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Talking Point: amiibo Have Always Been Physical DLC, Skyward Sword HD Is No Different © Nintendo This week Nintendo unveiled a particularly charming amiibo that'll tie in to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, and it's arguably one of the most handsome figures yet. It's also caused a bit of a storm on social media and in comments sections here on the site, with plenty of vitriol to go around. The source of the argument is simple - a quality of life (QoL) feature will seemingly only be available by scanning this particular amiibo. Rather than relying on heading to a save statue or jumping ...

Source: iMore amiibo were Nintendo's answer to the "toys-to-life" phenomenon that Disney Infinity and Skylanders made so popular. Starting in 2014, during the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U era, these plastic figurines promised a whole new way to interact with your games while providing some cute memorabilia for your shelf. The figurines facilitated this through the Near Field Communication (NFC) chips stored in their bases, which could be scanned and read or write data to themselves or a game, depending on the title. This pleased many fans initially, as some figures to be released depicted ...

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) customers will be able to play Destiny at select stores on Saturday, July 19. The three-hour event (which is scheduled to run from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) will be held at 71 Best Buy stores nationwide. All participating locations can be found at BestBuy.com/GamingEvents.... Read More...

The game's revenue has increased during the pandemic after having slowed down the previous year.

Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz recently, Blind Squirrel CEO and founder Brad Hendricks says creating new IP was the initial idea when the studio was founded 11 years ago, but there was a good reason to put it off so long. "In the back of my head, I wanted to be a studio putting out some really great IP, but I also realized it was a small studio," Hendricks says. "I didn't have the draw. I didn't have the pedigree like some of these guys who come out of really big studios where they can start a company and get funded immediately and bring in great talent."