Category: Product Review

Summer Farah is an accomplished Palestinian-American poet and editor, nominated for numerous awards like the Pushcart Prize and the Hugo Award. She is an organizer with the Radius of Arab-American Writers and has many editing credits to her name, including work with FIYAH Literary Magazine and Violet, Indigo, Blue, Etc. In 2024, Farah, alongside Game Over Books, published I could die today and live again, a collection of Zelda-inspired poetry. Farah describes the chapbook as “giving voice to non-player characters…

Video games have seen a slow infiltration into the academic world, yet they are still ever-so-often dismissed as gluttonous, mindless, or even the cause for violent behavior in youth. Fitting video games into ludology (the academic study of games in general) has become increasingly justifiable in recent times, however, as music, stories, and memes from a variety of video games have found their way into popular culture and the modern lexicon, making their impact on the world hard to continue…

Nintendo fans have been anxiously waiting for Nintendo to reveal its newest piece of hardware, and the company responded on October 9th, 2024 with a surprise video announcement of… an alarm clock?! Following the announcement, the interactive sound clock named Alarmo went on sale for $99 USD through Nintendo’s website, exclusively to those with a Nintendo Switch Online account. (It is also currently available for purchase at the Nintendo New York store, and it will come to other retailers in…

The Great Deku Tree 2-in-1 set from LEGO released in September 2024, and fans could hardly contain their excitement. Over the years, fans who occupy the middle of the Zelda-LEGO Venn diagram have been forced to be creative, building My Own Creations (MOCs) to fill the hole in LEGO’s catalog and submitting their own dream Zelda sets to the LEGO Ideas platform. However, Nintendo finally bridged the gap in their intellectual property (IP) offerings. Super Mario and Animal Crossing have…

Back in 1990, Nintendo held the very first Nintendo World Championships, a video game competition that toured 29 American cities and captured the hearts of gamers young and old, nationwide. Now, fans have the opportunity to play like it’s 1990 once more, with Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. The Nintendo Switch title boasts 156 speedrunning minigame trials from 13 beloved NES (and Famicom) games. To our delight, this collection includes the one and only original The Legend of Zelda, and…

The season of giving is just around the corner, and fans of the Zelda series know that unless you go to specialized gaming stores or do some searches online, collectibles from the series can be difficult to find. That’s why I was excited about this officially licensed Tears of the Kingdom Collector’s Box by CultureFly, which is available at Target. The retail price of $29.99 USD isn’t bad considering that there are several goodies inside. I saw someone posted it…