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Read More »Miyamoto update: Nintendo denies reports of him stepping down, says his job is unchanged
Late yesterday US time, we reported (opens in new tab) on an article posted on Wired.com (opens in new tab) that had some big news pertaining to Shigeru Miyamoto, the man most associated with Mario, Zelda, and almost every other thing Nintendo does. The article quoted the 59 year-old detailing …
Read More »Tales Studio shut down by Namco Bandai
Tales Studio, the independent developer responsible for the Tales series of RPGs since 1995’s Tales of Phantasia, has been closed (opens in new tab) by parent company Namco Bandai. But Tales fans can take comfort in the fact that upcoming titles in the series haven’t been cancelled – however, with …
Read More »The Top 7 Games that broadened our musical horizons
Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …
Read More »The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Water Temple walkthrough
Ah yes, this thing. While the 3DS version may add a few things to lessen the evil that is the Water Temple, the N64 / GC / Virtual Console versions are as murky and misleading as ever. The basic premise is to lower and raise the water level by playing …
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