Matt Hickey / The Daily:
Nintendo stealthily building app store for its next-gen console  —  Nintendo’s next game console, the Wii U, is months away from launch, but its touchscreen controller is already turning heads — and The Daily has learned that Nintendo plans to implement a full-blown app store for the system.

Electronista:
Nintendo rumored encouraging iOS to Wii U ports, e-reading  —  Nintendo Wii U may lure iOS devs and e-books  —  Quickly coming on the heels of talk of a full Wii U app store is a rumor late Monday of Nintendo actively courting iOS developers.  The gaming giant was said by a developer talking …

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Hulu Plus Comes to the Wii Today, Nintendo 3DS Later this Year  —  Remember the Nintendo Wii?  That game console you really wanted to have a few years ago but that is now gathering dust somewhere in your attic?  Neither did we, until we heard about the launch of Hulu Plus for the Wii today.

David McIntosh / TechCrunch:
With TV Everywhere, It’s All About Discovery  —  200 million connected TV devices will cumulatively ship in the next 18 months, and combined with Xbox (23 million+ Live customers), PS3, Wii, and devices like Apple TV and Roku, about 300 million Connected TVs will be in living rooms in the next 18 months.

Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
Shooting Down Rumors, Valve Says They’re Not Making a Game Console Any Time Soon  —  Delay those dreams of a Steam Box competing with a PlayStation, Xbox or Wii.  Valve Software is not making a gaming console in the near future and that the various rumors swirling around don’t add up to them making their own set-top box.

Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nielsen report finds 56 percent of US households have a modern game console, total gaming time up seven percent  —  Nielsen is out with its annual survey of video game use in the US today, and it’s found that gaming continues to be on the rise across the board.