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Nintendo has announced that the Wii U network servers for Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon will be restored on August 3 after being offline since March. Both games were taken offline earlier this year ...

Online services for Mario Kart 8 and the original Splatoon will return for Wii U players on August 3 after months of downtime. Nintendo announced that players can once again access multiplayer in a ...

EDIT: Nintendo of America have also officially tweeted about Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 getting Wii U online play back in their region. The systems were made available again by August 2, 2023, 9 AM PT, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a Wii U player, it’s natural to feel like your days are numbered. The Wii U shop went down not too long ago. Also, the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon lost their online access, ...

Nintendo has taken the Wii U versions of Mario Kart 8, and Splatoon offline as it attempts to fix a security issue “related to online play”. As spotted by VGC, the following maintenance post related ...

Considering the grand opening and closing that was the Wii U's lifespan, it's amazing we're even still talking about the console in 2023. Believe it or not, you can still fire the thing up and buy ...

The success of Mario Kart 8 has increased Wii U sales by a factor of four in the weeks since its launch. In an interview with Venturebeat, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime indicated that ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

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 ...