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If You Put Your Wii U GamePad in a Blender, Yes, Nintendo Will Sell You a Replacement
On one hand, this seems like a painfully obvious thing: Broken hardware typically can be replaced under warranty or through the manufacturer for a fee, and the Nintendo GamePad is hardware. On the other hand, it’s a controller, and Nintendo is deliberately not selling GamePads on their own in North America. So that raises the…
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Someone’s Already Trying to Sell a Wii U on eBay. For $900.
Remember when the Wii launched? What were those things going for on the gray market, like $700 or something? Actually, yeah—Fahey did this analysis after the 2006 holidays and found the price, for a pre-order listing on eBay, spiked at $707, almost three times its MSRP. (That’s not counting this jackhole, trying to sell one…
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Francis is Back, and He is Pissed at the Wii U
Francis, the vox fulminati of gamers worldwide, has contemplated yesterday’s formal unveiling of the Wii U’s price, specifications and launch lineup and offers this cogent analysis of its shortcomings, plus the phonetic pronunciation of “TVii.” It evidently has less memory than his nonexistent wristwatch. And, in probably the most humiliating slam, “Apple charges less for…
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Balloon Trip Breeze Brings Back Memories of the NES’ Balloon Fight
What I recall of Balloon Fight on the Nintendo Entertainment System was whaling on one button or the other to maintain altitude, to the point of thumb cramps. Balloon Trip Breeze, the Wii U’s obvious homage to the NES classic, relies on the use of a stylus with the Wii U GamePad’s touchscreen, as Kotaku‘s…
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Hold Off On Trading In Your Wii for a Wii U If You Want To Be Able to Keep Your Data
GameStop may be offering a trade-in bonus on your Wii right now, but you may not want to rush to trade up for a shiny new Wii U just yet. Wii owners will be able to transfer their data—including saved games and purchased Wii Shop titles—from their Wii to their new Wii U, but there’s…
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Draw Up Some Crazy Plays in the Dirt with the Wii U’s GamePad in Madden NFL 13
The basic pass routes in American football are, off the top of my head, the post, the slant, the square-out, the streak, the hook and the wheel. Here, Kotaku‘s Jason Schreier introduces us to the Curli-Cue, the Zag-Zig-Zag, the One-Oar-In-the-Water and the Field Sobriety Test, all of which were improvised routes using the touchscreen feature…
By Owen Good
