Category: Zelda News

Almost a year since its release, Tears of the Kingdom continues to receive more accolades for what it has accomplished. Honors for the Zelda team continue to pour in, as the game was nominated for seven awards at the 2024 Game Developers Choice (GDC) Awards. While the newest title in the Zelda series didn’t take home all the gold from the ceremony, it was still given some well-earned recognition. This year’s GDC Awards saw Tears of the Kingdom take home not…

Tears of the Kingdom boasts an impressive array of possibilities for players to create just about anything. Players may not think so much about the mechanics behind how it all works, but many in the gaming industry have recognized Tears for its technical marvels that allow players to let their imaginations run wild. Recently, three Tears of the Kingdom developers discussed how they decided on this main mechanic and its unique challenges at a panel at the Game Developers Conference….

It was only a matter of time before Japanese figure manufacturer Good Smile gave us an update on the much-anticipated Tears of the Kingdom Link Figma figure. The company first teased an early build for Max Factory’s model back during Anime Expo 2023, later sharing a full image of the figure at the Winter 2024 Wonder Festival earlier this year. The wait is officially over, as both Nintendo and Good Smile finally revealed this morning on their official X profiles…

As we encroach on Tears of the Kingdom’s first anniversary, there is no better time to celebrate its monumental wins than now. After winning IGN’s Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure Game at The Game Awards and D.I.C.E., Link and Zelda should be flying higher than the Great Sky Island. Tears also received BAFTA nominations and Game Informer recognition as a top game of the year. This isn’t even an exhaustive list, but it’s time to add another medal to…

Gyorg’s name incites some shivers, and Twinmold puts up a monstrous fight of its own. The bosses in Majora’s Mask are debatably some of the toughest in the series, and the puzzles and side quests are ten times as demanding on the ego. Imagine not rolling into any crevices, avoiding every trap, and taking a stand against Majora — all without a lick of damage. Make this task even more intense by filling every corner of your inventory, grabbing Masks, Heart…

On Thursday, April 11th, the 20th BAFTA Games Awards will highlight the “outstanding level of creative excellence” from a variety of developers across the world. While BAFTA is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the organization behind the ceremony has been honoring innovations and achievements in videos games for the past two decades. The first BAFTA Game Awards were given out in February 2004, where The Wind Waker won the Adventure Game award. At the 2018 BAFTA Game…

On February 26th, 2024, Nintendo filed a U.S. federal lawsuit against Tropic Haze, alleging that the developer is responsible for the pirating of over 1 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom during the week and a half preceding the title’s May 12th, 2023 release. According to Nintendo, Tropic Haze’s open-source Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gives users the ability to “unlawfully decrypt and play virtually any Nintendo Switch game — including Nintendo’s current generation and most…

A sealed copy of the 1986 classic The Legend of Zelda went to auction last weekend, and it had some experts speculating at a six-figure sale. Kiro, a 22-year-old from California, says his family purchased this game in 1987 for $29.87 USD.  They never played the game after all these years, so it remains in its plastic wrapper, still adorned with the original price tag. After looking the game up on eBay, Kiro was surprised with what he found, saying,…

The famous Ocarina of Time Any% speedrun world record (WR) by Murph_E hits the game’s ending cutscene in an astonishing three minutes, 50 seconds, and 950 milliseconds using a complex technique called Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). However, the most competitive, active Ocarina speedrun community is the “Defeat Ganon No Stale Reference Manipulation (SRM)” category, which used to be the Any% method before ACE was discovered. On January 18th, 2024, one speedrunner, Daniel Baamonde (or Dannyb), accidentally toppled the conventional “No…

United Kingdom and Honk Kong-based collectible company First 4 Figures (F4F) has been slowly building out its The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild line over the past few years. With the release of the Champion Daruk statue last year, finally bringing the 2017 Zelda game’s entire main cast to the F4F storefront, we were curious to see how the company would further expand its Zelda catalog. Would First 4 Figures continue to draw inspiration from Breath of the…