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Google just got a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Easter egg that transports you back to the 1998 version of the search engine — complete with blue links for results.
The remake of the Nintendo 64 classic comes out this Thursday, November 5, but you can find the secret on Google now if you type “zelda” into the search bar and press enter. This makes the Master Sword appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Click the Master Sword and it gets shoved into its pedestal, an audio effect plays, and the screen distorts to pull you through time. Now you’re back at the old, useful, minimalist Google that showed search results as a series of blue links for people to click on.
What you’re seeing is Google from 1998, the year the original Ocarina of Time launched. It was the year of the Saving Private Ryan movie, the rise of teen pop icons like Britney Spears and breakthrough television shows like Sex and the City. The Boy Is Mine by Brandy and Monica would have been blasting from the stereos of passing cars, kids would have been playing with Furbys, and everyone was rocking a Nokia. Ah, nostalgia. Google’s 1998 version even has the “I’m feeling lucky” option, which would just take you to a random search result.
As Nintendo has pulled back the curtain on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, we’ve begun to get a better understanding of how this Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive will look and feel to play. IGN has already got you covered with an extensive hands-on preview, as well as a roundup of all the changes we’ve noticed so far compared to the N64 masterpiece.
While you wait, check out a special episode of Nintendo Voice Chat where we dive deeper into our Zelda preview. Meanwhile, Eiji Aonuma, producer of the Zelda series at Nintendo, recently admitted some of the younger members of his team had never played the original game, but insisted that was very much a good thing for the development of the remake.
Niftski, the speedrunning world record holder for Super Mario Bros., beat his own record on a Halloween livestream while dressed as Mario. Speaking in character, he said: “Hopefully I don’t get this today because that would be very stupid.” Guess what?
This Halloween run, which you can watch on Niftski's YouTube channel, shaved 0.33 seconds off the previous world record, also held by Niftski — two frames away from a perfect run.
4:54.299 SMB1 ANY% WORLD RECORD ON HALLOWEEN WHILE LARPING AS MARIO! It doesn't even feel real that I actually achieved this, but here we are. Only 2 frames (33 milliseconds) stand between this run and absolute perfection / TAS tie. 4:54.265 next! https://t.co/S1ZpmEMG4c
— Niftski (@Niftski) November 1, 2026According to Niftski, those two frames were lost early in the run and kept him away from a “perfect run,” theorized to be the absolute pinnacle of Super Mario Bros. “any percent” attempts. He messed up fast accelerations in the first and second rooms by a small amount which cost one frame each.
If it is accurate and there are no more strats to bring the time down significantly, that just leaves the run and those two frames. That means there’s only two milliseconds left, which means there are only two more world records possible in the category.
“Will this be like the first ever game perfected? Like what's gonna happen once someone matches the TAS? It's just over?” asked one fan.
Niftski breaks the SMB1 world record while doing the worst Mario impression ever. Frame-perfect hands, not-so-perfect voice 🍄 https://t.co/B21YnDkrwH
— imngrok • Stream Clips (@imngrok) November 1, 2026Niftski sits alone at the top of the speedrunning records, and it seems the only person who can beat him is himself, dressed as Mario. He holds the records for warpless, glitchless, and the “any percent” category, which is a race to the end by any means necessary, skipping whatever you can using exploits and glitches.
It’s that last category he beat this Halloween, taking his previous record of 4:54:332 down to 4:54:229 — that’s minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. About halfway through the run, he committed fully to Mario and let Nintendo fill his heart.
According to the speedrunner, being a doofus and pretending to be Mario helped. “It made me not nervous at all,” said Niftski, “it doesn’t even feel real. It felt so casual.”
“I can't believe I witnessed a russian mario do the 67 and get any% wr in the same video,” said one X / Twitter user who watched the stream.
Image credit: Niftski / YouTube.
Phantom Blade Zero is officially the next big thing. Developer S-Game has announced that its wuxia-themed action game has surpassed a significant milestone in just a few days.
Within 72 hours of going on sale, Phantom Blade Zero has sold 4 million copies. The official X / Twitter account posted the news with a message: “Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support!”
Even on its first day, it was clear this was going to be a beast. Phantom Blade Zero was ahead of Steam’s biggest games, from PUBG to Dota 2, topping the Steam charts as soon as it launched. It was also the best-selling game on Steam by revenue, ahead of Modern Warfare 4, Aion 2, and Probably Stolen, a Cyberpunk shopkeeper sim that's going viral. Steam concurrents peaked on Sunday with a whopping 833,921 players.
The early success shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Last week, it was estimated that Phantom Blade Zero had sold over 1 million copies before launch across launch platforms Steam and PS5, and Tencent’s WeGame (an online PC storefront in China). Nearly two thirds of total prelaunch sales were from China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong.
IGN's Phantom Blade Zero review returned a 9/10. We said: "Phantom Blade Zero is an unbelievably smooth action game filled with memorable boss fights, compelling combat, and limitless swagger."
Phantom Blade Zero is a monster hit, but it's not quite on par with Black Myth: Wukong, which managed 10 million sales in the first three days.
Roger Craig Smith — best known as Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio Auditore, Batman, and Chris Redfield — plays the lead character. The actor is joined by Mu Xiaokui actor Maggie Robertson, who played Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil 7. Elsewhere in the cast, Donnie Yen served as a key creative consultant and stars as the character Mó Yuan (Soul's father) through full facial, voice, and motion capture.
Before you step into the Phantom World, we’ve put together a helpful list of Things Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Tell You. We’ve also got a step-by-step Phantom Blade Zero Walkthrough in progress, plus guides for the game’s Weapons, Accessories, and Phantom Edges.
Behaviour Interactive has responded after what appeared to be a Dead by Daylight collaboration with controversial streamer TheBurntPeanut caused backlash in its community.
Halloween weekend may have been more eventful for the team behind the hit multiplayer horror game than they may have expected. What started as a relatively contained negative reaction has since exploded into a full-blown breaking point for players, with some reporting that they've uninstalled Dead by Daylight after seeing its developers work with TheBurntPeanut.
The Canadian studio was first put on the hook by the more vocal members in its community when they discovered the streamer, who gained popularity over the last year for playing extraction shooters like Arc Raiders, was dipping his toes into the horror multiplayer game for the first time. The Halloween season was bound to result in a small uptick in attention for Dead by Daylight, but for those who have stuck by it through its 10 years of service, the jump scare arrived when the streamer revealed he had been gifted access to its entire rogues' gallery of Survivors and Killers.
Some people on Twitter were not happy about TheBurntPeanut getting streamer privileges in Dead by Daylight https://t.co/wk5DsrRFeg
— yeet (@Awk20000) October 31, 2026"Wow! Wow!" TheBurntPeanut said while scrolling through dozens of instant unlocks during his Halloween stream. "Guys! I just got all the guys!"
Dead by Daylight initially starts players with a small selection of playable characters, with anyone interested in unlocking others required to use in-game currency to purchase them. Costs can range from a somewhat small amount of earnable currency (Iridescent Shards) for original Survivors and Killers, to around $5 of premium currency (Auric Cells) for licensed characters, such as The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes or Alien's Xenomorph. Prices vary further for those looking to purchase cosmetics.
No one seemed to bat an eye at TheBurntPeanut's interest in Dead by Daylight, but receiving official support from the developers raised a series of new questions from fans. The nature of this collaboration stream was not previously detailed or promoted in any capacity, leaving many to criticize what the streamer also mocked as "streamer privilege." The real issue for many, though, is with what it means to see Behaviour back this specific creator.
TheBurntPeanut has been the subject of much controversy in his small amount of time in the spotlight for on-stream behavior many consider to be offensive. While others have defended him as simply "edgy," Dead by Daylight's vibrant group of progressive users have said they feel Behaviour has betrayed those who have otherwise felt safe in the community.
"This is why I'm continuing to step further away from Dead by Daylight," one popular post on X/Twitter said. "This is embarrassing, especially since there are still AMAZING creators who you haven't been approved into your program yet who have devoted their careers to DbD."
"For anyone not in the know," one popular Reddit thread posted in the aftermath of yesterday's stream said, "DBD has added a bigoted creator to their creator platform."
I cannot word how disappointing and disgusted I am.
I know full well this is just 1 BHVR employee, ive met some amazing people in the space and they would never let this happen.
@DeadbyDaylight you need to make a response and I'm hoping you don't double down here.
There were dozens upon dozens of posts like this across social media, but the storm really picked up when supposed screenshots of Twitch chat messages from Behaviour began to circulate. Responding to the online outrage, the studio reportedly sent support TheBurntPeanut's way, with the most infamous message saying, "WE CAN TAKE THE HEAT! THEY ARE YOURS TO KEEP!"
This is where reports of players uninstalling Dead by Daylight really took off.
"This is the crowd @DeadByDaylight is catering to and welcoming into the community," another player said while sharing screenshots of posts from X users attacking the Dead by Daylight community, with some using a series of slurs. "Yes, this is the exact fanbase of this streamer. Not just a few 'bad apples.' It’s bewildering how this exact same conversation already happened with Fortnite a couple months ago and [Behaviour's official community account] @DbDPulse still felt proud to back it."
The mention of Fortnite is a reference to this summer's drama around TheBurntPeanut's inclusion in the battle royale and the subsequent toxic backlash it created.
So Dead by Daylight fucked up...
and I uninstalled.
@DeadbyDaylight @Behaviour https://t.co/5U1IihMygR
In 13.3K hours I never removed Dead by Daylight from my PC.
Time ago I was really vocal about the dangers I saw incoming: I chose the wrong methods to fight and fell victim of the negativity caused by what I wish I was stronger at facing, but in that mess I was still right.
1/X https://t.co/9C2b4oNdJY
It's been a whirlwind 24 hours that has now come to a head with an official response from Behaviour. On its @DbDPulse X account, the developer admitted that one of its team members had awarded a streamer in-game content "without receiving appropriate approvals." Its statement also acknowledged that "the team member's subsequent comments and conduct do not align with Dead by Daylight’s core values."
"When concerns about this decision became apparent during the stream, we should have responded by looking into these concerns, not dismissing them," the note continued. "Unfortunately, we’ve now seen the fallout of this decision unfolding in many conversations across the DbD community. We appreciate and stand with our community’s willingness to ensure our shared values are being upheld, at all times, regardless of popularity, and we’re heartbroken at the inflammatory language now being directed towards our community."
As the outrage surrounding TheBurntPeanut's time in Dead by Daylight took hold of the community, some moved to uncover the identity of the Behaviour team member responsible for giving him access and issuing responses. The studio alleged that some players threatened its employees, saying that such conduct "will never be acceptable." It also asked followers to "stop engaging with these posts."
This weekend, a Dead by Daylight team member awarded in-game content and currency to a creator streaming our game. Although it is not unusual to unlock content to give creators discovering DbD a chance to have a sneak peek at available content, this decision was made without receiving appropriate approvals. Furthermore, the team member's subsequent comments and conduct do not align with Dead by Daylight’s core values.
When concerns about this decision became apparent during the stream, we should have responded by looking into these concerns, not dismissing them.
Unfortunately, we’ve now seen the fallout of this decision unfolding in many conversations across the DbD community. We appreciate and stand with our community’s willingness to ensure our shared values are being upheld, at all times, regardless of popularity, and we’re heartbroken at the inflammatory language now being directed towards our community.
At the same time, threatening employees will never be acceptable, and we’re asking everyone to stop engaging with these posts.
We apologize to our community for letting you down. We have already begun reviewing our internal processes to prevent an incident like this from happening again.
"We apologize to our community for letting you down," it continued. "We have already begun reviewing our internal processes to prevent an incident like this from happening again."
This response, too, has been met with backlash, with most Dead by Daylight players still upset that the situation was allowed to progress to this stage. Popular posts from the community call the team's message a "nothing-burger," with others accusing the developers of attempting to skirt criticism by sharing the response on its DbD Pulse account (21.1K followers) instead of the official Dead by Daylight account (1.3 million followers) or Behaviour Interactive account (110.5K followers).
"DBD won’t feel safe to stream any time soon, unfortunately," one player said in response to the message. "This just isn’t good enough.
he doesn’t even like the game 😭 https://t.co/72ds3UIHSR
— mina 💓 (@orelarosetoy) November 1, 2026"You know what’s funny?" another response said. "This wasn’t even a good business decision lmao. You spent 10 years building a progressive community. Who do you think is buying all those Feng & Sable cosmetics? Your progressive community. The streamer that you guys spent an entire afternoon defending played DbD for 2 hours & is now done with the game. So now you’re left with no new players or financial gain from his community & your actual community is now aware that you don’t actually stand by the values you claim to have."
That's where the situation rests for now. It's unclear if Behaviour will publicly share any additional updates regarding how the stream and content rewards for TheBurntPeanut came to be, or what action may be taken.
The year 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of Dead by Daylight. Although it has come with major reveals, including Friday the 13th's Jason and Terrifier's Art the Clown as playable characters, it's not been without its sour moments, too. Another speed bump arrived last week when the studio announced Child's Play Killer, Chucky, would soon no longer be available to purchase. The team clarified the reasoning for his removal – and his chances of coming back – in a statement sent to IGN.
Yakuza series creator Toshiro Nagoshi’s studio has officially shut down before it had the chance to release a game.
Gematsu reported that the Tokyo-based Nagoshi Studio closed its doors via a shareholders’ resolution on October 31. The announcement was made in today’s Japanese government gazette Kanpo.
The Yakuza-like Gang of Dragon was meant to be the debut game from Nagoshi Studio, which Nagoshi formed in 2022 with investment from Chinese megacorp NetEase after he departed Ryu Ga Gotoku a year earlier. But doubt was cast on its future in March when NetEase signalled its intention to cut off funding as part of a broader retreat from international video game investment.
According to Bloomberg, NetEase made the decision to cut Nagoshi’s funding after it learned Gang of Dragon needed at least another ¥7 billion (approx. $44.4 million) to be completed. Nagoshi was apparently trying to find new investors to help buy the studio out, without much luck.
The studio closes nearly a year after Gang of Dragon enjoyed a flashy reveal at The Game Awards in December. Now, it looks like it may never see the light of day.
Photo by Daniel Pearce/Edge Magazine/Future via Getty Images.
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World of Warcraft
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EVE
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New World
New World is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing video game by Amazon Game Studios set to release in May 2020. Set in the mid-1600s, players colonize a fictional land modeled after British America in the Atlantic Ocean. Players scavenge resources, craft items, and fight other players.
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