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For the videogame map enthusiast, there would be nothing sweeter than hanging this diorama of the overworld from A Link to the Past over the mantle, at least until your significant other made you remove it. The miniature, 1:1, 3D model is handsomely constructed of paper and is easily framed in a dee
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A certain savvy minority of player will tell you that Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, re-released yesterday for PS3 on the PlayStation Store, is superlative, and those fine few individuals would be correct. What makes this old, brutal, cyberpunk-y, cell-shaded, ambiguous-moral-choice-making, demon-ba
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With the upcoming release of Rebirth, a look back on Edmund McMillen’s Freudian nightmare.
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I was super-impressed along with everyone else when I saw the code’em-up Hack ‘n’ Slash at a live demo a month ago. The idea is that you solve puzzles like those found in the overhead Zelda games, but instead of dropping bombs and pushing blocks, you pull up a computer terminal and alter the code.
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Here’s a feel-good story about the educational power of games: a group of kindhearted educators have founded The Play to Learn Lab in Cape Town, South Africa. Their initiative? To use games to familiarize underprivileged primary school kids about technology. To do this affordably, they’re constructi
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Stop everything: this is the best peripheral ever.
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Sometimes you can go home again, at least in virtual reality. A guy going by Dark Akuma is recreating Link’s happy boyhood village from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Oculus Rift. The software allows you to explore the quaint woodland clearing from the Nintendo 64 game in all it’s bloc
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When you pick up a new Zelda game, such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, there are certain things you automatically expect. A little elven lad in a green tunic? Check. Fractured shard of a magical triangle? Check. Wacking chickens with your sword until they gang-tackle you? Check. The
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Nintendo announced a confounding but potentially cool new Zelda title for Wii U today. Dubbed Hyrule Warriors, the latest adventure for our peach-fuzzed wonder is being developed by Tecmo Koei, not Nintendo. The game will be chockablock full of action, as Link will find himself facing an unfamiliar
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In games, we face strange questions that don’t tend to come up in other mediums. Here’s one. When did The Legend of Zelda become a genre? Hack ’n’ Slash is a rather blatant homage to the series starring a stubby elf in the green tunic who’s saved the world with a bow, boomerang, and hookshot on num
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You have always been playing it.