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(Credit: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the entertainment features on Nintendo's new Wii U won't be available when the game machine goes on sale Sunday.

Nintendo didn't give a reason for the delay in Friday's news release. In a statement, the company said it wanted the service "to be the best possible experience for all consumers." Nintendo said it was still working to "make it available as soon as possible."

Marc Pincus (Getty Images)There are plenty of Zynga investors who want to cry after watching the stock has plunge so precipitously over the past year. One of those is CEO Marc Pincus.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple director Bill Campbell, who was brought in to advise the social giant's founder earlier this year as things imploded, says Pincus was "discouraged" and near tears over the state of the company.

Campbell's intervention came at the behest of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the company's biggest investors. Bing Gordon, a Kleiner Perkins partner and former chief creative officer at EA, was the first to notice the problems at the company starting in April.

New Super Mario Bros. U (Credit: Nintendo)A Nintendo system isn't really a Nintendo system until it's got a good Mario game. Lucky for the Wii U, that game's already here.

Reviewers have been playing plenty of New Super Mario Bros. U in advance of the Wii U's release this Sunday, and they're gobbling it down like a 1Up mushroom. Currently averaging an 85 at Metacritic, it's being heralded as a return to form for the series -- and  the first must-have game for the Wii U.

Got a gamer or two on your holiday shopping list? Of course you do, though knowing which games to get them can be a tricky proposition. A flood of video games are vying for your attention on retail shelves, making the buying process pretty daunting if you're not in the know — plus they probably grabbed a few games already.

We're here to help. Any of the following 12 games should keep the gamer in your life happy as a clam this holiday…or at least until the Next Big Thing comes out.

Activision's cash machine is still running smooth.

In what's becoming a November tradition, the latest Call of Duty game is once again the biggest entertainment launch of the year. Activision announced Friday that Black Ops II earned over $500 million in its first 24 hours.

"With first day sales of over half a billion dollars worldwide, we believe Call of Duty is the biggest entertainment launch of the year for the fourth year in a row," said Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. "Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Wars,' the two most successful movie franchises of all time."

(Credit: React! Games)One of the key players behind the biggest company in the world is going 8-bit.

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, is teaming up with legendary character actor Danny Trejo ("Machete") in an over-the-top action game for -- what else -- your iOS device.

It's called Danny Trejo's Vengeance : Woz with a Coz, and it's really happening.

Black Ops: Declassified (Credit: Activision)Call of Duty: Black Ops II is getting rave reviews, and judging by the early numbers we're hearing, it's bound to be another seriously big seller.

But not all versions of the game are created equal.

Just witness the stunning fall of Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified for the Playstation Vita. Intended as a companion to the console game, it was supposed to be one of the handheld's biggest holiday titles.

That's not going to happen, at least if critics have anything to say about it. Reviews of Declassified are just starting to roll in, but with an unthinkably low 29 rating on Metacritic, it's already got a shot at going down as the worst game of 2012.

Rockstar Games takes its sweet time developing its games, and apparently that methodical process extends to its gameplay trailers, too. A full year after unveiling the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, on Wednesday the company finally released a new trailer for the open-world extravaganza.

And while it's a little thin on gameplay, it's chock full of everything else. Crank up the volume and behold your next video game obsession: