Nintendo released a five-minute overview trailer today for the Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, giving a straightforward tour of the remake ahead of its November 5 launch. The video walks through Link’s early journey as the boy without a fairy, then moves into the broader kingdom of Hyrule with its people, monsters, and dungeons before settling on the tools and additions that reshape how the adventure plays.
Beats and The Pokémon Company International announced a special-edition Beats Pill on October 13 that places artwork of Pikachu and Mimikyu across the speaker’s grill. The collaboration arrives during the franchise’s 30th anniversary period and follows a short teaser the previous day that simply stated “Time to catch something new.”
Anbernic just showed its RG DDS, a folding dual-screen handheld shaped closely after Nintendo’s classic 3DS clamshell. Open the lid and the top panel measures about 4.7 inches at a 5:3 ratio with 1200 by 720 resolution, while the bottom touchscreen sits near 4 inches at a 4:3 ratio with 960 by 720 resolution. Both custom IPS panels hit 300 pixels per inch and reach 500 nits of brightness, with matched color, refresh rate, and materials so the pair stays consistent in appearance.
James Channel recently got hold of a small box that promised the latest Windows system, complete with a keyboard, mouse, and enough software to turn any living room into a home office. What arrived instead was a Famiclone, one of the countless unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s original Family Computer that flooded markets across Asia and beyond during the late 1980s and 1990s. These machines used a single chip to recreate the hardware that once powered Super Mario Bros., and manufacturers kept producing them long after the patents expired because they were cheap to build and easy to sell to families who could not afford a real computer.
Nintendo 64 controllers already look chunky next to modern pads, with three grips and a stick planted in the middle. ChaosBench took that layout and enlarged it until ordinary button presses turned into arm movements that require real force.
Microsoft’s Zune never matched the iPod’s hold on the culture, yet the Zune HD has just gained a new purpose as a Super Mario 64 machine through a fresh open-source port.
Modders have spent years trimming Nintendo Wii motherboards down to the absolute minimum so they fit inside handheld shells that resemble the original Game Boy. Xenii refined that approach across earlier Xii-Boy versions until the latest Ultra revision arrived as a fully modular kit. Tito from Macho Nacho Productions assembled one, and the result sits at roughly 145 by 86 by 27 millimeters while still containing a genuine Wii board that has undergone the standard OMGWTF trim.
A stuffed Pikachu in a custom white suit spent 67 days aboard the International Space Station this spring, riding a cargo ship up on April 11 and coming home on another cargo ship on June 17. In that stretch the plush completed about 1,040 loops around Earth, a full circuit every 90 minutes or so, the same pace the station keeps. ESA and The Pokémon Company International kept the flight quiet until September 19, then used the yellow visitor as the opening note for World Space Week.
Across the room from a Linux PC, a Nintendo DSi is drawing Minecraft Java Edition on a pair of 256 by 192 screens that first shipped in 2008. Counter-Strike 2 shows up the same way. Video decoding happens on the handheld. A server on the computer only has to capture a window, squeeze each frame into a JPEG, and send the pile across the local network.
Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo can now walk Onett on a desktop, and the program that takes them there shares a name with the time machine Dr. Andonuts built for the end of the game. Phase Distorter, written by a developer going by TheRunaway5, is an unofficial native port of the 1994 Super Nintendo role-playing game EarthBound and its Japanese release, Mother 2. Version 0.2.1 went out on October 4, 2026, as a development build for Windows and Linux, and write-ups followed within a couple of days.