In the early aughts, somewhere around 20 years into the home console revolution, my favorite controller was released: the GameCube controller. With a goofy button layout and near-perfect ergonomics, ...

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Many fondly remember the Nintendo GameCube, from classic games, including Metroid Prime and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, to its iconic physical cube design with purple-colored console and ...

In 2018, when Nintendo released its official wireless NES controllers for the Switch, we talked about how nice it would be to see “Joy-Con options that offer a split-handed version of the GameCube ...

After months of silence, Nintendo has finally confirmed that the Switch 2 is coming soon, launching worldwide on June 5 (even if preorders are delayed for the US). But what accompanied that ...

Blaise Santi is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Dramatic Writing. He's had experience writing not only for screen and stage, but also for sketch and late-night. His ...

All-button controllers promise greater precision, speed, and comfort, particularly for fighting games. Although its use cases have limits, the 8BitDo Arcade Controller is an affordable and, more ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 retro-style GameCube controller will work for other games besides the GameCube classics coming to Nintendo Switch Online, but "there may be some issues," according to Nintendo.

Multiversus is the closest thing you'll get to Super Smash Bros on PC, but you can make it feel more like the Nintendo brawler by using a Gamecube controller. That's right, you can hook up that old ...

Although I thought I was invincible, the dreaded Joy-Con drift has finally come for my Nintendo Switch, which I bought on launch day almost six years ago. I’d be more upset about it were it not for ...

This week, Nintendo fans received two important pieces of information about GameCube controller functionality on the Switch 2, both of which suggest the original Switch could have better GameCube ...