Month: October 2024

Nintendo is continuing its Ask the Developer series of published interviews with game development leads, this time on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. In parts 1 and 2 of this interview, the company reveals a number of tidbits about Echoes of Wisdom, including Grezzo as the elusive co-development studio behind the project and Tomomi Sano as the game's director, and first-ever female director on The Legend of Zelda series.You can read the full interviews yourself, but here are some highlights. First off, Sano has a rich history in the industry, earning her first credit in 1998 for editing stage textures on Tekken 3. She began working with Nintendo in 2004 as a coordinator on Mario Party 6, and over time was involved in a number of Nintendo-published and supported projects. Her fi…

X/Twitter will have to comply with a subpeona regarding the identities of several Genshin Impact leaker accounts after a federal judge ruled against the social media platform's attempt to throw it out.The news comes from Torrent Freak and Stephen Totilo's Game File newsletter, detailing the latest in miHoYo's crackdown on leakers. Cognosphere, the miHoYo-owned publisher of Genshin Impact, filed the subpeona last fall, attempting to force X Corp. to “disclose the identity, including the name(s), address(es), telephone number(s), and e-mail addresses(es)” behind four popular leaker accounts: @HutaoLoverGI, @GIHutaoLover, @HutaoLover77, and @FurinaaLover.NEW(ish): A court has ruled that X/Twitter must comply with a subpoena issued last fall to unmask the identities of accou…