THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD

Danielle Riendeau Sep 13, 2022. 2 minute read

I Hope There’s Hoverboard Racing in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

(Hyrulian) Hoverboard racing in the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Yes, please! In today’s Nintendo Direct, the sequel to one of the finest game’s of the generation (Breath of the Wild, yes) finally got its name and launch date (Tears of the Kingdom, and May…

Imran Khan Sep 13, 2022. 1 minute read

The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is Named Tears of the Kingdom

As part of today’s Nintendo Direct, we finally got the latest news on what everyone has been calling Breath of the Wild 2 but Nintendo refused to name until now. Titled The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, we got surprisingly few details of the game, but I imagine people will…

Charles Harte Jun 30, 2022. 4 minute read

Reviewing 8 Video Games by How Good It Feels To Chop Down a Tree

If a video game has crafting, it’s basically guaranteed that you’re going to be chopping down trees at some point. It’s a decades old gaming ritual that’s so common you hardly even think about it. But what if we did think about it? What if we ignored graphics, story, music,…

merritt k May 11, 2022. 2 minute read

Dude, Bouldering is the Ultimate Gamer Sport

Indoor rock climbing was all the rage when I was kid in the 90s — it was right up there with laser tag as one of the most popular activities for sporty/rich kids’ birthday parties. As a decidedly non-sporty/rich kid, I didn’t really take to it back then. In fact,…

Kenneth Shepard Mar 29, 2022. 1 minute read

Surprising No One at All, Nintendo Delays Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel to 2023

In an announcement that isn’t all that surprising, considering the company’s barely spoken about it in the past year, Nintendo has pushed the untitled sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild into next year. News came from a video update from Zelda series Producer Eiji Aonuma, who confirmed the Switch…

Imran Khan Jun 15, 2021. 3 minute read

I Hope Breath of the Wild 2 Still Has Weapon Durability

There’s a lot of divisive splits in the gaming industry, but few are as bitter as the topic of weapon durability in Breath of the Wild. The 2017 Legend of Zelda game is often considered one of the best games of all time, but a contingent of players bristle at that assertion.…

Nerium Jun 15, 2021. 3 minute read

Zelda Fall Down Big Hole Go Bye-Bye

The latest Breath of the Wild sequel trailer looked unsurprisingly snazzy at the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct. Also unsurprising, for the first direct Legend of Zelda follow-up in a grip, is that it looks very familiar. Same style, same Hyrule, same Link, same Zelda, plus some Skyward Sword-ass freefalling and floating islands: it’s…

Kenneth Shepard Jan 4, 2021. 2 minute read

Modder Claims Breath of the Wild’s NPCs Are Created Using Advanced Miis

Have you ever wanted to see yourself recreated in the style of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Well, it turns out that is actually very much possible, as the game apparently uses an advanced version of Nintendo’s Mii system called UMiis to create its NPCs. This means if…

Natalie Flores Sep 26, 2020. 2 minute read

Watch the New Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Footage From Tokyo Game Show

Back at the beginning of the month, Nintendo announced Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. It tells the story of the cataclysmic event that overtook Hyrule a century before the events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, plenty of new footage of…

Ewan Wilson Jul 3, 2020. 6 minute read

Video Game Birds Most Likely to Prophesize Your Ironic, Untimely Demise

There’s no shortage of memorable moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. One of my favorite scenes from the classic horror film happens right before the feathered foes launch their first coordinated attack. Outside of the schoolhouse, Tippi Hedren’s character Melanie observes a small group of crows perched atop a jungle gym. Nothing…

Virginia Paine May 11, 2020. 6 minute read

Gaps and Pauses: The Role of Negative Space in Games

At the end of Act 1 in Diablo 3, you’ve descended through the Highlands and the Halls of Agony, battling Khazra, Dark Cultists and the fearsome Warden to meet the Butcher. After a pitched battle across a fire-ridden arena, your character defeats the Butcher and continues into the Cells of…

Stacey Henley Apr 2, 2020. 4 minute read

Video Game Food Is Nourishment for These Hobby Free Times

If you’re a millennial, it’s a known fact that you’ve personally killed at least three industries, businesses, or hobbies. It’s nothing to do with the housing market ladder getting pulled up in front of you, skyrocketing rent, or stagnant wages. It’s because you — yes, you reading this right now…

John Warren Jan 15, 2020. Less than a minute

Late Lunch January 15, 2020: Derekdorf

Late Lunch is back!!! Well, it’s back on the website. Listen, we’ve gotten…comfortable with our posting schedule here. But 2020 is 15 days in and we’re going to get so much better at making sure that our Monday, Wednesday, and Friday talk show with Niki, John, and Andrew is always…

Nerium Jan 14, 2020. 1 minute read

Fanwidth (A Fanbyte Podcast) Episode 46: Rated M for Meaty

Danielle, Niki, and Steven try to fill the void left by an empty fourth chair this week with lots of winter talk! There’s still not much new in games out, so the gang chooses to go over what we play during the winter months instead. There’s also a good deal…

Sam Desatoff Dec 16, 2019. 9 minute read

The 13 Best Games on the Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch launched over two years ago now, and in that that time the home console / handheld hybrid has hosted a boatload of fantastic titles across every genre imaginable (well, maybe not strand games). As we head into the holiday buying season, those looking to gift a Switch…

Kenneth Shepard Sep 22, 2019. 1 minute read

Streamer Beats Zelda: Breath of the Wild Using Only Shields

In an incredibly impressive show of patience, YouTuber and Twitch streamer PointCrow has found a way to beat The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild without using any weapons whatsoever. The play through took 27 hours, according to his Twitter, and to pull it off he utilized an infinite jump glitch to…

Moira Hicks Aug 29, 2019. 6 minute read

The Revelation of Link: The Legend of Zelda at the End of the World

Sometimes, in The Legend of Zelda, the world ends. Forces that are simultaneously beyond our understanding and all too human align and everything falls apart and then, the game starts. There’s a lot of work about life after the end of the world and there’s a lot of work about…

John Warren Aug 8, 2019. 4 minute read

10 Game Voices Improved By H. Jon Benjamin

Visiting John DiMaggio’s IMDB page reveals how versatile the voice actor is. Over the years, the voice of Jake the Dog and Bender has lent his pipes to video games, as well. DiMaggio is perhaps most well-known in games spaces for his portrayal of Marcus Fenix, protagonist of the Gears of…

Fanbyte Staff Aug 1, 2019. Less than a minute

Video: Which Zelda Game Has The Best Lost Woods?

Annie Mok May 16, 2019. 4 minute read

Why Games Need Better Non-Player Characters

Of all of the various epithets hurled around by right-wing internet users, “NPC” is the least immediately obvious in its meaning. “Cuck” is pretty straightforward, as is “SJW.” But what does it mean to call someone an NPC? David Futrelle describes the term in this context as “a sort of…