Latest WiiWareWave News

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Happy Moon Rabbit Day!

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Today is a day to gather with your family and enjoy candies, eggs, and a special meal, as well as being a very holy day for devout followers of several different religions, but regardless of why you celebrate the day, we all know the real star is the Easter bunny! So we hope you enjoy the day and enjoy...

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WiiWareWave Has Been Upgraded Once Again!

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We have implemented a few new features on our website today! The first is the follow function, which keeps you updated on posts that your followed members make on our website as seen below!

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Round 2 At Last!

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Round 2 of our Game of The Year poll for 2022 begins today! The top 2 games in each bracket will move on to the semi-finals! Be sure to vote for your favorite games and let the community know in our comments section below!

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Get READY TO Ruuuuuuuuuumble!

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It's December and that can only mean one thing here at WiiWareWave! That's right! It's time for our yearly Game of The Year poll! Which games are competing this week in Bracket A? An All-Star line-up for sure. There is a wild card this year in which Mario Kart 8: Deluxe is eligible due to the Booster...

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Emoji Mojo!
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Hello everyone! Amu here with a small update regarding two newly added emotes. The emotes while intended for staff can be used by anyone as long as it's not used to troll other members. The first is our broken emote:   and our second new...

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Unread?! Did I "Read" That Right!?

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We have just added a small nifty update to our PM system that allows members to mark messages as unread if they accidentally clicked into it, but didn't read it. The new button can be found in the screenshot below:

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10th Anniversary Celebration Mateys!

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We are celebrating our 10th anniversary in style! We have renewed our domain for another year as well as keeping our site ad-free for another 12 months! We've also added a plethora of new features and quality of life changes over the past few months! Here are the changes:

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A 10 Year Wave! Cowabunga!

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Today is the current WiiWareWave's 10th anniversary and we couldn't be more excited! We will share some exclusive features in celebration and look forward to hearing your thoughts and memories of our website over the past 10 years! We also added the new GIF and @ buttons to our message editor. Another recent feature we added was channel tabs and the ability...

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Please Follow Social Distancing And Stay Safe At Home If At All Possible!

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It's always sad to hear that the Corona Virus pandemic is costing many thousands of lives globally, but when it causes someone whom you know to pass away, it is by far more impactful. That said it pains me to say it, but our longtime moderator,

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Ad-Free Baybee!!!

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Update: @BlueRangerJack has pitched in so our ad-free weekend is now scheduled to last through October 15th of 2021! Woot!

Original Article: Starting today and...

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Hello WiiWareWavers! A new update has just launched on our website adding dozens of new emotes, a slight update to our new like system, and the launch of our PS5 forum! We hope you enjoy our new features! Be sure to let us know what you think in our comments section below!

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Eight Years of Riding The Wave!

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On March 11th 2011, WiiWareWave was officially launched and though we have a different host and so much has changed since we first started our community you, our loyal fans have stuck with us and allowed us to thrive, and what an honor it has been. We've even been called the friendliest video game site on the web because of the lack of trolling and flaming...

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All Aboard The Hype-Train!

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In celebration of WiiWareWave's 8th anniversary, we're holding a open contest for all members for a chance to win one of eight prizes! To enter just comment on this article "no spam please" and on March 11th at 12:00 PM Arizona Time we'll choose the winners! The prizes are as follows:

Grand Prize: $100 eShop code. ~Winner

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A Treasure Trove of Content!

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We've heard your cries for better coverage of The Legend of Zelda series which admittedly we're missing a ton of reviews for, so this year we'll be reviewing every Zelda Wii, Wii U, 3DS, and Virtual Console game that we've failed to review thus-far, but we'll also be publishing a new Zelda-themed...

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Time To Carve The Cheep Cheep Once Again!

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It's the fourth Thursday in November which means that it's Thanksgiving Day for those of you living in the states! We just wanted to give you, our loyal members proper thanks for continuing to support our community and hope that you have a wonderful holiday weekend!

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Seven Lucky Years!

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WiiWareWave has had it's fair share of ups and downs from its humble beginnings to the week in July 2012 when nearly 100 new members joined our community. And who can forget when we expanded to cover Sony games as well?

We've had more active times sure, but the fact that WiiWareWave has managed to not only survive, but continues to have an active following after seven long...

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Three Cheers For Our New Co-Owner From Down Under!

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We have a bit of exciting news to share with you all as our longtime news anchor, author, and funny guy @GeekyGamerZack has been promoted to co-owner of WiiWareWave giving him equal say in the operation of WiiWareWave as yours truly

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Mario Wave Say I'ma Fool!

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By popular demand WiiWareWave will be changing its name to Mario Wave and will be focusing solely on Mario related content! The name-change will go into effect on May 1st of this year! What do you think about this news? Also what's that burning denim smell? Be sure to let us know in our comments section below!

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A New Crew Member On-Board!

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Another new member has joined our reviewing staff today! Please give a warm welcome to @Pennsage who will be publishing his first review later this week! Be sure to welcome him in our comments section below and keep your eyes peeled for his upcoming review!

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WiiWareWave It!

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Dear Members,
 
We have waited so long and it is finally available! I am pleased to announce that Topic'it : the mobile application of our forum is now available on the AppleStore and the

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Welcome Aboard!

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It has been a longtime coming, but we have finally recruited a new reviewer for our website! @ryoutak has joined our crew as of tonight as a part of our reviewing team. His first project will be a review of a certain dragon-oriented JRPG for the PSP!

Be sure to check out

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Forumotioned...

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We have some unfortunate news for you guys. Our website has qualified for free domain renewal from our forum host at the last moment and we can't opt out and change our website's domain name, so we're stuck with the current community name and domain for at least another year. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Are you disappointed that we couldn't rename our website? Feel free...

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Our New Name Has Been Decided!

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Earlier this month we asked you, our loyal members what you wanted us to name our website now that we've become an all-encompassing video games press website and a good deal of you voted for TheGamerResort. We then sent a newsletter poll to the members who didn't participate in the preliminaries and out of 225 votes 198 were in favor of renaming WiiWareWave, TheGamerResort!...

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Simple And Sleek!

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WiiWareWave has received a new coat of paint and a slight redesign today! This will be our final website design before our domain moves and our site is renamed in late-October! What do you think of the modern and sleek new look of our website? As always be sure to let us know your thoughts in our comment section below!

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New Persona!

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We announced recently that we'll be getting a new domain name and would be dropping our WiiWareWave moniker next month and we're beginning that process right now! From today 8/7/17 until next Thursday 8/14/17 you, our loyal members can leave us your name suggestions in the comment section below and the three most suggested website names will be selected for a poll that will run from Friday...

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Weekly Update!

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Starting today we'll be publishing our Weekly Flash-forward article where we'll talk about upcoming reviews, news regarding site updates, and exclusive features. This article will only talk about things that will be happening in the future so there's no need to worry that this will replace site related news articles.

Okay, so we've finally finished the repairs and cleanup of our...

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Fresh New Name And Snazzy New Logo Needed!

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WiiWareWave is something of an enigma it started off strong and even competed with the likes of Nintendo Life and Nintendo Everything for a good long while, but sadly merely adding Sony coverage to our website wasn't enough to increase activity on our website.

We need to change our name because the Wii moniker is completely irrelevant and doesn't fit our...

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3DS Owners Rejoice!

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WiiWareWave's webhost, Forumotion has upgraded our forum version from PunBB to ModernBB a much more sleek and mobile friendly software, however with this comes incompatibility issues with many of our features. Also since the software is in Beta there are plenty of visual bugs, but our webhost should squash those relatively...

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Bye-bye Feature...

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As you may have noticed our recent posts module has been removed, but it was for a good reason as doing so has drastically decreased the loading time on our website! We'll try to add a fixed version of the feature at some point, but in the meantime be sure to let us know what you think in our comment...

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WiiWareWave Is Back And Better Than Ever!

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After several months of squashing severe bugs and issues on our website, WiiWareWave is now officially bug free and in full working order. The images are now visible on all devices, the user toolbar is now fully functional once again, and members can edit their messages on game...

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Holiday Cheer!

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The holiday season is a time that most people are busy visiting family, eating tasty treats, or opening awesome presents! That said we're very appreciative that you our loyal fans are...

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One Giant Leap!

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We have finally managed to fix our administration panel and the mobile version of our website in the past week, there's still a ton more fixes that need to be made before we can operate normally again, but we're hopeful that our site will be running normally again before the end of the year! We're so very sorry to you our loyal fans and the game developers that have been affected by these issues. Once we do have...

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Over A Dozen Games Up For Grabs!

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We're holding, perhaps our biggest contest ever this month for our European fans here at WiiWareWave! We have a grand total of 14 European Wii U and 3DS download codes to giveaway! The contest is open to all Europeans 16 and older. If you aren't a member yet don't worry, just register...

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Social New Features!

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Today we're rolling out, yet another major website update! We have begun to allow normal members to use our #hashtag system once again, however we have added another element to our #hashtag...

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In Celebration of A Huge Wii U Virtual Console Title Hitting The North American eShop Tomorrow!

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It's been awhile since we last updated our website in any way, but we have decided to change our website's theme to celebrate The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass' release on the North American Wii U eShop tomorrow!...

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Five Long Years And Counting!

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WiiWareWave started back on March 14th 2011,...

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Seriously Swole Freedom!

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We are proud to announce that round three of our Game of The Year User's Choice contest is going live right now! The two candidates, Shutshimi: Seriously Swole and Freedom Planet are among the cream of the crop when it comes to quality Wii U eShop titles. Voting for this round starts immediately...

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Convenient New Features!

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Today we're rolling out, yet another major website update! This update adds features that are not only convenient, but should save you a bunch of your spare time as well while browsing our website! The new features affect the desktop version of our website!

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A Solid Update For Staff!

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We've been updating our website frequently over the course of the past month adding tons of new content and features for you, our loyal members and now we've added some nice changes for our crew.

Here's the new features! The first of which actually improves the look of our blog entries...

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A Whole New Website?

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Most of you are likely noticing that I've been pretty much the only staff member writing news stories lately due to most of the other staff members leaving or becoming too busy to write articles with the except for our European reviewer

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The Best of The Best of 2015-2016!

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Every year we allow you, our loyal fans choose which game you think is deserving of the GoTY award and the user who correctly chooses the most tournament bracket winners correctly will win a prize! Our first round begins on Friday and a new round will occur each day! You only have a...

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A Major Overhaul For You!

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Our big 9.0.0 website update that we've been clamouring about for weeks is now live and there are some absolutely huge changes that have occurred as a result of our update. The most noteworthy change is to the mobile version of our website, but there's also plenty of new features in our desktop...

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The Battle of The DLC Vs. Indie!

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Our Game of The Year contest round two is now live! We apologize for the delay, but we were incredibly busy with updating our website! The second round choices for Game of The Year 2015/2016 are the multi-platform DLC Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows Vs. the Kemco 3DS JRPG Alphadia! Voting...

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A Few Minor To Moderate Additions For You!

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We've been extremely busy with updating WiiWareWave with fantastic new features leading up to our big 9.0.0 update that'll go live just in time for our website's 5th anniversary! Here's a rundown of the changes that have been implemented:

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The Battle of The Heavy-Hitters!

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Our Game of The Year contest is now live! The first round choices for Game of The Year 2015/2016 are among the biggest budget titles released on the Wii U and 3DS in the past year! The games are none-other than Xenoblade Chronicles X for the Wii U and Yokai Watch for the 3DS!

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Game-Changing Update!

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Just when you think that we're done updating our website, we roll out yet another site update! Our latest update adds a ton of new features and gives the mobile version of our website a welcome boost in functionality! Here's a rundown of all of the new features that have been added to our website:

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Follow-up Update!

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The third of our website updates that we reported would be occurring in the near future has now gone live! This update is chalk full of bug fixes and new features and visuals!

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Bug Fixes:

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Follow-up Update!

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We recently stated in our overview article of our version 8 website update that more new features were on the way and we're excited to announce the two new features that have been added to WiiWareWave as of today's version 8.1.0 update! The first of the new features will be very useful mainly to us...

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Major Changes Big & Small!

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WiiWareWave has changed alot over the years, some changes have been bigger than others. Today's update is definitely one of our bigger updates in the past year with a few great new features as well as an aesthetic overhaul with new colors and fonts throughout our website!

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Big Prizes Are Up For Grabs!



We are no strangers to holding contests on our website, but this week we've got our two biggest ones yet! First is our WiiWareWave Trivia Challenge in the comment section of this article tonight at 9:00pm PST/ 11:00pm EST. Answer 5 questions correctly for the chance to win some big prizes!

1st prize: Green Yarn Yoshi Amiibo, Inkling Squid Amiibo, and Lucina Amiibo.
2nd prize: Shulk Amiibo.
3rd prize: $10 eShop...