A New Zero

Nintendo has just announced the release date for its upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie. If that sentence sounds familiar, it's probably because this is the third time the film's release date has been tweaked. The good news is it hasn't been delayed again--in fact, it's now coming out sooner than previously planned."I would like to let you know that the worldwide theatrical release date for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda has been moved up to April 30, 2027, from May 7," Nintendo veteran Shigeru Miyamoto said via a recent post on the company's X account. "The team is working hard t

ZA/UM's espionage RPG doesn't quite sell its spy story.

One of the first things I learn about myself in Zero Parades is that I'm a fuck-up – an omnishambling bad omen with cropped hair and unfair cheekbones. Before I was put on ice, I was supposedly one hell of a spy. But that was then, and this is now. The veteran spy fallen from grace is not a new story, but in careful hands, it is almost always a great one. There are so many tiny little things that go right and wrong for an agent in the field: an indifferent tsunami of luck and skill and wildcard entropy that keeps going until the last plastic domino lands on the worst outcome. This is how