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Issue #62: Wide Open Spaces – November/December 2022
🕑 Added 2022-10-24 20:25:17 +0000 UTCAirfare is expensive.
Train tickets. Cruise vacations. Even just the gas to refuel your own car can bankrupt you if you drive too far! Traveling in the real world isn't financially feasible for the vast majority of people around the planet.
Luckily, there's countless ways to explore all- new worlds for the low, low price of $59.99! Video games have offered escapes to new landscapes for decades now, and in recent years the open world genre of games has prioritized players' feelings of freedom and exploration above all other aspects of design.
And you know what? It works! Sure, I'd love to have the time and the cash to be able to jet off to exotic lands on Earth whenever I wanted, but getting lost in an immersive world like Hyrule is so much more convenient.
For this edition of our fine publication, we're turning our attention to the rise of this category of go-anywhere gaming. Why now? Because the end of 2022 is about to be marked by two series taking a bigger leap into open world design than ever before! Sonic the Hedgehog will finally get to stretch his legs in the vast expanse of the Starfall Islands in the new Sonic Frontiers, and the Pokémon series is building on the open world momentum of Sword & Shield's Wild Area and the Hisui region from Legends: Arceus earlier this year with the fully free Paldea region in the new Pokémon Scarlet & Violet. Not to mention that Nintendo's biggest open world game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is getting closer to seeing its sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, finally arrive. With an even open-er world than before!
All that and more lie ahead for you in this NF issue! Happy exploring!
Print subscribers, your physical copies are in production now and will be mailed out later this week. Deliveries should happen to most addresses in the United States in the early days of November.
Digital subscribers, keep an eye on your email this Wednesday, October 26. That's when I'll send the download link for the PDF edition!
Thanks as always for your continued support, everyone! This issue actually marks the conclusion of our 10th year of publishing! Our 10-year anniversary celebration will happen next time, so please look forward to it!
~ Lucas M. Thomas
Comments
The Nintendo Force
It's now on sale over at NFMagazine.com!
Is there any way to get the Pokémon issue? I would love to get it
The Nintendo Force
Hey Michael! You can order a copy of the issue over at NFMagazine.com. Along with lots of our older issues too, plenty of which feature Pokémon!
Hello, I just signed up for your print edition on 10-27 and was wondering, am I too late to get the November/December issue that is already in production? My son loves Pokemon and is getting a Switch for Christmas, so this would be perfect for him.
