An avid gamer from a young age, Shane's first experience with interactive entertainment was with the N64 back in 1998. After picking up one of those absurdly shaped controllers, and taking control of ...

Jared Carvalho is a Contributor from the United States and a longtime fan of video games, having started the hobby with a SNES when he was six and never looking back since. He often finds himself ...

The Legend of Zelda has been an enduring part of gaming for decades, with the fantasy epic’s first entry serving as one of ...

The Legend of Zelda series is all about its grand stories wrapped around influential action-adventure gameplay that has always left an impact on any gamer across each entry. This is not what makes ...

In a franchise packed with silent heroes, ancient evils, and more timeline splits than a Marvel multiverse, one identity twist still gets fans buzzing: Sheik. When The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ...

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The N64 game's unconventional three-day time limit added an emotional touch to the storytelling that wouldn't have been ...

Proving that a great aesthetic can outshine realism every time, Wind Waker remains one of the most beloved games in the ...

Co-released with Laced Records, it’s the first-ever physical soundtrack that Nintendo has sold in the United States ...

Erin Rice is a Contributor from the United States. She has a Master of Arts in Composition and Rhetoric and works as a professor and Academic Advisor. She has been writing about video games for a ...

There is no lack of drama in The Legend of Zelda. Whether it’s the perpetual return of Ganon, time travel hijinks, or sleep-induced amnesia, there’s always something interesting going on in the land ...