Luigi's Mansion Speedrun Makes Me Excited For Luigi's Mansion 3
I owned Luigi’s Mansion on GameCube when I was slightly smaller than I am now. My younger brother and I would try to…
Show Us Your Smash Bros. Ultimate Controller Setup
Smash Bros. players are often as particular about the controllers they use as they are which characters they pick to go…
Smash Bros. Fan Creates 8-Player GameCube Controller Adapter
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a little over a month away, and many die hard fans are set on playing it with a GameCube…
Prototype Wii Remote From The GameCube Era Sells At Auction
Over the weekend, an old Wiimote controller was sold at auction in Japan for 74,000 yen (approximately $660). Why so…
Three Consoles, One A/V Port
It is unholy, and yet, also strangely beautiful.
This October, peripheral maker Hori is releasing three GameCube controllers for Nintendo Switch. The controllers are…
Animal Crossing On GameCube Can Actually Play Any NES Game
A deleted feature from Animal Crossing for the GameCube would have let you play a library of 8-bit Nintendo…
Let Us All Remember The Great F-Zero GX
I play Gran Turismo games because they’re like an interactive version of a glossy car brochure. Others, like Dirt, I…
Evo 2018 will allow Super Smash Bros competitors to play using the Smash Box, a controversial alternative to the aging…
This GameCube Is Now A Switch Dock—With Working Controller Ports
I love my Switch, but you know what was also great? The GameCube. If only there were a way to combine the two...Oh…
I've Fallen In Love With The GameCube's Analog Stick
Last week, I set up a Nintendo GameCube to play Suda 51’s cult classic Killer7 on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. I haven’t…
Metroid Prime Speedrunners Spent Nine Years Figuring Out How To Skip A Boss
Metroid Prime is a massive game, but speedrunners bypass most of it with complicated glitches and special tricks. A new…
Jigglypuff GameCube Controller Is Wonderfully Horrifying
Based on art by Samstrojny, this custom GameCube controller was created by SmashproofGC and Design_OOS.
New Wind Waker HD Trick Breathes Life Back Into 'Dead' Speedrunning Category
Last year, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunners found a way to get to the end of the game early, but…
There's A New Mod Designed To Make Smash Bros. 4 Play Just Like Melee
A new mod promising to make Super Smash Bros. 4 play more like Super Smash Bros. Melee now has a playable beta, as well…
Why Some Zelda Speedruns Use German And Others Use Japanese
There’s a reason Breath of the Wild is played in German. It’s just a heck of a lot faster. Speedruns use different…
Metroid Prime: The Kotaku Review
When she shoots, Samus Aran doesn’t miss. That’s one of the fundamental truths of the original Metroid Prime, the…
Zelda: Breath of The Wild’s Second Expansion Is Still On Track For This Year, Nintendo Says
Despite Nintendo’s recent, conspicuous quiet on the topic, the second expansion for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the…
The Nintendo Switch Now Supports GameCube Controllers
The recent 4.00 Nintendo Switch update has a secret: It brings GameCube controller support to the Nintendo Switch.
Someone Beat Spider-Man 2 Without Any Web Swings
2004’s Spider-Man 2 is fondly remembered for being a pretty good movie tie-in game with some amazing web swinging. New…