May2023
Feature Nintendo's Satellaview Blazed A Trail For Today's Season-Based, Ephemeral Games
Total BS-X
The most considerable game industry development in the last decade has been the rise of live-service games. When MMOs first launched, the idea of an always-online game was considered a novelty, but today most AAA studios are making live-service titles, and most non-live-service games from those companies have online features. The modern...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 20th)
Zelda, yeah?
Well folks, another week has come and gone, and it certainly feels like there's been a lot to talk about regarding The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, right? First up, of course, we received full confirmation from Nintendo that the latest Zelda game managed to sell an incredible 10 million copies in just three days. That's...
News Zelda's Tears Of The Kingdom VA Took Inspiration From The Hit HBO Show "Game Of Thrones"
Emilia Clarke's character influenced her performance
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom expands on the story building first seen in the 2017 hit Breath of the Wild with even more cinematic cutscenes and many of the main characters (excluding the protagonist Link) now have even more dialogue. Speaking to Axios recently about her return to the...
Gallery Light Up Your Life With This Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Heart Vessel
Take it to heart
If you're currently knee-deep in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, then chances are you're utterly obsessed with getting as many heart containers as possible. These are a traditional goal in all Zelda games, and with good reason – the more you have, the more punishment Link can take. In both Breath of the Wild and Tears of the...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom?
Tearing up?
"What do you mean? I've barely scratched the surface!" It's been one whole week since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launched, and most of us have spent it in a glorious Zelda stupor, a little awestruck and baffled at its enormity and how — even hours into it and with a sound knowledge of Hyrule's layout from Breath of the...
Random The Internet Is Still Obsessed With Purah's Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Look
A Sheikah glow up
If you thought that we were over the worst of the internet's shenanigans on the reveal of Ganondorf's new look for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, then we hate to say this, but that was just the beginning. It turns out that in the week since the game's release, many, many people have become enamoured with a character...
News Surprise! The Mario Movie's Digital Release Is Out Now (US)
Update: It appears to be arriving in the UK next week
Update #2 [Fri 19th May, 2023 01:25 BST]: Following the US release earlier this week, it seems the Mario Movie will now be arriving in the UK next week. As highlighted by Eurogamer, iTunes has the film listed for a 22nd May release in this location. Elsewhere on sites like YouTube and Amazon...
Japanese Charts Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Dominates, Surprising No One
Tears of joy
The latest Japanese charts are in, and to no one's surprise, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has come out on top this week. Not only that, but much like the the UK, Breath of the Wild has also benefited from a tasty boost in sales to come in at number three. Elsewhere, the only non-Switch game this week is
Random Bayonetta 3's Director Was Worried Hideki Kamiya Would Interfere
"Kamiya-san and myself would engage in heated discussions"
PlatinumGames has released the first of a four-part documentary examining the development of Bayonetta 3. It's jam-packed with fascinating anecdotes from the team, including a rather surprising revelation from the game's director, Yusuke Miyata. Miyata confirmed that Hideki Kamiya, creator...
News Yes, Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Also Has Duplication Glitches
Clone your inventory items with this "easy duplication glitch"
We're not even a week into the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and sure enough, duplication glitches have already returned. Compared to certain other video game glitches in the past, this one (utilising Link's bow & arrow) is a relatively straightforward process...
News Zelda Switch OLED Launch Boosts Nintendo Hardware Sales In April (US)
"Zelda OLED had a huge impact"
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has already surpassed 10 million sales in just three days around the globe, and while its success isn't fully reflected in software sales data just yet, on the hardware front in the US, it's already lifted Nintendo's system sales. In the latest update for the month of April,...
Feature The Best Builds We've Seen In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom So Far
Ultra handywork
It was in the second official trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (the one that closed out the February 2023 Nintendo Direct) where we first got a snippet of Link driving around on what appeared to be a hand-made vehicle. We couldn't make sense of it. Are these cars dotted around Hyrule? Will someone make them for...
News Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Has Surpassed 10 Million Sales In Three Days
Fastest-selling Zelda game of all time
Well, we were expecting The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to sell well, but this is frankly astonishing. Nintendo has confirmed that the latest entry to the Zelda franchise has sold over 10 million copies in just three days, becoming the fastest-selling Zelda game of all time. In a press release, the...
News Zelda: TOTK Is The Sixth Game Ever To Get Perfect Scores From Edge And Famitsu
Joins another three Zelda titles on the list
With the reviews rolling in thick and fast, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has joined an exclusive club of six games to be given a 'perfect' score in both Famitsu and EDGE magazines (thanks, VGC). The latest review came from Famitsu, which granted the game a perfect 40/40 after receivi
News Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Director Wanted Ganondorf To Be A "Very Awesome Demon King"
The fanbase had a bit of a different reception to his new look...
When Nintendo originally revealed Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the fanbase got rather excited about his new look. If you were wondering how the redesign came about, Tears of the Kingdom director Hidemaro Fujibayashi recently revealed how this task was...
Random Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Player Creates Insane "Orbital Strike Laser Cannon"
The game hasn't even been out for a week yet...
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom hasn't even been available for a week yet and already players are crafting some absolutely mind-blowing creations with the new toolkit in the game. While we've seen Gundam and all other sorts of fancy vehicles and weapons so far, someone has now gone and made...
Soapbox Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom's Incredible Opening Is One Of Nintendo's Best
Sheik it up
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Jim dives into that opening... Despite having been counting down the days until The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's release over the past four years or more, nothing could have...
News Splatoon 3 'Sizzle Season 2023' Update Revealed - New Weapons, Stages, Game Modes And More
Splatting onto Switch next month
Nintendo has today announced that a brand new season will be inking its way onto Splatoon 3 next month, as Sizzle Season 2023 kicks off on 1st June. Much like the recent Fresh Season (and the opening Chill Season before that) there is a whole lot of new content that will be heading to the game with this update,...
PSA Zelda: TOTK Pro Controller Drifting After A Few Hours? It Might Just Need Recalibrating
Put the soldering iron away for now
One of the hottest items off the back of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, was the game's special edition Pro Controller. These items sold out quicker than you could say "Ultrahand", and we can't say that we were all that surprised. Yes, the single white handle is a slightly rogue design...
News Expect More Open-World Zelda Games Going Forwards, Suggests Eiji Aonuma
Count us in!
When The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launched back in 2017, it definitely seemed like a turning point for the franchise; we all felt it, right? 3D Zelda games have generally always felt quite similar to one another in terms of structure ever since Ocarina of Time. Titles like The Wind Waker and Skyward Sword bent and stretched...
News Yes, Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Also Uses "An Advanced Version Of Miis"
"Modding the game allows us to import Miis"
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has expanded on the foundations of the original title, but the sequel does still share some similarities with Breath of the Wild. In case you missed (or just didn't play the first game), back in 2021 it was discovered Nintendo used an "advanced version" of the Mii...
News The Super Mario Bros. Movie Breaks More Box Office Records Around The World
Update: Now the highest-grossing movie ever in Mexico
Update [Tue 16th May, 2023 05:05 BST]: We've got an update about the Mario Movie's sales success in Mexico with the film now officially the country's highest-grossing film ever in the country's history. It follows on from the movie surpassing the $1 billion mark globally in cinemas, in just 26...
Video Overclocked Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Smooths Out Performance On Switch
Check out 30fps "locked"
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a masterpiece, but like the original title Breath of the Wild, it does suffer from some serious performance dips during more heated gameplay moments - with the frame rate dropping from around 30 to the low 20s. If you're wondering what a more consistent frame rate would look like...
Feature 7 Things From Zelda: TOTK's First Hours That Had Us Grinning Like Mad
Take my breath (of the wild) away
We're pretty sure that most of you reading this will have spent a good chunk of the weekend tucking into this delightful little indie effort that launched last Friday. It's a follow-up to a little-known open-world adventure that, as we understand, was much loved by the few who bothered to play it back in 2017...
Random Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Contains A Cute Nod To BOTW's Champions' Ballad DLC
Hylian housewarming
We have known for a good while now that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a direct sequel to Breath of the Wild (heck, we all called it 'Breath of the Wild 2' for long enough) and this means that there are, of course, a boatload of references to the former games. One that we have caught today, however, is a little more...