Why The Longing Takes Four Hundred Days to Play

Time’s a funny thing, isn’t it? We’ve got so much of it and yet it never feels like enough. So many games are about time, and they’ve all got different ways of using it to motivate and manipulate players – but what’s the underlying truth behind the way video games use chronology?

To find out, The Architect is going to have to go deep, deep underground to play with a little game called The Longing which, as the name may imply, is very very long indeed.

Surprise! Nintendo just announced a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild prequel for Switch

Nintendo has announced Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, a prequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

It’s due out 20th November 2020 on Nintendo Switch, and is set 100 years before Breath of the Wild.

“Witness the events of the Great Calamity first-hand and try to save Hyrule from destruction!” reads the official blurb.

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8BitDo is making a customizable arcade stick for Switch and PC players

It’s time to fight with style. 8BitDo has unveiled a new arcade stick that looks like the lovechild of a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Street Fighter V cabinet. The peripheral, which supports PC and Switch, has a bunch of customization options to suit different players. It has a “universal mounting plate,” for instance, so fighting game enthusiasts can swap in sticks and buttons made by other manufacturers. It also supports 8BitDo’s Ultimate Software so that, unlike the company’s old N30 arcade stick, you can change the button mapping, save custom profiles, and execute macros with the P1 and P2 options in the top right-hand corner.

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Nintendo Leak Reveals Portable GameCube Console

A new Nintendo leak has revealed an alleged portable GameCube console. That’s right, Nintendo was apparently experimenting with a portable version of the GameCube, though it’s unclear how exactly this would have been realized. As you may know, 2020 has been a prolific year for Nintendo leaks, and it looks like Nintendo’s leaky ship isn’t entirely plugged yet, because a new leak has surfaced online, and is currently making the rounds.

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