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Nintendo of America and Nintendo Europe has announced that Mario Kart 8 will be arriving on the Wii U on May 30th. The company also revealed that all seven Koopalings are playable for the first time ever in Mario Kart 8.

Watch out there are apes about in the new Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze trailer. DK’s release on the Wii U is just over a week away and it looks like he can’t wait to make a big return. The new trailer promises some fantastic action-packed platform levels, so don’t miss out – DK will not be pleased. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze hits the Wii U on February 21 in North America and Europe.

The fiber is barely in the ground and already Google is thinking about next generation gigabit networks, with the advertising company researching ways to get to 10Gbps on its Google Fiber networks. Its CFO Patrick Pichette spoke at an investor conference this week and noted the efforts while telling people to stay tuned about future network expansions. google’s need for speed isn’t exclusive to it. Verizon has been testing 10 Gbps using XG PON technology since 2010.

The European Nintendo Direct has confirmed to Yoshi fans that a special 3DS XL – which was spotted earlier this month – featuring the green dinosaur will be released to coincide with Yoshi’s New Island on the Nintendo 3DS. The green 3DS XL comes with an image of Yoshi running with the trademark green and white egg by his side. However, Yoshi’s New Island will not be included and will need to be purchased separately.

The EU’s highest court this week ruled that one website can link to another without fearing a copyright lawsuit. The ruling, which came in response to a complaint from Swedish journalists, reflects a growing sophistication in Europe about how the internet works, and was hailed with a sigh of relief by legal scholars.

In the ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union explained that links — like this one about where to watch the Olympics — don’t deprive authors of their right to make their work available to the public. The reason is that the author has made the work public in the first place, and all a link does is act as a pointer to the work. For practical purposes, this means that someone who makes a site about the Olympics doesn’t have to ask my colleague Janko for permission to include that link to his story.

NES Remix 2: This second instalment of the mashup of classic Nintendo games features challenges from later NES games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Kirby’s Adventure and Metroid. Just like NES Remix, the sequel includes stages from the original games with new challenges, as well as modified stages that introduce new elements. The game is scheduled to launch on Nintendo eShop for Wii U on 25^th April. Best of all, it includes a free bonus game:

Nintendo detailed major announcements for its Wii U home console and Nintendo 3DS portable system in the first Nintendo Direct of 2014. Launch dates and details for multiple games were revealed, including new characters in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, and Mario Kart 8 for Wii U. Nintendo also announced specifics about the addition of Game Boy Advance games to the Wii U Virtual Console service. NES Remix 2 is also on the way, complete with a Luigi-themed surprise. And a pair of games coming to the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS – Steel Diver: Sub Wars and Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball – demonstrate unique new ways for players to acquire add-on content. To view the Nintendo Direct in its entirety, visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct.

Wii U News

• Mario Kart 8: For the first time ever in any game, all of Bowser’s seven Koopalings are playable characters…