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Archives for November 2025

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Nintendo Switch Online adds four new distractions for the holiday weekend.

If you need an alternative to quality family time over the next few days, Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden 2 have been added to the Switch’s NES app, while Bionic Commando and Kid Icarus are now in the Game Boy app. Both apps now also let you remap your controller using the in-game menu.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The retro gray version of the 8BitDo 64 controller makes me want an Analogue 3D.

I’m deeply regretting skipping preorders for Analogue’s reimagined N64 console now that 8BitDo has updated its 64 Bluetooth controller with a new retro gray color scheme. At $45 it’s more expensive than the $40 black and white versions, but those colored buttons are hitting all my nostalgia buttons.

The 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth controller on a wooden desk next to assorted color buttons.
The gray version of the 8BitDo 64 is now available for preorder but isn’t expected to ship until January 30th, 2026.
Image: 8BitDo
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Zeraora? Why, I haven’t heard that name in years.

The mythical pokémon Zeraora has been almost impossible to obtain in the mainline games since it was first introduced in Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon. But that’s probably going to change next month when the monster’s new Mega Evolved form debuts in Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s Mega Dimension DLC.

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
Take your tomb raiding on the go.

Aspyr has shadow dropped Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on both Nintendo Switch consoles. For the first time, you’ll be able to play the 2013 game that rebooted the Tomb Raider franchise on the Nintendo Switch family of systems.

But if modern Lara with her modern video game conventions aren’t your thing, Aspyr has also released remastered versions of the classic Tomb Raider games as well.

The Analogue 3D is the perfect console for N64 collectors0

The company behind the Analogue Pocket is back with its latest game console, which plays N64 games in 4K.

Andrew Webster
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Well excuse me, princess!

Apropos of it being Monday, Nintendo has just shared a handful of new photos from its upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie starring Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan. The pics don’t tell us much about the movie’s story, but Zelda’s blue outfit suggests it’ll involve elements from the Breath of the Wild timeline.

A girl wearing a blue dress with matching pants. The girl is standing in a lush countryside landscape. On the girl’s back is a quiver of arrows.
A boy wearing a green tunic. The boy is standing in a wide open, green countryside landscape setting.
A boy in a green tunic squatting in a wide open countryside landscape behind a girl in a blue dress and pants who is kneeling.
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Bo Bragason as Princess Zelda
Image: Nintendo
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A Primer.

Nintendo shared an overview video today for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which comes out on December 4th on Switch and Switch 2. A lot of it looks like classic Metroid Prime, but the chatty companions worry me (and I’m not the only one).

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
A Switch 2 update has borked some third-party docks.

A report from Kotaku notes that a recent Switch 2 update is causing problems. The 21.0.0 update adds some quality of life tweaks, but according to multiple posts on Reddit and elsewhere, the update has also apparently made some third-party docks stop working that even a full restart won’t fix. It’s unknown whether Nintendo intended the update brick users’ docks or if it was simply an accident.