Category: Zelda News

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…

Gaming convention PAX East 2024 is set to take place next month in Boston, MA, promising an exciting weekend of panels, demos, performances, tournaments, and more. And while the event won’t be sharing convention center space with a Nintendo Live event like its West Coast counterpart, Nintendo fans attending PAX East will still have plenty to look forward to. In particular, Zelda fans heading to PAX East next month will want to check out the panel “Nintendo Gone Mad –…

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), in partnership with IGN, presented the 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards last night, shining a spotlight on last year’s greatest video game achievements. Alongside other acclaimed 2023 titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, COCOON, and Alan Wake 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was nominated in several award categories, including Outstanding Technical Achievement, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and, of course, Game of the Year. Tears of the Kingdom took home…

Nintendo had a really big 2023, and it seems the company is looking to patent elements from two of its biggest titles. As pointed out in a recent Hatena Blog post by user naoya2k, it appears that patents for elements from both The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder were filed by Nintendo in 2023, though they were only recently made publicly available. Let’s look at the supposed Tears of the Kingdom patent first….