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Three Prongs, No Pak, All Heart: The Switch Online N64 Controller Is Still the Go-To Pad
Let’s concede the point in the headline up front: Nintendo’s Switch Online Nintendo 64 controller is not the most authentic way to…
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Fresh Cartridge reporter. Covers launches, remasters and the modern retro scene as it happens. Owns more handhelds than handbags, has opinions about all of them, and filed this bio from a Game Boy she modded herself.
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It’s Dangerous to Go Alone — Take This Ultimate Setup for the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary
Forty years is a long time to keep a kingdom waiting. The first The Legend of Zelda launched in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System on February 21…
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A Hundred Ways to Play The Legend of Zelda, and the Tiniest One Wins: The Game and Watch at the 40th Anniversary
The peg for this feature arrived on February 17, 2026, in the form of a cheerful confession: a writer surrounded by a near-absurd number of legitimate routes…
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It’s Dangerous to Shop Alone: The Best Legend of Zelda Merch From 40 Years of Hyrule Treasure
Forty years after Link first walked out of a cave in 1986 and was told, sensibly, that it was dangerous to go alone, The Legend of Zelda has produced far…
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Ubisoft Heard the Missing Note: Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition’s Soundtrack Swap, and the Old Tunes Still in Limbo
Some anniversary presents arrive with one part missing, and everybody notices the missing part first. That is the story of the Rayman 30th Anniversary…
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Rewind the Ocarina, or Get Weird? Why Zelda’s 40th Anniversary Deserved Stranger Than Another Ocarina of Time Remake
Anniversaries invite a particular kind of tidiness. A round number arrives, a back catalogue gets polished, a beloved box gets reissued in nicer cardboard…
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Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Is a Museum — the PS1 Original Is Still the Ride
On 13 February 2026, Ubisoft and Digital Eclipse released the Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition: five versions of Michel Ancel’s 1995 masterpiece, a…
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Hail to the Discounts: The Presidents Day PS5 Deals of 2026, From Silent Hill f to a $399 Console
A note on what follows: this is a historical record, not a shopping guide. It reconstructs the Presidents Day PS5 deals of February 2026 from the deals…
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Stay Awhile and Watch: The Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight Announcements, Thirty Years On
Some anniversary shows are a montage and a cake. Blizzard chose a different way to mark three decades of Diablo: it used one February afternoon to hand a…
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Gotta Catch ‘Em at Their Lowest: Razer’s Pokémon Headset Hits Its Lowest Ever Price at Woot for the 30th Anniversary
Some anniversary presents announce themselves. Others quietly drop to the cheapest figure they have ever carried, seventeen days before the birthday itself.…