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There’s always something new to find in Hyrule

It has been, at this point, six years since the 2017 release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Switch launch title, and Nintendo’s swan song on the Wii U, made an indelible mark on the industry with its approach to the open-world space.

Tomorrow, on May 12, its sequel The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be released. In fact, our review of it should already be live right here, right now.

The meteor has been delayed

Prehistoric narrative adventure Goodbye Volcano High is shifting dates. Publisher and developer KO_OP announced that Goodbye Volcano High has been delayed to an August 29, 2023 release date.

Originally scheduled for June, this is only a delay of a couple months for the narrative title. In a post from KO_OP, the studio says the decision was made after taking a look at its production schedule.

Two models are on the way

Asus has officially unveiled the arrival windows for its new handheld gaming PC, the ROG Ally. This looks to bring some more competition to the market, with one model arriving in June and another sometime in Q3.

The first-available ROG Ally is the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme model, which boasts up to 8.6 teraflops and a 512 GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, as well as a 7-inch 1080p, 120 Hz FHD screen.

It’s dangerous to have Zelda opinions. Here, take mine!

You can learn a lot about someone by asking what their favorite The Legend of Zelda game is.

It’s a series so vast and so popular that anyone who plays video games has some opinion of it. You have the people who got into video games because they played Ocarina of Time as a kid. You also have the people who say Zelda has never been good since it went 3D. Even the games someone didn’t play can be revealing.

It’s in the title, after all

The Legend of Zelda seems like one of the most puzzling names for a video game series, if only for the fact you never play as Zelda in any of the mainline games. Instead, you play as Link, leaving the titular character for the franchise in more of a supporting role and even the frustrating damsel in distress at times.

Stay outta my ring

Arc System Works has released a rough rollout plan for a series of long-time-coming fixes for its flagship fighter, Guilty Gear Strive — These fixes are chiefly directed toward to problems that players have been facing online, and are particularly aimed at reducing the grief caused by lobby-breaking trolls.

‘New Title X’ should be the final name, honestly

Publisher Koei Tecmo has announced that it is partnering with Japanese developer Akatsuki Games to produce a brand new, currently unannounced new game for Gen 9 platforms. As reported by Gematsu, this collaboration was announced in Akatsuki’s recently published financial report.

‘Why that cover?’

We’re now only a few short weeks away from the highly anticipated launch of Street Fighter 6, but Capcom isn’t done with the marketing machine just yet — Tomorrow, two of the scrapper sequels top-tier developers will host a special live stream in order to field questions from budding World Warriors.

And pretty much just Tears of the Kingdom

Nintendo doesn’t have any other marquee games to pump out this week: it’s all Zelda all the time for the foreseeable future.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out on May 12, and it’s fantastic. I think a lot of folks are going to be surprised by how much it innovates on the already-successful Breath of the Wild formula, and there’s a lot of spoiler-heavy stuff to shield yourself from.

Link shoots for the top

Now that the review embargo has passed, gaming outlets across the globe have released their scores for Nintendo’s stellar Switch release The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — And the fantasy adventure string of five-star reviews are already rocking the scoreboards of review aggregate sites.