Category: Zelda News

Nintendo’s newest title, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, dominated UK sales charts in May. Tears of the Kingdom released on May 12th, 2023, as the largest Zelda game launch in UK history and quickly became the region’s 3rd best-selling Zelda game in lifetime sales, trailing only behind Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild. What’s more impressive is that Tears of the Kingdom accomplished this feat without taking digital sales into account, which Nintendo has yet to…

Spoiler Warning: While this article does not discuss specific spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom, it does discuss unused content discovered within the game’s code. The video linked in the Source below does contain spoilers for the game. Dataminers have been going through the code of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and have made a couple of notable discoveries.  Chiefly, they found two unused patterns of paraglider fabric, one called “Princess Zelda” and the other “Gerudo King.” It’s not…

TooManyGames, the longest running video game and board game expo in Pennsylvania, returns to Philadelphia this month. The convention will include special guest appearances, concerts, cosplay pro wrestling, a free arcade, a marketplace, and gaming tournaments. Some of the more notable guests at the show this year include Patricia Summersett (voice actress for Princess Zelda in Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom), Charles Martinet (voice actor for Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi), David Hayter (voice actor for…

Tears of the Kingdom is a massive game, and the amount of content within is completely overwhelming. Whether it is Shrines, Lightroots, or Korok Seeds, the game has so many different things to keep track of. Fortunately for the players looking to be completionists, Zelda Dungeon has an interactive map that includes an extensive list of filter options across The Sky, The Surface, and The Depths. The interactive Tears of the Kingdom map from Zelda Dungeon has garnered praised from…

Vanpool, the Japanese game studio behind the Nintendo DS Tingle titles and the 3DS-based Dillon series, has been dissolved, according to a statement released on the company’s website. Vanpool’s official dissolution took place on May 31st, with the company citing “various circumstances” for its decision to disband. Vanpool, founded in 1999, forged an ongoing partnership with Nintendo in the 2000s through its contributions to the DS and 3DS libraries. The company developed 2006’s Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland, a quirky Zelda…

Update: Twelve pages of the Complete Official Guide to Tears of the Kingdom are currently accessible for free on publisher Piggyback’s website, as part of a “Free Guide Trial.” According to Piggyback, this guide trial “offers you 12 pages of the Complete Official Guide for free. These pages are fully searchable on your device: tablet, phone, and PC. Enjoy!” You can access the Free Guide Trial right here. The pages cover the first few main quests of Tears of the Kingdom,…

Disclaimers: The following article contains minor gameplay spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom. The interview that is being covered was conducted via translators and was edited by Polygon staff members for clarity. The abilities in Tears of the Kingdom seem quite silly when you simplify them, with one of them being magic, endless green glue that sticks things together. Ultrahand, however, is one of the many ways in which Tears of the Kingdom excels in promoting the freedom of the player….

Fans around the world are still exploring Tears of the Kingdom‘s massive map and soaking in every detail of the latest Zelda game. I wouldn’t be surprised if all that time in Hyrule is affecting how we see the world outside the game. I can’t be the only one seeing potential Korok hiding spots out in the real world, right? Nintendo Japan recently announced, via the official Legend of Zelda Twitter account, another way to take Tears of the Kingdom…

Spoiler Warning: The article below contains minor spoilers for the first couple hours of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It is possible the comments section could contain spoilers in both pictures and words. Please click at your own risk. Sorry, folks; the days of 999 Diamonds, Star Shards, and Dragon Horns have passed. After seemingly being left untouched in Tears of the Kingdom‘s 1.1.1 update, Nintendo has squashed quite a number of the item duplication glitches in…

Since May 12th, I have been glued to my television screen playing Tears of the Kingdom practically non-stop. I am in complete awe of this game — it’s scope is beyond anything I ever dreamed of, as The Sky and The Depths add more new content than I thought they would. Even The Surface, with its caves, wells, and the ramifications of the falling Sky islands and the newly formed Chasms have transformed the landscape we are so familiar with,…