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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is now available, and for those who want to get their hands on a guide to help them explore every inch of it, both the Standard and Collector’s Edition Official Guides are now up for preorder with a release date of June 16, 2023. Better yet, both editions are on sale. While you’re waiting for your hardcopy guide to arrive, there’s no sense to flail around Hyrule directionlessly when we already have one of the most comprehensive Tears of the Kingdom guides online.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was the best selling game of April 2023 despite only being available for two days before sales for the month stopped being recorded.

According to the latest figures from Circana (formerly NPD), EA’s long-awaited sequel to 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order overcame Dead Island 2, PGA Tour, Minecraft Legends, and all other new releases to take the top spot and instantly become the 4th best selling game of 2023 so far.

Dead Island 2 came in second, followed by MLB: The Show 23, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Hogwarts Legacy, PGA Tour, Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, FIFA 23, and Mario Kart 8 in tenth.

Sony has announced that an hour-long PlayStation Showcase will take place next week on May 24, focusing on games coming to the PS5 and PSVR 2.

Announced in a PlayStation Blog post, the event will start at 1pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 9pm UK (so 9am on May 25 AEST) and run for “a bit over an hour” on PlayStation’s YouTube and Twitch channels.

Though it remains vague about what fans can expect, Sony does promise to showcase games in development “from top studios around the world” and offer “a glimpse at several new creations from PlayStation Studios” alongside third-party and indie partners too.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a sold an eye-watering 10 million copies in its first three days on the market, making it the fastest selling title in franchise history.

The early sales milestone also makes it the fastest selling Switch game ever in the Americas and the fastest selling Nintendo title on any system released in the region.

Nintendo also revealed that the Zelda series overall has sold 130 million units as of March this year, before Tears of the Kingdom’s ten million sales have been added at all.

With the vast majority of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom beholden to the players’ imagination and drive to discover, no two journeys through Hyrule will ever be completely alike. The only true power Nintendo has over your adventure is the start and end point of its main story, with the former needing to be expertly curated in its direction to give you everything you’ll need to flourish from that point onwards. It’s a level of bold authorship that trusts the player to write the rest of their story.

Crafting an opening as strong as Tears of the Kingdom’s is no mean feat, and while many games of the past have wowed with their introductions, I’m not sure any have quite nailed it like Nintendo has here.

Online services for Pac-Man 99 will be discontinued later this year, though some game modes will continue to be available for some past the October 8 deadline.

Pac-Man 99 is currently available for free for those with a Nintendo Switch Online membership, with multiple paid themes and other DLC available to download from the digital console marketplace.

However, online services for Pac-Man 99, including its public and private battle royale modes are set to be delisted permanently in October, at which point Nintendo will also halt the distribution of free custom themes for the game, according to a new post on the Nintendo website.

Modern Warfare 2’s border crossing map Santa Sena has caused a lot of frustration for fans and developer Infinity Ward has finally responded to the feedback.

Speaking to Dexerto, multiplayer design director Geoff Smith explained that Infinity Ward didn’t necessarily aim to create a perfectly balanced map with Santa Sena, but instead just wanted something fun.

“Map-wise, we try to have a balance between experiential maps and the more competitive maps,” he said. “Not all of them are super sweaty, balanced ones. There’s ones where ‘hey, it’d be really cool to fight over a border crossing.’”

The map was criticised due to its narrow layout but also because of the bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Bandai Namco has announced that it will be rolling out Patch 1.2 for Tales of Symphonia Remastered on May 18, just over three months after its release. But fans are still angry over the issues that have been present in the game.

According to the patch notes the company released on its site Tuesday, the update will fix a variety of quality-of-life issues that players have reported since the game came out in February. These include:

• Fixed an issue that was causing significant processing slowdowns while moving through the sandstorm area of “Triet”.
• Fixed an issue where the game would freeze at the end of certain boss battles.

If you’ve started compiling a collection of digital games, you probably already know just how limited the Switch’s base storage capacity. The Switch and Switch OLED have 32GB and 64GB of internal storage respectively. Some of that is reserved for the OS. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom takes up over 18GB of storage all by itself. Other must-have titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Pokemon Sword or Shield tap out at 13.5GB each. There’s only one expansion slot in the Switch console so you want to make sure you get the biggest card you can afford.

With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom now out in the world, everyone has been slowly exploring its massive world and story and, along the way, running into fan-favorite characters making their returns for a second adventure after Breath of the Wild. In trailers alone, we saw Link and Zelda (of course) alongside Prince Sidon, Riju, and Tulin, and even more make appearances in game. But there’s one major Breath of the Wild cast member that’s seemingly MIA, and fans are trying to track them down.

Warning: Spoilers for a potentially missing character in Tears of the Kingdom, as well as their role in Breath of the Wild, follow below the video.