Nintendo has today ramped up the hype for the event by revealing the competitors, hosts and rules, but also an exciting peripheral that will allow players to use GameCube controllers on the Wii U.

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday we reported that the forthcoming GameCube controller adapter — being launched alongside Super Smash Bros. for Wii U — would allow the classic pad to be ...

Wii U was originally intended to support GameCube controllers but the feature was torn from its innards, like the heart from so many of the console fan's chests. But fear not, because a new ...

Nintendo’s own official Gamecube controllers don’t work with the Wii U without a special adapter, and when they do, the only game they can be used to play is Super Smash Bros. Fortunately ...

Early this year it was rumoured that PDP was creating new Wii U GameCube Controllers for the upcoming Super Smash Bros game launching on the Nintendo Wii U console. Now during E3, the new Wii U ...

Nintendo kept the native GameCube controller support for the Wii (at least at first) before moving on from the controller with the Wii U. Or so we thought. The cool thing about connecting GameCube ...

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This will let players play the Smash Bros. using GameCube controllers on the Wii U. Aside from the tweet, no other details have been divulged regarding the adapter. There's still no word on ...