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An astonishing demo build for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has turned up fresh details on early ideas for Nintendo's N64 masterpiece - such as Link being able to turn into his fairy Navi. The demo in question was found on an old N64 development cartridge used to hold Nintendo racer F-Zero X. On further inspection, files relating to a 1997 Zelda demo build were also found, partly saved-over but some very much still intact. [Read More]

BioShock creator Ken Levine spoke recently of how he's ready to move away from the linear narratives that he's curated for the past 19 years to embrace something new. Since the inception of the series in 2007, this tightly-scripted form of expression has been one of BioShock's great strengths and has facilitated some truly memorable narrative moments - but it has also been to the series' detriment. This was most keenly felt in Burial at Sea: Episode One, which seemed more concerned with nailing the impact of its return to Rapture than with providing a fully-formed gameplay experience. [Read More]

Previous page Page 4 of 9 Next page The Ashes of Ariandel's Champion's Gravetender and Gravetender's Greatwolf boss fight comes after you've done visited the Rope Bridge and Ariendel Chapel areas. If you need to retreat and seek help with other parts of the DLC, then see our Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel guide and walkthrough. Champion's Gravetender, Gravetender's Greatwolf boss fight The Gravetender himself shouldn't present too much difficulty - deal with the wolves that are in the area first, and once it's down to just him simply keep out of range of his lunge attacks and when he performs a leaping attack roll towards him and you should pass under him giving you a short window to hit him from behind. [Read More]

Free trials are coming back to Final Fantasy 14. Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki Yoshida made the announcement in his most recent Letter from the Producer Livestream broadcast (thanks, NME) earlier today, confirming the free trial will be available from 22nd February next week. Free trials were pulled at the end of last year, after a massive increase in its player base resulted in long queues ahead of the release of the new expansion Endwalker. [Read More]

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about our thinking about it in an editor's blog. Developed solely by Eric Barone, known as ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley is an embodiment of what one game developer can achieve through hard work, dedication and a lot of determination. [Read More]

King's browser games portal, home to some of the company's biggest hits such as Candy Crush, Bubble Witch and Farm King, will shut down in December after 18 years of operation. RoyalGames.com (formerly King.com) was the birthplace of the company's biggest franchises, before they were transferred onto Facebook and mobile apps. It has also been home to paid versions of such games, where players can pay a fee to enter tournaments or play head to head games. [Read More]

Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain includes a chicken hat item that will let you skip sections of the game that you find too tricky. The downside, of course, is that Snake is forced to look ridiculous while doing so. Images of the item were first shown by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima during a Christmas Day livestream for Japanese fans. Publisher Konami has now provided clearer pictures of the item, and explained its purpose in detail. [Read More]

Nintendo fixes one of Mario Kart 8's only shortcomings in a generous port of a modern masterpiece. If it's artful understatement you're after, look no further than the manual for Mario Kart 8 in all of its glorious entirety: I love it for several reasons, not least for how it's an example of a dying form (and in the case of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch, relegated to the flipside of the cover itself, a boon for environmentalists but a blow to traditionalists like myself who get lost in fits of reverie at the mere sniff of a freshly opened manual). [Read More]

Medal Of Honor Warfighter Layoffs at EA Montreal and Los Angeles as gargantuan company manages console transition Army of Two developer affected. 27 EA: "We should've done better" with Medal of Honor: Warfighter Compares series return to new Mutant League Football. 49 Navy SEALs punished for helping with Medal of Honor Because it was average err maybe. 38 UK chart: Medal of Honor: Warfighter boots FIFA 13 from top spot But sells less than 2010 Medal of Honor reboot. [Read More]

Monster Hunter Rise's Sunbreak expansion is drawing ever-nearer to its June release on PC and Switch, and, in anticipation of its eventual arrival, Capcom has offered a closer look at its new Citadel map and new armoured monkey monster Garangolm in action. Come Sunbreak's release, players will have the opportunity to depart for new climes, with the bustling port town of Elgado Outpost serving as the expansion's colourful new hub area. [Read More]