If you have an old Nintendo Wii U GamePad lying around, you can use it as a controller with your Windows PC by folowing a few simple instructions.

It’s not hard to see where the problem comes from. Nintendo has always favoured first-party games and its own cheaper, if quirky, technology, making it all but impossible to play the latest ...

While the Switch 2 shows that Nintendo learned its lesson with the Wii U, the Wii U itself was a failure. 13.56 million Wii U units were sold throughout the console's lifetime. While that sounds like ...

The Wii U GamePad has been reverse-engineered by the developers behind the Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator, with the controller's functions completely simulated on PC. When we heard the news on Twitter, ...

One of the main distinguishing features the Wii U has from its predecessor is the gamepad. Nintendo seemed to have decided that two screen gaming was so successful on the DS (and later the 3DS) that ...

Forget Nintendo’s lackluster January console sales, forget worries about dwindling interest in game consoles in general — Shigeru Miyamoto clearly believes in the Wii U, and he’s thinking well beyond ...

Nintendo’s rebranded Wii U GamePad is the best controller the company has ever designed, the CEO of Gearbox has claimed. In an interview with Gamasutra, Randy Pitchford said the pad was perfectly ...

Nintendo's press event started strong with discussion on the new Gamepad and the features that will be present on the Wii U. While Sunday brought forth a few details on the new Miiverse that will be ...

The ill-fated Nintendo Wii U was the Japanese giant’s shortest-lived home console. With a production run of just under five years and only managing to sell just 13.5 million units globally, it’s ...

It will be possible for players to turn their TV sets on and off with the peripheral, eliminating the need to have both the controller and TV remote to hand. Nintendo previously demonstrated how the ...

One of the best pieces of intel we got from Nintendo's surprisingly tight-lipped E3 press briefing was the news that the Wii U will allow for games that use multiple gamepad controllers. Now, Nintendo ...