After almost two years, Nintendo’s first Direct finally landed online. Full of small announcements and surprises, the only thing missing from the show was a reveal date for The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and an Advance Wars revival. While that lack of news made for a moist night as I cried myself to sleep, the rest of the stream wasn’t too bad!
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity falters greatly in its narrative. The time-traveling aspect felt like a cheap and easy way to rewrite history without actually adding much to the established lore. That said, this did allow Princess Zelda to shine which ended up being a pleasant surprise. The gameplay is the main hook and it’s a bloody fun one at that. There is lots to love here if you can ignore the weak story.
From the streets of Gotham to the far reaches of the Multiverse, here are the best comic book covers of the week!
Despite the success of Sonic the Hedgehog, it appears many US moviegoers aren't so keen on more films based on video games.
This year’s E3 dropped a surprise announcement during a Nintendo Direct livestream, as the big N confirmed that there was still plenty of gold to mine from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. No release date was given for the sequel, but one reliable source of information reckons that they’ve got that window roughly pegged.
Between the quaint villages, football stadiums and bustling big cities, there exists a zone that is wilder and untamed. Appropriately named the Wild Area of the Galar region, this huge slice of land where the various towns and cities can be found is aiming to be absolutely massive in scale. How big? How about two entire regions from Breath of the Wild stacked next to each other big.
You ever wish that you could see your favourite video games taken in a wild new direction? Maybe you’d be keen to see another developer take a crack at a franchise, or maybe you’re hungry for some new blood. Here at Critical Hit HQ, we feel you fam. On a slow news day, we got bored of tossing machetes at Brad and decided to whip up some awful awful photoshop of video game mash-ups that we reckon could sell like the hottest cakes nay save video games as we know them.
In a quick top ten, raise a glass and salute the work of audio wizards who came up with the following bits of sound so good, we can’t help but smile every time we hear them.
Every year in the gaming industry, there is a familiar buzz that starts building …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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