It’s been a big news week for Nintendo fans, but it just got bigger. One day after revealing their own mobile news app called “Nintendo Today!,” the Japanese developer has dropped a bombshell, announcing a release date for their next big movie — a live-action adaptation of their classic franchise …
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Princess Zelda has been lost, kidnapped, and forced into hiding. She’s been trapped in stone, crystal, and in the twisting body of a dragon. Yet she’s never had a meaningful opportunity to remain on screen in her own video game franchise until this year — 38 years after the original …
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It’s kind of crazy that, despite having her name in the title, Princess Zelda has never actually been the star of her own Legend of Zelda game. Routinely relegated to the damsel in distress, even when she plays a pivotal role in the narrative, Zelda herself has only been playable …
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In an industry rife with remakes, remasters, and re-releases, few companies have mastered the art of repacking leftovers for a nostalgia-driven appetite than Nintendo. With games like 1985’s NES classic Super Mario Bros. reissued dozens of times over four decades, even the youngest players are familiar with the look, feel, …
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Well, they finally did it. After a supposed decade in the works and 35 years of fans imagining what a movie would look like, Nintendo has officially willed a feature film adaptation of The Legend of Zelda into existence. Yet what should have been cause for celebration was met with …
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When it arrived in 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild changed everything. Abandoning comfortable formulas the series had leaned on for almost 30 years, it instead focused on one very simple premise, one that the original game in the series was predicated on: discovery. Pure, unfettered discovery. …
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Anyone who knows the voice acting world knows of Matthew Mercer. In anime, his work can be heard in the English dubs of mega-hits like Attack on Titan, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, as well as some small show you may have heard of about dragon …
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After six excruciating years, the wait for the next Zelda title is nearly over. To fans’ dismay, the creative sadists at Nintendo opted to withhold practically all information about the game, entitled The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, outside of its basic premise and setting until roughly a …
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Since the first popular video game was released more than 50 years ago, they have often been brushed off as niche and nerdy — the arena of the basement dweller, the outcast, the arcade-addicted kid who didn’t want to engage with the real world. But that’s never really been true …
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