During today's Nintendo Direct, it was confirmed by Saturo Iwata that the Virtual Console will be launching on Wii U after the Spring update (we first heard about it a few days ago). The full line-up will take a while to become available, but a choice selection of classic Nintendo games (NES and SNES) will be released in the wake of the service's launch, and GBA titles are also coming.

If you already have a game on the Wii, and you would like to transfer it to your Wii U, you can, or you download it again at a discounted price. The original Wii games will continue to work, but for those who want to play their game on the Wii U GamePad, you'll have to purchase it again (albeit at the reduced price).

Balloon Fight, a game that Iwata worked on personally, will be the first title to arrive on the service.

Another announcement from Nintendo Direct, and it's an exciting one. Nintendo are set to release a double helping of Zelda games for Wii U.

Saturo Iwata and Eiji Aonuma revealed that the team are re-thinking the conventions of Zelda, and are planning a new game to designed to challenge player expectations.

We didn't get a look at the new game, nor did we get a title, so we can assume it's a long way off completion. The keep us busy in the meantime, Nintendo are preparing to release a HD update of the tenth game in the series, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

During the presentation it was explained that their aim with The Wind Waker is to: tune up the overall game experience and upgrade graphics. We'll also be able to play off-TV, and it'll be Miiverse compatible. Fantastic news for Zelda fans.

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Steam has finally gone into beta on Linux, the open source operating system. Over 60,000 people applied to participate in the beta, with the first round of emails sent out to potential beta testers last week.

"This is a huge milestone in the development of PC gaming," said Valve's Gabe Newell. "Steam users have been asking us to support gaming on Linux. We're happy to bring rich forms of entertainment and our community of users to this open, customer-friendly platform."

Gamers using the OS will have access to over 20 titles, inclduing Team Fortress 2, World of Goo and Frozen Synapse. Head this way for the complete list of games available to Linux users on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=linux#os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1

Ubisoft announced some positive results for their most recent quarter with full year projections being moved up slightly. One of the main reasons for this was healthy sales of Assassin's Creed III that has seen an estimated 3.5 million copies sold through to date, doubling the initial sales of Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Meanwhile, the Just Dance franchise is in "double digit decline" as Just Dance 4 fails to reach the numbers of Just Dance 3, but the performance is in line with what Ubisoft expected.