Mini game controllers with buttons and joysticks that move like the real deal are a pretty cool keychain and fidget toy, but at least for some of us there’s this …read more

Since the launch of the Nintendo Music app in October 2024, Nintendo has consistently been expanding the service (free for Nintendo Switch Online members) with more soundtracks from their extensive library of games. Today’s update includes an hour of music from the 2001 GameCube classic, Pikmin, with 33 total tracks added. The only curated playlist… Read More »Pikmin added to Nintendo…

It isn’t just Nintendo celebrating The Legend of Zelda’s 40th anniversary this year, as a group of independent developers collectively called TwilitRealm has released a PC and mobile port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 entry in the classic RPG series made for the GameCube (for which it was the last first-party game) and […]

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This post isn’t about any game specifically, but rather about an awesome Substack blog, Rings of Saturn, that examines the code of games from what they call the “32-bit era,” around the time of the Saturn to the Playstation 2, which includes the original Playstation, Dreamcast, and Gamecube, with a handful for the Nintendo 64, … Continue reading "Rings of Saturn"

If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. But there is a more interesting way to …read more

Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser …read more

Nintendo has released an update for the GameCube app for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members bringing the software to Version 1.6.1. The Kyoto-based company says that the fix resolves the issue with Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, which sometimes meant that the beloved game would forcibly close during gameplay. The update data Ver.… Read More »GameCube app updated to Version 1.6.1 and…

I am late with today's selection of Pook-Emu Bee Links, but we need not allow a backlog to form (I have enough backlog as it is).

1. The Eerie 'Blood' Moon Will Grace the Night Sky Next Week, Thanks to a Total Lunar Eclipse (Margherita Bassi for Smithsonian Magazine. February 27, 2026.)

Sounds neat but New York City does not look like the best place to see it (but I did see the recent…

The Nintendo Treehouse may not be as friendly as it seems during its livestreams, as video game developer Denis Dyack shared an experience he had with the group over 20 years ago – and that may be a good thing. The Nintendo Treehouse is Nintendo of America’s product development division, created in the ‘90s to […]

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While modern game consoles are certainly excellent, there is still something magical about the consoles of yore. So why not bring the magical nostalgia of a GameCube controller to the …read more