Image Nintendo It’s coming on April 28. Best Buy and Amazon are now taking pre-orders Nintendo revealed a brand-new The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom-themed Nintendo Switch OLED system on Tuesday during the title’s gameplay debut. It will launch on April 28, a couple of weeks before the...
These TikTok creators are keeping The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild alive
Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild over six years ago, and somehow, I’m still learning new things about it. This is partially due to the lasting appeal of the game, but also in no small part due to the work of tireless TikTokers who document its...
Nintendo’s classic Ultra Hand toy lives on in Tears of the Kingdom
One of Link’s new powers in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an homage to one of Nintendo’s oldest toys, the Ultra Hand. While the Ultrahand ability in Tears of the Kingdom will let Link pick up and move far away objects, Nintendo’s nearly 60-year-old Ultra Hand...
MLB The Show’s celebration of Black baseball is the best thing in sports video games this year
Sports occupy one of the more curious niches among video games. They’re tremendous sellers, huge moneymakers, and yet they’re so taken for granted that nobody really talks about them the way they do a Resident Evil rerelease or Bethesda Softworks’ next RPG. But if you have an Xbox and a...
Yes, MLB The Show 23’s Negro League greats are in Diamond Dynasty
MLB The Show 23 shines a light on the history of the Negro Leagues through its new Storylines mode, which tells the stories of eight of the greatest athletes to play professional baseball in the sport’s pre-integration days. But that’s not the only way in which the game features these...
Epic decides to allow fan recreations of old Fortnite maps in Creative 2.0
Fortnite developer Epic Games has decided to make a special exemption to its usual rules, and allow creators using the new Creative 2.0 tool — also known as the Unreal Editor for Fortnite — to remake the game’s original maps. It’s just as well, as the race to recreate the...
‘What happens if Kirby swallows a hot man?’ His directors give answers
Kirby contains so many mysteries inside that adorable pink belly. What happens to the creatures he eats? Does he have a skeleton? Could Kirby fall in love? Dear reader, these are the questions I so often hear from you in our comments and on social media. Undeterred by the risk...
The best video games of 2023 so far
By some bizarre accident in the space-time continuum, we stepped out of 2022 and back into the early aughts. Everyone is playing Metroid Prime. The internet is in love with Leon S. Kennedy. Even Isaac Clarke is back, fully voiced and ready to express the thoughts he’s been keeping to...
Twitch streamer blows through Breath of the Wild with ocarina controller
Less than two weeks ago, Twitch streamer gv_mimi was struggling just to aim her weapon correctly to take down a Guardian in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first shrine. Yesterday, she beat Thunderblight Ganon. Using an ocarina controller, we should stipulate. And not the ThinkGeek one from...
Official Zelda: Breath of the Wild guide released for free
With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom just a couple of months out, Nintendo — seldom noted for giving stuff away — has made a guidebook for its predecessor, Breath of the Wild, available for free. The Breath of the Wild Explorer’s Guide, previously only available in a...