Whilst looking over the Nintendo Press Kit for this year's E3, it seems Nintendo gave some interesting news about the new Zelda game, coming this holiday season. This is the main paragraph that stands out: "Explore a massive, multilayered world that seamlessly blends soaring exploration in a sea of clouds with intense ground-based adventuring that blurs the line between the main world and ... more.

Sometimes I play old games and get the feeling that developers need to stay a step back and look at the good old days of gaming. I'm not some old dude that's stuck in the past that thinks the last console worth owning was the SNES, but I do find myself playing games from the 1990s and think "why aren't more games like this?" So, here's a quick look to four games and the lessons developers can lear... more.

Gamasutra has an article up that deals with designers and audience assumptions. Dave Grossman, at Telltale Games, had his mother-in-law play the first Sam and Max episode from the first season. In the game she had to give cheese to a rat, the problem is Sam and Max don't have the swiss cheese he wants. The solution is to use your gun on the cheese to put holes in it and this solution never occurr... more.

Since the early days, games have had glitches. Some are good, some are bad, and a few are just downright annoying! All gamers at one time or another have encountered a glitch while playing their favorite games. And Nintendo has had its fair share of glitched games since the beginning. Probably the most famous glitch in video game history comes from Nintendo themselves. The original Super Mario... more.

Months ago, Nintendo revealed that they are working on a new Zelda game for the Wii. All that we had to go on was a concept image of a swordless Link and an unknown female character. Many people have made speculations about who this new character is, from the Great Fairy Queen to her being some sort of incarnation of the Master Sword. What we do know for certain to be truth: The game will d... more.