Category: Nintendo

And it’s Metacritic’s highest rated game of 2023.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is already breaking records, with review aggregate website OpenCritic revealing the long-awaited Switch exclusive is currently its “#1 highest rated game of all time”.

According to the site’s rankings, Tears of the Kingdom sits just ahead of Super Mario Odyssey, with an average score of 97.223 out of 100 compared to Mario’s 96.811. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is in third place with a score of 95.905.

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The Xenoblade Chronicles dev updates its website.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been a massive undertaking for Nintendo, with the company calling on multiple development teams to help out. As you might recall, one of these developers was the Xenoblade Chronicles team Monolith Soft.

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Nintendo Power may return for “special episodes” in the future.

The Nintendo Power Podcast has just aired its Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom special and it turns out it’s actually the final episode.

At the start of episode #57, host and Nintendo of America employee Chris Slate announced this sad news – revealing this Zelda-themed show was the “last episode” currently planned for the Nintendo Power Podcast. The first episode back in 2017 was about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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Roll credits? Collect everything? Visit EVERYWHERE?

If you are anything like us (and since you are reading this article, we assume that you probably are) then you will have been thinking about the release day of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for a good long while now. It took a little while for the marketing campaign to get into full swing, we’ll admit, but over the past few weeks it has been impossible to look anywhere without seeing Link’s crouched silhouette gawping off the edge of a Sky Island, accompanied by that awesome theme.

Today (12th May) the game is out and we’re quickly realising that we have been so busy getting excited to try out Link’s new abilities, explore new areas and fight new enemies, that we haven’t spent the necessary hours thinking about what it is that we want to do first.

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Let’s Toku ’bout it.

Today marks the 15th anniversary of LostWinds in North America, a launch title for WiiWare and (in this writer’s opinion) one of the console’s finest bite-sized games.

The title was developed and published by Frontier Developments out West, though Square Enix took care of publishing duties for LostWinds’ Japan release in December 2008. The game would later come to iOS for a brief time in 2011 before more recently being added to Steam in 2016.

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Zooming for Zelda.

The release of a new Zelda game means that we are going to be hearing about a whole lot of speedruns over the coming days/weeks/months and today’s Tears of the Kingdom launch is no exception. Yes, somebody has already managed to beat the game in an eye-watering 94 minutes (thanks, VGC).

On the day of the game’s launch, Zelda speedrunner @MrGymnast86 posted his best time on Twitter, with an any% speedrun of a little over an hour and a half. His tweet was accompanied by a video of the run in question, which we are obviously not going to add to this article on account of it showing huge portions of the game which most of us and you haven’t even had the chance to play yet.

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Little bit of Mii time.

After seeing the King of the Koopas take the limelight for the past few weeks, the Bowser Tour is entering its final lap in Mario Kart Tour. As we have come to expect, the next tour has now been revealed and it looks like the focus is all about Miis this time around.

The aptly-named Mii Tour will be speeding off the start line on 17th May at 7:00am BST / 8:00am CEST and is set to bring back Mario Kart Double Dash‘s Mushroom Bridge circuit. All this was revealed by the official @mariokarttourEN Twitter account, which also provided a sneak peek at the course itself.

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Take a look.

If you’ve been wondering what exactly Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looks like alongside the Switch launch title Breath of the Wild, this side-by-side video of the two games is well worth watching.

It shows the differences between the draw distance, resolution, loading times, how shadows and water look, and most importantly the resolution and performance. As mentioned by Digital Foundry, the resolution runs at 900p with drops to 720p in docked, and it’s 720p in handheld mode. The performance is mostly a solid 30fps, but there are times when it also experiences drops.

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Take a look.

If you’ve been wondering how exactly Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looks alongside Switch launch title Breath of the Wild, this side-by-side video of the two is well worth watching.

It shows off the differences between the draw distance, resolution, loading times, how shadows and water look, and most importantly the resolution and performance.

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What kind of sorcery is this?

We don’t often hear much about the game engines powering Nintendo’s library of games, but today is a little bit different with the news The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is apparently running on the same engine as Splatoon 3 and Nintendo Switch Sports.

This was highlighted by a Zelda enthusiast on social media and then the dataminer OatmealDome chimed in to share some more details:

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