{"id":10045,"date":"2023-05-18T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/pushing-buttons-the-secret-to-tears-of-the-kingdoms-success-its-the-genuine-escape-we-all-need\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:37:47","slug":"pushing-buttons-the-secret-to-tears-of-the-kingdoms-success-its-the-genuine-escape-we-all-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/pushing-buttons-the-secret-to-tears-of-the-kingdoms-success-its-the-genuine-escape-we-all-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: The secret to Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s success? It\u2019s the genuine escape we all need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: The Zelda sequel\u2019s all-encompassing approval says something about how important games have become in our cultural lives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019re playing Tears of the Kingdom, right? Everyone<em> <\/em>seems to be playing it. Even people who I didn\u2019t even know were into video games have asked me if it\u2019s as good as they were hoping. I was on the BBC News at Six talking about it, which delighted me because, for many, many years, the BBC didn\u2019t pay attention to video games unless someone had claimed they were destroying children\u2019s lives or deemed them opaquely responsible for a violent event. I had a fun conversation about it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/12\/1175893490\/the-new-zelda-game-tears-of-the-kingdom-lives-up-to-the-hype\">NPR\u2019s Consider This<\/a>. I\u2019ve written about five articles about it in the past week and, apparently, I still haven\u2019t exhausted the topic.<\/p>\n<p>It is pleasantly surprising that the world at large has taken such an interest in Tears of the Kingdom, because for most of the 30-odd years that I\u2019ve been playing Zelda games, they have been the nerdy connoisseur\u2019s choice from the Nintendo canon. When I was a teenager, the only other people I knew who loved Zelda were fellow geeky kids who were into fantasy novels. A huge proportion of game developers and critics love Zelda, but the games have never been bestsellers. Indeed, before Breath of the Wild, the leading Zelda game was the 2006 emo-era classic Twilight Princess (my least favourite, don\u2019t @ me), which sold around 9m copies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/may\/17\/pushing-buttons-tears-of-the-kingdom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/825cd525045fd9324db532ceaddbf30fe7fd4620\/120_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=98ba06b4ee615161316cc90966dd87bf\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: The secret to Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s success? It\u2019s the genuine escape we all need\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: The Zelda sequel\u2019s all-encompassing approval says something about how important games have become in our cultural lives<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nYou\u2019re playing Tears of the Kingdom, right? Everyone seems to be playing it. Even people who I didn\u2019t even know were into video games have asked me if it\u2019s as good as they were hoping. I was on the BBC News at Six talking about it, which delighted me because, for many, many years, the BBC didn\u2019t pay attention to video games unless someone had claimed they were destroying children\u2019s lives or deemed them opaquely responsible for a violent event. I had a fun conversation about it on NPR\u2019s Consider This. I\u2019ve written about five articles about it in the past week and, apparently, I still haven\u2019t exhausted the topic.<br \/>\nIt is pleasantly surprising that the world at large has taken such an interest in Tears of the Kingdom, because for most of the 30-odd years that I\u2019ve been playing Zelda games, they have been the nerdy connoisseur\u2019s choice from the Nintendo canon. When I was a teenager, the only other people I knew who loved Zelda were fellow geeky kids who were into fantasy novels. A huge proportion of game developers and critics love Zelda, but the games have never been bestsellers. Indeed, before Breath of the Wild, the leading Zelda game was the 2006 emo-era classic Twilight Princess (my least favourite, don\u2019t @ me), which sold around 9m copies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: The Zelda sequel\u2019s all-encompassing approval says something about how important games have become in our cultural lives Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here You\u2019re playing Tears of the Kingdom, right? Everyone seems to be playing it. Even people who I didn\u2019t even know were into video &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/pushing-buttons-the-secret-to-tears-of-the-kingdoms-success-its-the-genuine-escape-we-all-need\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: The secret to Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s success? 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