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New Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Trailer Proves Its World Is Anything But A Link To The Past Remix
5.8.2024
Who needs another Nintendo Direct when the company is willing to randomly dish on its next Zelda game with an unexpected five-minute trailer. The latest info dump for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gives a tour of the Hyrule players will get to explore in the series’ latest top-down sequel...
Nintendo Plans To Sell Over 10 Million More Switches But No One Knows How
2.8.2024
The Switch is in its eighth year. That’s longer than any Nintendo system has gone without getting a successor. But the company is still bullish on the hybrid console’s future even as fans wait to hear about a Switch 2 as soon as this September. Nintendo is planning to sell over 12 million...
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Player Recreates Top Gun By Breaking The Game
30.7.2024
There’s nothing worse than making a cool airship in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, launching off into the sunset, and then watching in horror moments later as all your Zonai pieces slowly disappear one-by-one. Fortunately, there are glitches to get around this, and Japanese player Peco...
The BioShock Movie Is Still In The Works, But Will Be ‘Much Smaller’ Than Originally Planned
26.7.2024
It’s been a while since we got news of Netflix’s BioShock adaptation, but we finally have an update thanks to San Diego Comic-Con. During a panel at the convection, producer Roy Lee revealed that, yes the movie is still happening, but it won’t be exactly as it was originally intended due to recent...
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Would Be Terrific If Not For This One Colossal Flaw
23.7.2024
God, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is so frustrating. I’m this close to absolutely adoring this assortment of timed challenges from NES games. In many ways, it feels like it’s designed precisely for NES sickos like me, folks who have an enduring fondness not just for well-regarded...
Dungeons Of Hinterberg: The Kotaku Review
18.7.2024
Do you believe in magic? What do you think it looks and feels like? In Dungeons of Hinterberg, magic is uncomfortably real. In the places that it has sprung up, monsters inspired by local folklore have come to life, and otherworldly dungeons have appeared. Quiet mountain towns have become booming...
Looks Like Link Is Playable In Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom After All
15.7.2024
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is coming to Switch on September 26, and it’s giving the titular princess a long overdue starring role. However, it sounds like you might not be playing solely as Zelda, despite her being the headliner. According to the game’s ESRB rating, Link will be playable...
It's Time To Jump Into One Of The Longest-Running Japanese RPG Series Out There
5.7.2024
Everyone knows at least one super fan in their life who won’t shut up about the Trails series, Nihon Falcom’s sprawling universe of beefy RPGs with an overwhelming number of sequels, subseries, and interwoven narrative arcs spread out across multiple decades. Fortunately, the latest game in...
Man Sentenced To Four Months In Prison For Wielding Tiny Master Sword In Public
3.7.2024
A man in England has been sentenced to four months in prison after police found him walking around outside while brandishing a miniature replica of the Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda. Arguing that it was an actual weapon, the police eventually detained Anthony Bray, who claims he bought...
Nintendo Doubling-Down On Security Following Latest Video Game Leaker Drama
27.6.2024
Nintendo is working to beef up its security and IT training following recent reports of how major announcements were scrapped from YouTube’s backend ahead of major Directs. The acknowledgement of efforts to curb internal information from being exposed by outside actors comes as the video game...
New Zelda-Like Is A Fun '90s Cartoon Take On Killing Vampires
21.6.2024
Sometimes all it takes to grab my attention is one trailer. One good teaser. And that’s exactly how I discovered Blud, a newly released 2D Zelda-like action game about vampires, evil tech bros, and high school. I saw its release trailer on Twitter, thought “Wow that looks cool!” and started playing...
Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Trailer Is Full Of Clues To Its Place On The Timeline
20.6.2024
Ever since Nintendo confirmed that The Legend of Zelda has an official, branching timeline, fans have been curious about precisely when every new game in Nintendo’s beloved action-adventure franchise takes place. That includes the newly announced The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. While...
Players Are Already Having A Blast Imagining Zelda's New Copy Ability In Action
20.6.2024
Since the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, fans of the series have been expressing their excitement over Zelda’s unique gameplay. Chiefly, they are overjoyed about her ability to copy (or echo) items in the environment and use them against her enemies in battle. Read more
Fans Are Joking That The New Zelda Game Should Be Called 'Legend of Link'
18.6.2024
Earlier this morning, Nintendo finally did the thing and announced The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, a mainline Zelda game that cast the titular princess in the lead role, at its most recent Direct. Yes, we know about Age of Calamity, as well as Zelda’s Adventure, but does most anybody else?...
Nintendo's War On Fan Creators Now Includes People Making Sheet Music For Fire Emblem
18.6.2024
Nintendo’s reputation for taking down anyone it deems is using its intellectual property in a way it doesn’t like is pretty well documented. Some of these incidents make some sense, such as going after ROMs and other things that could, hypothetically, cut into sales of games and consoles. However...
The Nintendo Switch Is Going Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper
18.6.2024
It’s funny that one day ago, just before Nintendo’s June Direct, we had almost no idea what the next six months would look like for the Switch. Nintendo has confirmed it will have news on its next console in the coming months, and that means the Switch is in its twilight year. But after a 40-minute...
Everything We Saw At Today's Nintendo Direct
18.6.2024
Today, June 18, 2024's Nintendo Direct may not have had everything we wanted to see (sorry Silksong), but damn did it have some great looking games coming to Nintendo’s hybrid console. Yes, we got to see Metroid Prime 4, but there’s so much more. So let’s get into it!Read more
Link Is Missing In The Legend of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
18.6.2024
In a wild twist of events, we’re getting a new Zelda game this year after all. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom is the latest adventure where players control the titular princess as sets out to rescue Link. It hits Switch on September 16. Read more
New Legend Of Zelda Game Finally Lets You Play As Zelda
18.6.2024
During the latest Nitendo Direct, we finally got the thing that we’ve been clamoring for years for: a Legend of Zelda game in which you can play as Zelda. Reader, I cannot believe it.Read more
Wait, How Many Games Is Horror Legend Blumhouse Making?
8.6.2024
At Summer Game Fest, Blumhouse Games revealed a whole slate of horror games it’s publishing in the near future, as the horror film studio turns its eye toward a new medium. The games shown off include Sam Barlow’s upcoming horror game titled Project C which is being made in collaboration with...