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This week the Game Rant crew discusses the future of The Legend of Zelda, the Spike Video Game Awards, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and how long developers should support their games post-launch. Join us an share your thoughts! Two Visions of Zelda’s Future (by Jeff Schille) This week saw two potentially important announcements about the future of the Legend of Zelda. First, longtime series producer Eiji Aonuma broke the news that, going forward, every Zelda game can be expected to include motion controls, as in Skyward Sword....

Original story follows. The games industry has been making a lot of progress in increasing accessibility in recent years, which has been a great thing to let more people play the games that they love. Although there is still a lot of progress to be made across the industry, as evidenced by a Path of Exile player with a disability who has come forward saying that they were banned from Path of Exile for using a macro they need to play the game....

In real life, instead of facing reapers, creepers, and other monsters, you face life challenges, hardships, and a host of negative emotions, which are the things that take many people down or have them get stalled or stuck in life. Building your own personal reward system is one technique to give you the benefits that gamers get — staying engaged, feeling like you are making progress, and enjoying your accomplishments....

RELATED: Best Survival Horror Games Of The Last Console Generation Those that become monsters are forced to hunt down the pack of players and put them down, before they have a chance to escape the area. It’s a fun release that takes the idea of Prop Hunt and amps up the danger. Although, for some, it seems a bit “unpolished” in its current state, it’s still a blast to play with friends....

RELATED: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Vs Majora’s Mask – Which Game Is Better? However, this upcoming game is far from the first to explore gameplay with time loop phenomena. There are plenty of games out there that have thoroughly investigated how to tell a fascinating story and make a compelling game where time keeps resetting. They range in genre, from horror to adventure-comedy, and vastly differentiate in mechanics. Some are famous while others are a little more obscure....

During the madness surrounding DICE’s Gamescom 2011 press conference, Battlefield 3 producer Karl Magnus Troedsson discussed the game’s co-op missions. He revealed that these will be separate from the single-player campaign of Battlefield 3 and will actually have little if anything to do with the single-player narrative. They will share a few basic environments, but the co-op maps will all be unique to that particular mode. Battlefield 3 will ship with six of these singular co-op maps....

In an interview with CNBC, GameStop CEO Paul Raines said that hundreds of GameStop locations have been designated as PokeStops and Gyms and those locations have been seeing increased business as a result. “We surveyed our stores, and we had 462 stores just this past weekend that are Pokemon Stops or Poke Gyms, so we did some family events and our sales were up 100 percent in those stores,” claimed Raines....

To coincide with the release of South Park: The Fractured but Whole, a whoopee cushion has been released. Currently available from Ubisoft, as well as from GameStop for $19.99, this cushion comes in at 14" by 14", complete with two alternating pressure-activated fart sound effects and a soft boa plush applique. “Place it on your couch and watch your friends’ and family’s reactions as they unknowingly sit and activate the fart sounds,” says Ubisoft of this rather left field choice of merchandise....

The talismanic Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve and one of the minds behind Steam, has long been a fan favorite across gaming circles. The man has a backstory that would pique the interest of just about anyone; a Harvard dropout that made enough money working at Microsoft during their boom period to forge his own video game studio. Today, he’s a billionaire — but that doesn’t mean he’s lost his sight of the bigger picture....

Game 7. Win, or go home. Each team has protected its home floor in the first six games of the series, which is a good sign for the 2 seed Celtics. Boston’s 14-point win in Game 2 was its biggest margin of victory in the series as Games 1 and 5 were decided down the stretch. The Bucks have shown that they can keep things close at TD Garden, but a complete effort is needed to get them over the hump....

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has received three nominations including the Award for Game of the Year. Other notable nominees for various categories include the likes of Splatoon 3 and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Safe to say Nintendo has given Switch players quite a fun roster of games to play this year. Here is a look at all of Nintendo Switch’s first-party exclusive games that have received nominations in the Game Awards 2022....

It’s important to highlight that the Game Critics have specific criteria for game award selection at E3. Everything that is eligible for an award must be playable by the Game Critics judges for at least 5 minutes. So any hands-off demos from the E3 2019 event would not be eligible for the main awards, although these games can win special commendations. For example, Marvel’s Avengers is not eligible for any award because the demo was highly guided and not playable....

Without further ado, here are our individual choices for Game of the Year. Hannah Shaw-Williams - The Stanley Parable A lot of great games came out this year, but The Stanley Parable was the only one that had me raving to friends about how they should drop everything and play it immediately. Hilarious, charming, and constantly surprising, The Stanley Parable puts the nature of gaming under a microscope and gets stuck in your mind for a long time afterwards....

The show starts off strong on Thursday with familiar titles such as Dead Rising 2, Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, and Halo: Reach all on display. Friday follows much in the same vein, as we will see Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Gears of War 3, and Twisted Metal Returns. Saturday, the last day for video games at Comic-Con, might be the day with the most variety to offer, with panels ranging from everybody’s favorite dancing studio (MTV Games) to everybody’s favorite cartoon mouse (Disney Epic Mickey)....

The day after Thanksgiving, commonly referred to as Black Friday, is one of the biggest shopping days of the year and it officially kicks off the holiday shopping period. The day is famous for great deals and crazy crowds, but it can also be a terrific time to pick up all those video games you meant to buy during the year, but never did. Wondering where to line up during the early hours on November 26, 2010?...

The gamer, named Wanikun, has kept the system plugged in all this time to keep his save data for a game called Umihara Kawase intact, which has to be some kind of record. This means his console has racked up over 175,000 hours of continuous usage, and is still ‘plugging along’ somewhere in Japan right now. By now one might hope that he would be able to beat the game blindfolded, but perhaps its being kept around by pure nostalgia rather than active use....

On a day when the first unified Korean Olympic team took an emotional bow, the Games suffered a fresh doping blow with the suspension of Slovenian ice hockey player Ziga Jeglic. It came soon after a Russian bronze medallist in curling was suspended for failing a doping test and a Japanese short-track speed skater was similarly kicked out of the Games in South Korea last week. Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky tested positive for the banned substance meldonium and Moscows sports minister waded into the controversy on Tuesday when he said the athlete was innocent of knowingly taking the drug....

It’s pretty easy to see what GameStop’s up to: letting die-hard fans try out some highly anticipated titles is a great way to build buzz right before they go on sale, and with the $40 entry fee, the retailer will probably make a few bucks on the side, too. And yes, some of the titles on offer are kind of puzzling. Super Mario Maker and Destiny’s Taken King expansion both come out a few days after the expo (September 11 and September 15, respectively), and it’s hard to imagine that it’ll be worth the money just to try those just a week or two before release....

The NES Classic was released in November 2016 and then discontinued in April earlier this year. Even though the hardware was officially supported for six months, virtually all stock was sold out for the duration. It may as well have been a joke Nintendo played on the masses, considering how few were able to actually purchase an NES Classic. It’s an astonishingly popular device, but nostalgia-hungry Nintendo fans would pay anything for those 30 classic games....

A thread on video game forum ResetERA is filled with unhappy GameStop customers who say that their pre-orders aren’t being displayed on the site. The retailer’s financial troubles have been well talked about and it laid off more than 100 employees as part of a cost-cutting effort last month. Some on ResetERA had wondered if the company was cancelling the pre-orders because it knew it would be going out of business soon and so would be unable to fulfill pre-orders of products like the Cyberpunk 2077 collector’s edition....