Nintendo used this morning’s Direct to give Switch 2 its first real collector finish, timed to forty years of The Legend of Zelda. Officially called Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition, the system arrives October 29, one week before the Ocarina of Time remake on November 5.
Nintendo used its Zelda 40th anniversary Direct today to show the first real gameplay of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, confirming a November 5 launch exclusively on Switch 2. Eiji Aonuma walked through the opening hours in Kokiri Forest, presenting the project as a faithful interpretation built with modern tools rather than a loose retelling.
Retroid spent years circling the two-screen idea without building a complete machine around it. A $69 clip-on AMOLED panel already existed for the Pocket 5, Pocket Mini, and Pocket 4 Pro, and the Flip line already folded closed like a book. On September 7 the company stopped circling. A 20-second clip posted with the line “Two Screens.. One Pocket.” showed a dim silhouette of a clamshell handheld and almost nothing else. Hours later official renders arrived during the Retro Handhelds Podcast, and that outline became a real object with a real name: Retroid Pocket Duo.
Rockstar never released Grand Theft Auto V for Nintendo hardware. M0jso and Paralympics Productions completed the project in late August 2026 with an unofficial homebrew build that runs directly on the original Switch. The code from the 2023 leak of GTA V Legacy version 1.0.2699, the same lineage used on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, has been modified and recompiled for ARM, allowing the Tegra X1 and Horizon OS to treat it as a regular title. There is no Linux layer in the middle, no Android wrapper that interprets calls, no stream from another system, and the game is read in the CPU’s native language.
Levi Maaia’s NES Radar takes an original Nintendo Entertainment System and treats it like a small air traffic display. You load a custom ROM on a flash cartridge, type any airport’s four-letter ICAO code with a controller in port one, press Start, and real aircraft flying near that field appear as moving 8-bit targets on the television. It works for airports worldwide. A quiet local strip shows a few arrivals lining up. A code like KLAX fills the ring in a hurry.
Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did.
Super Buzzy Yoshi released Super Mario World Remastered for PC this week as a custom campaign inside Super Mario Bros. X2. You install SMBX2 Beta 5 Patch 4 first, drop the project folder into the worlds directory, then pick the campaign from the list on the left side of the screen. The entire adventure runs through the fan engine, thus no standalone executable or ROM file is required.
Original Nintendo DS handhelds from late 2004 keep showing up in repair piles with hinges that snap and shells that powder at the slightest pressure. Owners who stored one in a drawer for two decades often discover the damage only when they try to swap a dead screen or tighten a loose screw. Metallic paint Nintendo laid over the ABS plastic appears to be reacting with the case itself. Yellow or greenish stains leak out around edges, button wells, and hinge roots. Force the clamshell open and the plastic flakes instead of flexing.
When Donkey Kong 64 debuted on the Nintendo 64 in 1999, Rare sent five Kongs on a quest to reclaim a thousand Golden Bananas, recover stolen riches, and deliver one very long rap. Rainchus, Ballaam, Killklli, Umed, and collaborators released DK64 Rekongpiled, also known as DK64 Recompiled, and the campaign now runs as a regular Windows, Linux, or macOS. You still need to point the software at a legally dumped US cartridge image. No assets are included with the download. After selecting one file, the original game code is executed on your computer rather than within an emulator.
Seven years after Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle left theaters in Japan and later arrived on Netflix, a new feature-length animated film is finally on the calendar. Pokémon: Wild Card was unveiled August 30, 2026, during the closing ceremony of the Pokémon World Championships at Chase Center in San Francisco, then confirmed on Pokémon.com the same weekend.