Opinion: Truly great games
Leigh Alexander on how personal context shapes our views of a game’s level of quality and importance.
2Leigh Alexander on how personal context shapes our views of a game’s level of quality and importance.
2Nintendo of Europe has announced a limited edition 3DS console celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Legend Of Zelda. A copy of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D will be bundled with the system, which will be on sale in Europe on November 25. More >
2The Mogwai bassist on gaming soundtracks and making time to play on tour.
But good news for Nintendo as Ocarina climbs nine places and Xenoblade Chronicles debuts in seventh.
Workout title makes it nine consecutive weeks on top as Zelda sales reveal first green shoots of 3DS's recovery.
1In a press release, Nintendo reveals that it sold more than 800,000 systems in the US last month, but it's new glasses-free handheld, 3DS, was comfortably outsold by its predecessor. Over 386,000 DS systems were sold in June, more than double 3DS's sales of 143,000. There was better news for Nintendo in the software charts, though, with 283,000 copies of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time sold during the month.
Speaking during the latest Iwata Asks interview, Shun Moriya, a programmer at The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D developer Grezzo, has revealed that the studio deliberately retained some of the N64 version's bugs for posterity. "The staff members who had played the old game said the bugs were fun!" he said. "We were like, 'What?!' It wouldn’t be fun if your friends couldn’t say, 'Do you know about this?' So we left them in if they didn’t cause any trouble and were beneficial." Anything that might break the game was removed, albeit reluctantly: "If something simply could not be allowed to stand, we begrudgingly fixed it, so some bugs don’t appear, but we left in as many as we could, so people will grin over that."
1Nintendo handheld tops hardware sales for the first time in two months, though Ocarina misses out on number one.
1Ocarina Of Time 3D kept from top spot as Child Of Eden fails to make top 20.
1As Link makes his 3DS debut, we re-evaluate gaming's greatest adventure.
8The man absolutely no one prefers to call Patch Adams is, of course, a logical choice for the US Zelda marketing campaign: he named his daughter after the titular princess, after all. Here he is, promoting the game's imminent release along with said daughter, and a remarkable beard, even by our own high standards of facial topiary.
2The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D will be released in Europe on June 17, Nintendo has announced.
Following the Japanese launch of Nintendo's revolutionary handheld, we deliver our impressions of its key games.
"More than 30" games to be released between launch day and the start of E3 on June 7.
Everything in Ocarina of Time is realised with an elegance rarely seen in videogames.