And TVii goes off the air for good.

A new system menu update has launched for the Wii U.

The most noticeable change in the update is the removal of the TVii icon following the service's discontinuation last week, according to the update's patch notes, though the usual "improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience".

A chance to create new squidkids is coming this weekend

The Splatoon Testfire will be returning for another round of turf wars this weekend in North America and this coming week for Europe.

North America will have three sessions for the Testfire, from August 21 to 23 (Friday to Sunday). Each session will be two hours from 3 - 5 p.m. Pacific time (6 - 8 p.m. ET). Europe's sessions are as follows:

The developers of Lords of Shadow wanted to take a crack at the front end of "Metroidvania".

The developers of the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow series appear to have been proposing a 3DS and Wii U shooter in the Metroid universe.

First reported by NintendoLife in association with Tamaki (contributor to Unseen64), the Spanish developer was hiring talent from other companies to create a... Read more...

Dinosaurs rule the day while squidkids continue to impress.

The NPD Group has announced their retail results for July in the United States, with a limited Nintendo presence.

On the software front, Lego Jurassic World was the best selling game in all combined formats, barring system bundles which would have given the win to Batman: Arkham Knight. From July... Read more...

And also announces one of today's Wii U downloads is crossing to the New 3DS.

A recent appearance by two Nintendo develppers at the 2015 Unity Europe conference has given some details on the use of Unity on the 3DS, including a game announcement.

Irena Cranston from Nintendo of America and Ed Valiente from Nintendo Europe, two of Nintendo's Unity specialists spoke at the... Read more...

Atlus bringing it once again with their physical releases.

Atlus has prepared another launch edition for a 3DS game, this time for The Legend of Legacy.

Launch editions of the game will include a hardcover 40 page artbook and a 10-track sampler CD, plus a protective case that will make the box measure 6" x 8". This edition will be available for preorders as well as a supply at the game's launch.

One of the strongest Pokémon is now available to many for free.

A Shiny Rayquaza is being distributed to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire owners.

This Rayquaza comes with the move Dragon Ascent which allows Rayquaza to Mega Evolve making it easily one of the most powerful Pokémon in the history of the franchise. Details on how to obtain this Legendary Pokémon in each region can be seen below.

The only recorded case of someone not getting splatted by the Rainmaker happened at SplatKingdom IX.

Tomorrow night's Splatoon update, the first since 2.0, will add the Rainmaker mode to the ranked battles.

The objective is similar to Tower Control, in that the teams are trying to bring an object to the team's goal, but the titular Rainmaker allows the person holding it to fire Inkzooka shots.... Read more...

Sadly, we don't get the U.S. Acres DLC this week.

Despite 3D Gunstar Heroes being delayed a week, and Freedom Planet being delayed due to a hard lock bug in the final build for retail Wii Us, there's still a decent amount of new content for the stores this week. The headliners are the second week of Nintendo's "games for hardcore gamers in August" Virtual Console program with Pandora's Tower, and the first game published by Unity in the form of Wind-Up Knight 2.

If you take the plunge digitally, you'll still get the design booklet.

Super Mario Maker is now up on the Wii U eShop for digital preload, and a new option has become available for those who want the booklet that comes with physical copies.

After prebuying the game - note payment of the $59.99 (US)/$69.99 (Canadian) +tax upfront would be required - a toll free number... Read more...

The last of the Rainfall trio has a few firsts associated with it

Nintendo's game listing has updated to announce tomorrow's Virtual Console release will be Pandora's Tower.

The late-era Wii game, the last of the three major Operation Rainfall games, originally came out in North America in April of 2013. The game will launch on Wii U with tomorrow's eShop update at $19.99 US or $24.99 Canadian.

Sound blocks, available tools and Amiibo confirmation

Nintendo has released a video showing off Super Mario Maker, including some features that have been unannounced.

Among the tools announced were a frog that can trigger sound and graphical effects, and the GamePad's microphone can be used to record new effects (such as "Happy birthday"). Shaking... Read more...

Both pushed back to fix bugs.

A couple of Wii U titles and a 3DS game have been delayed in order to resolve nagging issues.

Freedom Planet, which was originally slated to come out this week, has been delayed to resolve an issue that caused system hard locks on retail Wii Us. GalaxyTrail is hoping for a quick patch before a new release date is announced, though the forum post lists August 20.

Game known to be a vector for unauthorized software.

The VD-Dev shooter Ironfall Invasion has been temporarily removed from the eShop in Europe and North America.

The pulldown was announced by Nintendo of Europe on their Twitter feed earlier today:

IRONFALL Invasion is temporarily unavailable on Nintendo eShop. Apologies for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for more information.

NWR has it first - Runbow launches before the end of the month!

We have a release date and price for Runbow straight from 13AM Games.

The nine-player runner with the all-star casts of Nintendo indie characters will launch on the eShop in North America August 27 (three weeks from Thursday). The game will launch at $14.99, with a 15% discount ($2.25 off) if the Nindie @ Home demo was downloaded during E3 week.

The oddest crossover since Archie met KISS.

The latest issue of CoroCoro magazine has announced Level 5's first Wii U title and the newest game in the ungodly popular Yokai Watch series for Japan in association with Ubisoft.

Yokai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Edition features the characters dancing to the music from Yokai Watch. No pricing or release date has been announced for the title in Japan, and its odds of localization are infinitesimal at best.

SquareEnix would be all over the place if they could get concrete details

Following SquareEnix's announcements of NX support being considered for Dragon Quest X and XI, the RPG titan may be considering bringing their other key MMO to the platform as well.

In an interview with DualShockers, producer Naoki Yoshida expressed interest in releasing Final Fantasy 14 on the... Read more...

Some of the Wii U's finest, unreleased characters and even code mascots join the all-star race.

The cast of characters previously announced for 13AM's Runbow has expanded even further with nine new characters joining the fray.

As first reported by NintendoLife, the nine characters cross the Nintendo indie spectrum, including characters from 3DS exclusives and even unreleased games.

The full list of newcomers is as follows:

Sheer love of marshmallows prevents hot dogs from mustarding victory.

Results from this weekend's Splatfest action, the first to be held under the new Splatfest weighting rules from the version 2 update:

Marshmallows 256, Hot Dogs 244 At Camp Triggerfish, the campfire duel was settled early as the Marshmallow side took a 64-36 win in the popularity poll. Team Hot Dog fought valiantly, as the Marshmallow side was run to exhaustion by a succession of civil turf wars, but the comeback fell 2% short at 52-48.

The truth stings a little bit, especially when it comes to Captain Rainbow.

A recent interview with a Nintendo Treehouse localization writer has shed more light on what goes into a game localization.

Chris Pranger of the Treehouse appeared on a recent episode of the Part Time Gamers podcast and discussed the process of localization, including the cost decisions that Nintendo of America has to make.