"Zelda has a Game Awards history"

A reader is surprised to find Resident Evil Village nominated as game of the year at The Game Awards and explains why he doesn’t think it deserves it. As a much newer media than TV, film, books, and music the video games industry is always looking for legitimacy and ways to prove it is a genuine artform on par with the others. One of the ways it’s tried to do this is through an equivalent of the Oscars.

Vague talk of "action" has shown little public change in relationships, though.

The Wii is 15 years old! We take a look back on the Wii 15th anniversary to see what made the Nintendo Wii a great console, and where it fell short.

Spencer says the gaming industry should work to preserve video games.

Two decades on, developers for its original launch talk about creating games for Microsoft’s debut console

Curious to know how GTA: The Trilogy's release went and what problems to look out for? This article breaks down all the issues people are having with the game.

It’s not hard to play the original Legend of Zelda games. With each new hardware release, Nintendo trots out its 8-bit Hyrule adventures again, giving players a chance to relive (and rebuy) the games that started it all. If you’re a Switch Online subscriber, for instance, you can play them right now on your Switch.

"It should never have appeared as it did in-game."

The first NPC I met in the Elden Ring network test wholeheartedly encouraged me to find a ditch to die in. This was mere seconds after I left the tutorial area. So yes, FromSoftware hasn't gotten any kinder in the past few years, and early hands-on time with Elden Ring (on PS5) has convinced me that the house of Dark Souls has only gotten more devilish, indulgent and creative.

While we wait to see how Battlefield 2042 handles in a live environment, our early verdict on the upcoming FPS is in

Sony's PlayStation 5 may not be able to beat the PS4's first year sales record due to an ongoing component shortage..

Bethesda Game Studios is "absolutely" still committed to single player games, according to creative director Todd Howard – but that doesn't mean it won't experiment with adding social elements to solo experiences.

Five Netflix games are ready to install from the App Store.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is No.1 in the UK boxed charts, comfortably ending FIFA 22's lengthy spell at the top. Activision's shooter primarily sold on PlayStation platforms, with PS5 accounting for 41% of sales, PS4 29%, Xbox One 19% and Xbox Series X and S 11%.

Battlefield and Call of Duty. One brought giant-scale all-out warfare to the mainstream. The other brought the mainstream to first-person shooters. Call of Duty and Battlefield are both titans of the FPS genre, attached at the hip and endlessly pit against one another, and 2021 sees the two heavyweights going toe-to-toe again, with the launches of Call of Duty: Vanguard and Battlefield 2042 just a couple of weeks apart.

By Emma L. Barratt. Collaboration with several large games publishers involved almost 40,000 players.

Someone has presented a case study for why both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 have bad UX designs. In short: Too many clicks to get you where you need to go.

Update: A Netflix representative has clarified the timing of the rollout plans for the games.

As the new consoles from Xbox and PlayStation approach their first birthday, neither will be celebrating with a new-gen-only game. There has been a sprinkling this year, but no such games are on the horizon for months.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeWhy it matters...