Link's Awakening's AI-Built PC Port Is a Steam Deck Gamble
A static recompilation of the Nintendo Switch remake of Link's Awakening is now running on PC, and the developer behind it is refreshingly blunt…
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New Ocarina of Time Glitch Works on Switch — and Retro Handhelds
Speedrunners have spent 28 years memorizing every pixel of Ocarina of Time, and the game just handed them a new one. A glitch surfaced by veteran…
Why Haunted Chocolatier's Delay Is Good News for Handhelds
Eric Barone built the original Stardew Valley as a "dumb little project" to sharpen his programming while he couldn't find a job. A decade later he's…
Both Shin chan Cozy Sims Head to Switch 2 in March 2027
March 4, 2027 is a strangely long wait for two games you can already launch on your Switch 2 right now. That's the detail that matters in this week's…
Wario's Game Boy Roots Explain Nintendo's Musk Discomfort
Elon Musk in a Wario suit should have been forgotten by lunchtime. Five years later, two of Nintendo's former senior marketing leads are still…
Nintendo Won't Kill Switch 2 Carts — But Game Key Cards Loom
Nintendo has spent the past two years watching the rest of the industry set fire to its disc drives and has decided to keep selling cartridges. Asked…
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Is Switch Online's Next Trial
The Switch Online Game Trial treadmill keeps rolling, and this month's freebie is not a throwaway indie sampler: Hello Kitty Island Adventure goes…
Muramasa Revenant Blades Is a Handheld Metroidvania Dream
The best moment in Nintendo Everything's 90-minute Muramasa: Revenant Blades preview isn't a boss kill — it's the part where the writer takes a wrong…
Prime Day's $30 Power Bank Refills a Steam Deck 1.5 Times
Twenty-nine dollars for 74 watt-hours only looks like a boring number until you're forty minutes into a flight with a Steam Deck sitting at 12…
Kirby's Quiet Famitsu Debut Is Bigger Than It Looks
The number at the bottom of this week's Famitsu most wanted chart is doing the quiet work: Kirby and the World Beyond enters at #26 in its first…
Platinum Teases More Bayonetta — Switch 2 Is Its Only Path
PlatinumGames wants to keep making Bayonetta games. It just no longer employs most of the people who made the first three. That's the gap between…
Nintendo eShop Downtime Will Block Prepaid Cards on Oct 19
Nintendo's maintenance schedule for the week of October 4 contains exactly one entry, and it is narrower than the headline suggests. On October 19…