The Nintendo 64 made a big splash when it launched in 1996, not least of all for its innovative controller. Featuring a never-before-or-since seen trident design, and with an analog stick smack ...
The Nintendo 64 was one of the consoles that properly heralded in the era of 3D gaming. However, its controller is of a design we wouldn’t consider ideal today. For the FPS games that were so ...
particularly that it's physically the weak point of the N64 controller. With heavy use, the analog stick can become loose, thanks in large part to a poor design that caused plastic parts to grind ...
On this episode of The Vergecast, we explore a looming crisis in the Nintendo 64 speedrunning community: players are grinding their controllers to plastic dust and at such a quick pace that ...
Majora's Mask has had many re-releases on many different platforms over the years, but some are better than others.
If you are an avid user of the GameCube controller, you might want to check out this new Kickstarter by Mitch Cairns of Hand ...
Making the Nintendo Switch Online experience all the more authentic, Nintendo has also released NES, SNES and N64-style controllers that are designed for use with your Switch. These can only be ...
The 64-bit AX27L2 is a 5-stage processor that supports the latest RISC-V specification, including “G” (“IMAFD”) standard instructions, “C” 16-bit compression instructions, “P” Packed-SIMD/DSP ...
Voice controls expanded into other genres over time, with survival-horror games like Lifeline, party games like Mario Party 6 ...
The Switch remains a ton of fun, even years after its release. But is it still worth the investment? We dive into this and ...
Decades after Miyamoto invented Mario and Zelda, he explains what makes Nintendo special and its transformation into a global ...