When Mario Kart made its way to the DS, Nintendo included a mission mode. Nearly ten years after its release, someone has discovered an unfinished mission mode in Mario Kart Wii.

While everyone waits for Virtual Console games to come over to the Switch, there's still plenty of classic Wii games to enjoy. So after having a first crack, one user has returned to create their perfect, portable Wii.

Fifth grader Hibiki Sakai sent Nintendo a letter, thanking the company for its Rhythm Heaven games. Hibiki is blind, and these music titles are the only games he's really able to play. Nintendo replied to his letter in a most thoughtful way.

Genyo Takeda has worked on some of Nintendo's most iconic games, consoles and tech. As of this June, the 68-year-old is stepping down.

The Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 330,637 units in its first three days on sale in Japan.

Including last October's release of Just Dance 2017, 1262 games have been released in North America for the Nintendo Wii since its late 2006 launch. NintendoAge forum user NintendoTwizer has collected all of them.

Even when it was released in 2006, Nintendo's Wii games were already looking a little past it, stuck as they were in the muddy depths of standard-definition resolution and on relatively old hardware. In 2017, they're way past it.

Not to worry. If you'd rather play your Wii games in stunning HD - and trust us, they look stunning - then all you need to do is follow these simple steps.

With Nintendo about to unveil more details about the Switch in a few days, here's a reminder of how they advertised all their other consoles to the world.

Two studies from Neuroscience Research Australia using "Wii-based Movement Therapy" on stroke patients have revealed extraordinary results.

Not only does playing Wii actually restore upper limb mobility, but it also improves lower limb movement and cardiovascular health.

Kanye West is a mercurial man: Remember how many times he changed the title for the album that eventually became The Life of Pablo? Earlier this year, he claimed that his next album would be titled "Turbo Grafx 16". Judging from some recent Instagram posts, it's possible that Kanye wasn't joking about hitting some "super nerd vibes" with his follow-up.

You've never seen Genji like this. Louis, a 24-year-old game developer in Texas, recently rigged up a sword-shaped Wiimote to control Genji's sword in Overwatch.

A while back, speedrunners believed that they had achieved a near-perfect completion time for Ocarina of Time, that nobody could beat the game much faster than 18 minutes and 10 seconds. Two years later, the time has been shaved down to an incredible 17 minutes and 24 seconds, and it's all because of a trick that lets runners pull a bottle from nowhere.

Nintendo has a bit of a track record when it comes to big reveals, and early this morning they'll be releasing the first official teaser for their upcoming console. So to get ready for that, here's a look back at some of Nintendo's biggest unveilings.

Until recently, the folks behind the popular Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator software have been able to run every GameCube game in the official Nintendo library save one: Star Wars: Clone Wars. Now it finally works.

Super Paper Mario has the typical hallmarks of a 2D Mario platformer — stomp on enemies, jump over pits, and avoid obstacles — but failing carries minuscule stakes. If you fall into a pit, you only lose a single health point. The enemies are weak, by and large, and powerups and Shroom Shakes are plentiful. That it's nearly impossible to die in the game garnered a lot of criticism in 2007, with players claiming Super Paper Mario made too many concessions to young children and was 'dumbed down' for the masses.

But this criticism misses the point: Super Paper Mario is not a platformer so much as a role-playing game, a meta-commentary about acknowledging gaming's past alongside its present.

It's not uncommon for home and handheld consoles to get a drastic makeover in the years after their launch. Sometimes even after they have begun playing second fiddle to a new more powerful sibling.

An Honest Trailer for Ghostbusters? No, no, not the new Ghostbusters, but the 2009 video game that featured the original cast. It was unique in that writers Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd (who played Egon Spengler and Ray Stantz respectively), had a hand in the production and script, making the game an official instalment — of sorts.

Japanese game magazine Famitsu is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the publication polled readers, asking them which games were most memorable on consoles ranging from the Famicom to the PS4.

Travis Touchdown saves the game by taking a dump. And Jack? Jack... he's a psycho maniac. The irreverent humour of No More Heroes and MadWorld is just so bad, it's good.