After five months of being offline, Nintendo Wii U games Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon's online play feature are confirmed to be returning, per the company. Following the announcement, Nintendo has issued ...

Online play for these games was suspended back in March 2023, Nintendo said, so it’s been just a few months that people haven’t been able to play the games online. Games for the Wii U don’t exactly ...

Developer patchzy announced on July 15, 2026, that Mario Kart Wii will run natively on PC for the first time this August — not through an emulator, but through a technique called static recompilation ...

An ambitious YouTube user has created a playable version of Mario Kart within the confines of a single YouTube video, complete with multiple characters and fully ...

Nintendo has restored online play for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, and apologised to fans after taking the servers offline for five months to fix a security exploit. “In March 2023, Nintendo ...