Category: Zelda News

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….

Collectors of Zelda merch better be making room on their shelves! Tears of the Kingdom Zelda and Ganondorf are joining Link in the Figma Figures line! At the recent Winter 2024 Wonder Festival in Tokyo, Japan, figure manufacturer Good Smile Company exhibited a bunch of upcoming products, including the company’s trademark Figma figures and Nendoroids. The trio of Tears of the Kingdom Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf were among the exhibition. We previously reported on the reveal of Link’s figure, and you…

Last year saw the public debut of life-sized Link and Ganondorf statues based on the characters’ appearances in Tears of the Kingdom. Link saw his reveal shortly before the release of Tears of the Kingdom, with Ganondorf surfacing last November. Now, the lineup of the game’s big three is finally complete, with the recent reveal of the final player! Here Princess Zelda makes her debut, coinciding with the recent Zelda orchestra concert, completing the trio. The union of these statues was originally planned for…

Back in December, it was announced that, due to persistent threats to staff and spectators alike, the 2024 Nintendo Live event to have been held in Tokyo, Japan had been cancelled. While Nintendo confirmed that the tournaments scheduled for the event would be postponed, the fate of the scheduled Legend of Zelda live orchestral concert remained uncertain… that is until just a little over two weeks ago, when Nintendo revealed that we would still be getting the performance, but in…

A new financial report from Nintendo confirms that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has sold 20.28 million units as of December 31st, 2023, making it the ninth best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch. With 780,000 units sold in Q3 of FY2024, Tears of the Kingdom is poised to surpass the Switch’s eighth best-selling game, Super Mario Party, which currently sits with lifetime sales of 20.34 million units. Reported as well is the ranking of the 10 best-selling games…

Viz Media recently announced that the long-running manga adaptation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess by Akira Himekawa is getting released as a box set in Fall 2024. According to a post on Viz Media’s X (formerly Twitter) account, the box set will include all 11 volumes and a collectible, double-sided poster. The manga adaptation of Twilight Princess was published in Japan from 2016 to 2022, with the English translation releasing from March 2017 to April 2023. Like Akira…

One of the key recurring events in the video game industry is The Game Developers Conference. GDC is a yearly conference that brings together programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business leaders, and journalists to foster community and showcase innovation. In addition to the various expos, lectures, and panels, the conference has its own set of awards (The Game Developers Choice Awards). GDC 2024 will take place in San Francisco from March 18th to March 24th. In a recent…

The Zelda series boasts a lot of cool merch, but the hottest of them all has got to be amiibo. These things fly off the shelves as soon as they hit them, making them some of the hardest to obtain collectibles for the franchise. For USA-based fans who still need to add to their collection, a select few amiibo will become available again very soon, while others are in stock today. Nintendo Wire has confirmed a reprint of Zelda amiibo…