Toward the end of April, the Wii Homebrew Channel – an essential tool for anybody who's ever modded their Wii – ceased development and had its GitHub repository archived. With accusations of stolen ...

TL;DR: The Homebrew Channel, essential for running custom Wii software, has ceased development due to potential copyright infringement involving stolen Nintendo SDK and RTEMS code within its core ...

It could make it harder to load software on future hacked Wiis. It could make it harder to load software on future hacked Wiis. HBC is a central piece of the Wii homebrew community, serving as a ...

Terrence Smith has been writing since his early childhood, when he wrote his first fanfiction: Taz in the Temple of Cyber Power. He has grown up on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles in the ...

There were few news outlets that didn’t feature former US president Donald J. Trump’s mug shot from his indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, after its Thursday afternoon release. Full disclosure: I ...

After months of service outages, Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop are back online. Nintendo’s two virtual marketplace services went down in March of this year. In a statement to Kotaku on the ...

The Wii Shop Channel music is iconic. It’s a meme of itself, with the first hits conjuring up images of Drake dancing in Hotline Bling and the robotic machinations of Mr. Krabs, but for good reason.

Google Chrome extensions are useful for a variety of reasons, from keeping your password manager a click away to checking your grammar. Some extensions, though, really think outside of the box, like ...

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It's a sad day for loyal fans of the original Wii. As promised back in 2017, Nintendo is closing down the Wii Shop Channel as of January 30th. It lost much of its usefulness after March 26th of last ...

After 12 years of operation, Nintendo is shutting down the Wii Shop Channel. The service will officially be discontinued today, January 30, after which point it will no longer be possible to purchase ...

Pour one out for the Wii Shop Channel, as today it will be shutting down for good. It had a great run, but after over a decade of being operational, the Wii's venerable service that brought us one of ...