Nintendo is killing its Miiverse social network

Nintendo has announced that Miiverse, its quirky social network launched alongside the Wii U, is shutting down this year. The Wii U's chat app and TVii television service are also set to end alongside it on November 8th, though the announcement has only been made in Japan so far; the TVii service in the US was entirely separate and closed down over two years ago. Miiverse was most notable for the extraordinary hand-drawn posts that would filter into Wii U and 3DS games that supported the service...