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The creative process in video games, films, and television is very complex, and it is always fascinating to see how characters, settings, and story events evolve over the course of development. One of the best tools for exploring the development of a project are “making of” or “art of” reference books. These books often contain concept art from different points in a project’s development along with interviews with key figures involved in the project. Over the past decade, Nintendo has…

Tears of the Kingdom is an absolutely massive game, and it required a soundtrack as sprawling and epic as its map in order to do Hyrule justice. Like Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom utilized a variety of composers to construct its sprawling soundtrack. The game features the work of four composers: Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, and Tsukasa Usui. As part of a post on Nintendo’s Japanese recruitment website (as translated by Nintendo Everything), Tears of the…

Nintendo announced today that the next Indie World Showcase will take place tomorrow, April 17th at 7 AM PST / 10 AM EST. The company promised “roughly 20 minutes of announcements and updates on indie games headed to Nintendo Switch in 2024.” You’ll be able to watch the Indie World Showcase live stream on Nintendo of America’s YouTube channel right here. Indie World Showcases have become a spring-time tradition for Nintendo in recent years, so today’s announcement wasn’t a complete…

What is up, everyone?! Are you ready to kick off another Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest? Truth be told: I fully to planned to have a contest ready for you all last week. But when I realized that an eclipse was to take place last Monday, I scrambled to find a Tears of the Kingdom screenshot that fit with that particular solar phenomenon. I came up short, as you could have guessed by the lack of contest, but here we are…

The game we now know as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was first unveiled to the world at E3 2019, roughly two years after the release of its predecessor Breath of the Wild and roughly four years before its eventual release in May 2023. Thanks in part to an ambition from the developers that no one could have expected and a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic, this hotly anticipated sequel was victim to a protracted development period, multiple delays,…

I never would have thought to pair a marimba and violin together to cover the title theme of Ocarina of Time, but I am so glad the YouTube channel Classical Covers did. The music from the opening sequence from the 1998 game is nostalgic and iconic. Adapting the theme from the flute that calls the wind in The Legend of Zelda, it invokes a sense of dreamy childhood, and perhaps waking up at sunrise to go on a new adventure….

Welcome back to the show this week, as we delve into a fantastic new Zelda fan album from acclaimed producer Jokabi and record label GameChops called “Zelda’s Lofi Kingdom“! This is a soothing, melodic album that remixes some of the best tracks from Tears of the Kingdom, so this week, we delve in and review the album, talking our favorite tracks, nicest remixes, differences between this album and the Zelda & Chill series, what tracks we might have left off…

Everyone’s favorite professional wrestler and actor, John Cena, caused rumors to bound throughout the Zelda fandom by posting a no-context photo of 8-bit Link from the first game on Instagram earlier this week — unintentionally or otherwise. There wasn’t even an accompanying description. Sifting through the comments, the cryptic image caused many to question, “But, what does it mean?” No matter what it means, it’s certainly amusing. The obvious assumption is that John Cena is being cast in the upcoming…

Tears of the Kingdom’s Lead Sound Engineer, Junya Osada, Physics Programming Lead, Takahiro Takayama, and the Technical Director, Takuhiro Dohta, revealed fascinating insights about the game at the 2024 Game Developers Conference. The three gave a presentation called “Tunes of the Kingdom: Evolving Physics and Sounds for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” which gave fans an exciting behind-the-scenes look into an underrated aspect of the game. Tears of the Kingdom’s technical achievements are arguably the reasons behind…

Since the era of the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Sony and Microsoft having implemented achievement systems on their consoles which provide an incentive for players to achieve unique or impressive feats, and to track progression in games. The most common achievements — or “Trophies”, as they are called at Sony — are unlocked by defeating bosses, racking up high scores in mini games, or by finishing the game at varying difficulties. Others require the player to perform actions that…