It’s been nearly two years since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released to glowing reviews. It won’t be easy to follow that up, but Nintendo is reportedly preparing for the tall task. A new job listing on Nintendo’s Japanese reveals the company is looking for a level designer and 3DCG designer to work on a new Legend of Zelda game. The job listing reveals these designers...
According to Nintendo and the fact trackers over at Game design Gazette, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now the second best-selling game in its parent series, surpassed the sales figures every other game out there save the Wii’s launch title, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Reports put the game at roughly 7.78 million copies worldwide, roughly one-million shy of ...
2017 was a huge year for gaming. We had an unprecedented number of legendary games, multiple hardware launches, some long-awaited shifts in industry mindset, as well as some pretty disappointing moments. Let’s go over a big year of moments in gaming. If we missed any, hop into the comments and let us know what we overlooked! Red Dead, Metroid, and Pokemon announced...
I’ll let you decide what you think of 2017 in general. It’s been quite the year no matter where you stand. But from a gaming perspective, it’s been absolutely bonkers. The number of critically-acclaimed games that hit the scene is utterly unprecedented. It would be impossible to play them all and hold down the job that lets you afford them. And some of them, games like Persona 5,...
Link and Zelda’s next chapter is already in the works, says series producer Eiji Aonuma. The producer shared the news in the newest Breath of the Wild artbook, Master Works, according to Game Informer. Whatever else Aonuma knows, though, he’s keeping it to himself. We don’t know whether it’ll be open-world like Breath of the Wild, or go for something new entirely. Maybe Zelda will...
Nintendo has the two best-reviewed video games of the year, forever owning their exclusivity and stemming from their two most marquis franchises. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey continue both franchises’ domination of the aggregate review lists, and they compliment one another quite nicely on a single console, the Nintendo Switch. It sure is a nice time...
The climbing in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is really, really good. Video creator and game documentarian Danny O’Dwyer committed an entire video to a brief history of climbing in video games and exactly how well Zelda achieves it. A point that really hit home for me that I never qualified with words but felt as I played was voiced perfectly in the video. It’s that bit...
I listen to music while I work. That’s not strange, of course, I’d guess that most people would say that. I tend to listen to music without lyrics, though, as I find singing actually makes it harder for me to write. That means I often turn to orchestral video game music. One of the this year’s releases that’s gotten a lot of playtime for me is the soundtrack to The Legend of Zelda:...
I like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild; but, I sort of don’t in a weird way at the same time. It’s an intoxicating adventure, one that constantly challenges and offers rewards for exploration and trial routinely. It’s one of the best games ever made, and it’s an achievement for Nintendo. It’s also selling absurdly well. In its first month at retail, The Legend of Zelda: Breath...
Earlier this week, The Legend of Zelda Series Producer Eiji Aonuma talked about the development team likes to watch videos and read about moments when players use the game’s physics system to go absolutely hog wild. The developers would see something and be rendered “speechless.” That’s largely why I personally love this game. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was so well made as...