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Nintendo Wanted To Remake Ocarina Of Time To "Trigger New Insights" For Future Titles

Out with the old, in with the Aonuma. "Hang on, why is Nintendo remaking Ocarina of Time again?" It's a natural question that might have occurred to you in the last few months, and in the latest Ask the Developer interview, Series Producer Eiji Aonuma had the answer. Part of the reason for returning to the title, it turns out, was to try to "trigger new insights" from the developers that may feed into future Zelda games. "Many of the team members who work alongside me on Legend of Zelda games today have only experienced developing the more recent titles," Aonuma-san says. "That led me to wonde

Nintendo Life · EN

Feature: Threads Of Time - The Best Ocarina References & Easter Eggs In The Wider Zelda Series

Links to the future. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a masterpiece. An enduring classic that set the standard, and often the template, for virtually every single action-adventure game that followed in its footsteps. A cultural touchstone for a generation, there are references to it littered throughout its gaming descendants and beyond, but there will now be an entirely new generation of player preparing to embark upon this chapter of the Zelda story - a good chunk of whom will have only experienced a Zelda title post-N64 (or no Zelda at all). Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Nintendo Life · EN

Nintendo Shares Ocarina Of Time Switch 2 Design Sketches

Ink's awakening. The latest Ask the Developer interviews are positively packed with interesting tidbits about the making of Ocarina of Time on Switch 2. One such story is all about the game's reimagined visuals, which Nintendo was even kind enough to share some initial sketches of. According to Art Director Aya Shida, the team was consciously fighting a battle between making the game more realistic with the improved power of the Switch 2, and retaining the spirit of the original — a somewhat dark world, filled with weird characters. She therefore relied on phrases like “a puppet-show feel” and

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Review: Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy: Encore Edition (Switch 2) - A Bright And Charming Adventure With An Okay Port

The cloudy skies have cleared. While cloud streaming has its benefits, nothing beats having a native version of a game. Guardians of the Galaxy launched on the first Nintendo Switch as a Cloud version, and that experience wasn’t really recommended. Now, the game is having an Encore Edition on Switch 2 with an actual port. It’s the same fun adventure, but with some performance caveats. Guardians of the Galaxy follows Peter Quill as Star-Lord, as he travels the galaxy with his ragtag team of heroes: Rocket Raccoon, Drax, Groot, and Gamora. It starts out as a scrappy adventure of them trying to g

Nintendo Life · EN

GDC Side Quest - An anti-cheat primer with Lucia Suarez

How do you begin to understand the mind of a cheater?

Game Developer · EN

Report: EA shut down BioWare in favor of Star Wars: Battlefront sequel after previously decrying licensed games

According to a new report, Electronic Arts closed down the venerated RPG studio BioWare to shift resources away from Mass Effect and toward a new Star Wars: Battlefront title.

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John Romero's canceled game finds a new publisher amidst an overall scope change

John Romero's game was canceled by Xbox and his studio was on the verge of total collapse, but a new publisher has picked it up and Romero has managed to retain some of his team.

Game Developer · EN

Roblox growth slumps, but the company is betting big on AI to compensate

Roblox's quarterly financial results missed their daily active user goals, but the company plans to make up for it somehow with AI.

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Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games

Update: Anthropic has confirmed it's released an update to Opus 5.5 to "steer" Claude Code away from "recreating someone else's specific game."

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Zelda producer: Ocarina of Time remake helps junior staff learn classic insights

The latest The Legend of Zelda title remakes one of the series' most beloved games, which Eiji Aonuma chose to pursue to help junior staff think about the modern games differently.

Game Developer · EN

The number of game pages doubles on Itch.io as AI games flood the store

The indie video game store that prides itself as an open marketplace is being deluged by game pages, doubling the usual number without a proportional increase in sales.

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Toshihiro Nagoshi's post-Sega game studio, Nagoshi Studio, shuts down after NetEase funding cuts

Founded in 2021, the studio was working on a game funded by NetEase announced just under a year ago, but the studio has reportedly collapsed.

Game Developer · EN

Resident Evil Requiem Drops To Lowest Price, But For One Day Only

Resident Evil Requiem is brilliant. I don’t need to tell you that—the critical scores across the board, feedback from both fans and newcomers, and the fact that Leon Kennedy returns are enough evidence to support my opinion. Halloween may be dead until next year, but what hasn’t died is the need to defeat hordes of infected. With the latest Resident Evil game cheaper than ever, there’s no better time to buy it. You only have one day to get it at this price, though. What makes Resident Evil Requiem one of the best horror games and one of the best entries in the franchise is how it balances the

GameSpot · EN

GTA 6 Buying Guide: Get Ready For Sticker Shock

Rockstar's GTA 6 finally releases on November 19, and if you're looking to play the game, you'll also need a console--and those are more expensive than ever. Here's a quick buying guide to help you understand what you need and how much the items will cost. A console First, you'll need a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S console. The least expensive option for buying a new system outright is the Xbox Series S, which costs $500. Unfortunately, that's $200 more expensive than the system cost at launch in 2020--there are a number macroeconomic and AI factors that drove prices up significantly . A n

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Xbox Game Pass Has A Busy November Ahead With Several Day-One Launches

The start of the month is a good time to be an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, as that's when Microsoft reveals the next batch of games coming to the service. November is frontloaded with new game releases before November 19-- we can't imagine why --and several of them are day-one releases. Once more games are revealed, we'll update this post. A few games have already been revealed for November, and usually, the first wave is the biggest one for Game Pass. Kicking things off is the online horror co-op game Pit of Goblin. This has been in early access since 2024, and November 3 marks its 1.0 release

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Phantom Blade Zero Put Up Some Massive Sales Numbers

Developer S-Game's action-RPG Phantom Blade Zero launched on October 29 and had a massive start across PC and PS5. The game sold more than 4 million copies over its first 72 hours. That works out to 926 units sold per minute or about 15.4 per second over the first three days. "Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support," the studio said in a social media post. https://twitter.com/pbzero_official/status/2117074929594298758 The 4 million figure counts copies sold across both PC and PS5--the game is not available on Xbox. The game reached a record of 833,921 pea

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When Is Resident Evil Coming To Home Video? It Could Be Very Soon

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie crushed it at the box office, banking more than $400 million globally to become the most successful entry in the series ever . When will the film be available to watch at home, though? According to Fandango , the home video release is set for November 3. That's apparently when people can buy the movie outright or rent it digitally, with a physical edition for Blu-ray coming at some point later. It will also presumably come to streaming at some point, and it should hit Netflix given the multi-billion-dollar Pay-1 deal the two companies have in place. https://w

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CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Arrives To Warzone With New Maps, Movement, And Features

Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 and Warzone arrives on November 6, and this fully integrates the new Call of Duty into battle royale. The season update replaces Black Ops 7's maps with two Modern Warfare-themed maps, overhauls Warzone's movement, introduces new game mechanics, and adds an operator-skin toggle feature. Here is everything you need to know when Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 goes live in Warzone. Additionally, Season 1 of Modern Warfare 4 adds a new battle pass, more multiplayer maps and modes, and plenty of new DMZ content. There are four new DLC weapons to unlock for use in MW4 and

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Former Xbox Exec Shares Her Side Of The Story After Mysterious Depature

Helen Chiang, the veteran Xbox staffer who got promoted in July and left the company amid mysterious circumstances just recently , has shared her side of the story--but her response doesn't close the book on this saga. In a LinkedIn post titled "Clarity is Kindess," which itself is a reference to her former boss (and Xbox CEO) Asha Sharma's much-ridiculed and cringey mantra, said it's "not accurate" that she was "fired for a policy violation" as multiple reports said. Chiang said she will not "turn this into a play-by-play" and reveal the specifics, but she wanted to speak out to dispel rumors

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Super Smash Bros. Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Fire Emblem

Booting up Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave had me feeling nostalgic. Fire Emblem as it is now would’ve been surreal to six-year-old me, who only knew “Marth and Roy from Smash.” Back then, Fire Emblem was still a niche series in the west and many of us had no idea who they were. Little did I know, these swordsmen would just be two of many Fire Emblem heroes to join the fighting game series, and Fire Emblem games would reach mainstream popularity. I discovered Fire Emblem in the early 2000s when I first started playing Super Smash Bros. Melee on our clunky big-screen TV in the basement. It was my

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The Backworld launches in Q2 2027

The Backworld, a turn-based RPG with narrative-driven horror elements, will launch for PC via Steam …

Gematsu · EN

Roguelike deckbuilder My Ransomware Can’t Be This Cute?! to be published by Top Hat Studios

Top Hat Studios will publish The Seppuku Commission-developed roguelike deckbuilder My Ransomware Can’t Be This …

Gematsu · EN

Tales of Tuscany launches February 22, 2027

Tales of Tuscany, a “WarioWare-soaked open-world RPG” follow-up to the 2024-released Athenian Rhapsody, will launch …

Gematsu · EN

3D action adventure game Ryn: And the Thread of Life to be published by Top Hat Studios

Top Hat Studios will publish Innombrable-developed 3D action adventure game Ryn: And the Thread of …

Gematsu · EN