 This morning we have a bunch of news for you guys coming from Nintendo because for some reason Nintendo decided to drop a ton of news in the middle of the night. We have news on a brand new Kirby game, Zelda concerts, a new Donkey Kong thing, the update for Splatoon 3's DLC, also a brand new Zelda something to talk about here coming from the music community. So we have a lot to go over. We're not going to waste any of your time. Let's go ahead and dive right into our very first story and this deals with Kirby. So how laboratory is hiring for a new Kirby game? This is their post literally over on Twitter. It says looking for Kirby development staff three weeks left until the deadline. Would you like to create the quote unquote Kirby of the stars series with us? We are looking for entries from enthusiastic and experienced game developers. They have a deadline to apply by February 13th, etc, etc, etc. And a lot of their hiring posts are for 3d animators, 3d artists and programmers. Now this is obviously all fascinating news and it just gets the speculation going on what this Kirby project is that they're hiring for. Is it another 3d Kirby game to go in line with the likes of Kirby and the Forgotten Land? Is it a completely different 3d Kirby game going in an all new direction? Is it more side scrolling Kirby just with 3d art assets? Look we don't really know what it is and then you're going to start to think well what are they going to do is mouthful mode coming back which is really just like a new take on the copy abilities and what is going to happen? I don't know. So you guys can go ahead and speculate on all of this down in the comments below because we are into another story. Now this next story I find to be really interesting. If you guys remember yesterday we talked about a possible Nintendo Direct leak over on 4chan and look as the day has gone on and we've had some time since it it does sort of look like the 4chan stuff might not be real. Of course it's not like we know because again the Direct hasn't happened right? But what I find interesting of course is something that a known insider has said. In fact we're talking about Necro Felipe who is in our reliable category on our rumor believability scale. So we're going to call this a rumor of course because we can't verify any of it. But we're going to go over here to a post by direct feed games aka Nate the hate where he just brings up you know that I've been wondering if we had seen the ninja or cowgirl peach costumes in prior trailers because that was one of the evidence for the 4chan stuff because you can see here there is you know a symbol for the ninja here a symbol for cowgirl this is for my prior trailer. So yeah this doesn't necessarily mean that the stuff is fake it just means that what people were acting like was proof myself included wasn't. But then we get down to the Necro Felipe here and he said that the reason that he thinks it's false is because the next Donkey Kong game will not be country. Let me repeat that again he's saying it's false because the new DK game the new Donkey Kong game is not a country Donkey Kong game. Now does that mean it's going to be a 3D Donkey Kong game? No that doesn't guarantee that and he's not saying that but obviously we associate a lot of side scrolling Donkey Kong games with the country brand they could obviously do one without the country brand but it would be quite interesting to see if they decide to go back to the Donkey Kong 64 era try to like do something new and fresh with that it is something many of us want to see we've been wanting to see Donkey Kong go back into 3D for some time but again that's not what this necessarily means and it's just a rumor it could still be a country game it could also not be a country game these are all rumors remember rumors are meant to be doubted but now we get to get into some actual news and this really caught me off guard last night when we were live streaming because hey we're going to be live streaming something quite special coming up here in February on February 9th bright and early at 7 a.m what are we talking about well Nintendo has announced that we should mark our calendars for this special legend of Zelda orchestra concert visit our official YouTube channel on February 9th to watch the full pre-recorded performance that's right we have a Zelda orchestra concert but here's the thing that's not the only part of this story why because it's not the only thing getting a concert getting into this one Splatoon SOR stage management here this show must go on the Splatoon 3 deep cut concert previously scheduled for Nintendo live 2024 will be held on February 10th it'll be posted on Nintendo's official YouTube channel so you can watch it at home and there's no time for this this isn't going to be like a live event sort of thing you know whatever it's just more and more concert goodness now it's possible the Zelda stuff is also or was also going to be part of that Nintendo live and they're just deciding to do it this way we don't really know it's quite fascinating and to me I'm just excited for the Zelda one especially since we know the exact time and thus we can live stream react to the music I can't wait man I love orchestrated music and we have more news on orchestrated Zelda music coming up but first we gotta dive into some game news because Nintendo surprised us all right and early this morning at 7 a.m central time with this tweet SOR big newsroom here with an exciting announcement side order wave two of the Splatoon 3 expansion pass paid DLC is coming at you on Thursday February 22nd join up with new faces and old friends to escape the world of order and we'll let you get a full screen of the trailer here while we continue to talk about the two three side order look very interesting is a lot of people thought this could be a Nintendo direct announcement are they clearing out their announcement slate potentially because they might be revealing a certain something I don't know that is obviously up for debate but it is fascinating that they are making the decisions they're presently making surrounding well Splatoon 3's DLC it's just nice to have a date now you guys know and we get to get into something quite cool so we have some dear friends of the channel people called Zelda re-orchestrated you guys have heard their music if you've ever come to my live streams especially and they had an announcement today so they said we are proud to announce our next big project scoring sessions a new series recorded with a live orchestra you get to help decide which arrangements we do next and you know what let's queue up their most recent one play it in the background it's glorious okay so the series begins with an iconic piece from Twilight Symphony arranged by Tim Stoney and orchestrated by Erie Barak Fisher this new rendition is brought to life by an 80 piece orchestra and choir featuring a captivating duo between Amy Turkarp and uh Demontem on what's he doing on piano hell yeah next up we've always said our fans help make zero what it is from our founding to our current operations as second quest now we're taking that statement to the next level by giving our fans the opportunity to vote on one of two proposed songs through donations on our website and purchases on bandcamp the first scoring sessions arrangement to reach its target will be recorded next while the other remains open for donations to ensure it's a ventral realization going forward supporters will also vote on future pieces to be recorded which each song having a set funding goal to acknowledge the community support donors will receive a variety awards celebrating their contribution to this groundbreaking series check out our site for more details we're going to go to their site in a moment now but you see with the launch of scoring sessions we're also unveiling a new high dynamic range edition of music exclusive to bandcamp in wave and flak formats the hdr edition is dedicated to presenting audio in its purest unmodified forward all purchases of the hdr editions will go towards funding the next to a range enough 50 50 split minus fees hozah and look that's pretty cool you guys might be wanting to know what we're well first of all where can we donate and what is next well that's where we need to go over to their actual website so we'll put a link to this down in the description for anyone that's actually interested in donating towards this project and helping fund the next one as you can see they have their they're going over all the stuff you can get and here is what you can vote on so right now their current efforts have ballad of the wind fish oh baby baby baby i love leeks awakening oh i would love for that wouldn't happen anyways ballad of the wind fish from leeks awakening and there's some details on it here a brand new arrangement and then a high rule field from twilight princess another epic song from the zelda series and you can see that here are the donate now buttons and with the goal of three thousand dollars whichever one hits that goal first is going to be the one they do first and i presume they obviously need to hit these goals because hey you know these are professional orchestras they need to get me paid right it's not just free to make music at that thing so there's a whole bunch of different levels with early access and acknowledgement and future voting rights and you know you can buy it on band camp as well so there's a whole bunch of stuff here we're going to link to this down below if you guys are interested in supporting the project zero has created a lot of amazing music over the years and i'm just really happy to show support uh i'll probably be backing the links awakening one personally well with a little bit of money over the weekend because i just want that one to happen so bad there you guys go five really big stories for you to kick off your day don't forget we have the nintendo prime podcast tonight an eight person podcast we're going to be doing a lot of crazy things including debating whether switch choose coming out in 2024 or 2025 yes we have people on both sides of the argument and so much more it's going to be one hell of a show thank you guys for being here i am the tanya ruffle jance from nintendo prime and i'll catch you guys in the next episode