If you have an old Nintendo Wii U GamePad lying around, you can use it as a controller with your Windows PC by folowing a few simple instructions.

The Wii U is in line for its time in the hacker spotlight, with the Wii U GamePad hacked to work as a simple PC controller. The modder, Chris Manning, learned the GamePad's input by connecting the Wii ...

The Wii U GamePad has been reverse engineered to stream PC games. Hackers presented their findings during this year's Chaos Communication Congress, in a talk titled 'Reverse engineering the Wii U ...

Most video game fans aren’t using their Wii U consoles as much as they did a few years ago — if they ever bought the system at all — but Nintendo’s underwhelming machine still has a few uses, it seems ...

Playing an emulated Wii U game can now be a much more authentic experience thanks to the existence of the Steam Deck and a team of dedicated fans. Some old gaming systems are harder to emulate than ...

One of the main distinguishing features the Wii U has from its predecessor is the gamepad. Nintendo seemed to have decided that two screen gaming was so successful on the DS (and later the 3DS) that ...

Nintendo’s Wii U will finally be released in less than month! In preparation, let’s examine one of the most overlooked but important features — the controllers. Nintendo has been touting the ability ...

While the Switch 2 shows that Nintendo learned its lesson with the Wii U, the Wii U itself was a failure. 13.56 million Wii U units were sold throughout the console's lifetime. While that sounds like ...