The Biggest Gaming News For February 19, 2022
We finally made it to the weekend, but since the news never sleeps, we still had plenty to work on today. We found out that Nintendo has been planning to close the Wii U eShop for at least eight years now, Microsoft offered to buy Activision Blizzard a mere three days after the abuse allegations came to light, and Vanity Fair put the Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West character Aloy on the cover of their magazine this month. Fans of the Halo franchise are also going to be seeing Master Chief’s face for the first time in the upcoming TV show.
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Nintendo has apparently been planning to put the Wii U and 3DS behind them for quite some time. The news broke today that both consoles have been on their last legs for at least eight years now. The company previously announced that "it will no longer be possible to make purchases in the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U system and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems” beginning in March, 2023. While the official statement says that purchases will be accessible for the “foreseeable future," sources recently mentioned that Nintendo is going to “give notice in 2023 that the server will be shut down after a time. People will lose their games if something happens to their Wii U or the drive they have their games on." This prompted the Video Game History Foundation to put out a scathing critique, saying the plans were "actively destructive to video game history.”
Microsoft said they would be carefully monitoring the activities at Activision Blizzard. People across the board interpreted this to mean that Microsoft would be distancing itself from the company. The opposite turned out to be true. Microsoft went on to announce the
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