Legend of zelda News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

It’s that time of year again! With January winding down, Nintendo fans await confirmation that The Big N is getting ready to present its first Nintendo Direct of the year! Ever since these started several years back, fans have been pumped for when the next one will arrive and what will be shown. This particular Direct will be important because it’s not just the first event of the year for Nintendo but because it’s presumably the last “full year” of Switch content. We only have one “original title” coming out via the Princess Peach game, and that seems pretty “light.”

As Nintendo has proven over the last several years, they’re dedicated to not just making the best video games possible featuring their IPs but trying to take those IPs and bring them to new places so that they can “lure in” new people to check them out. Last year, they released the first of what might be a grand movie slate, with Mario’s first animated feature not only getting nominated for awards but also bringing in over 1.3 billion dollars! Then, there’s Super Nintendo World, the amusement that Nintendo has built with Universal Studios. The park already has locations in Japan and California, and Orlando is set to drop soon.

There are quite a few gaming award ceremonies to keep track of, and The Golden Joystick Awards is one of the most prestigious. It’s also one of the few events where winners are determined by the votes of gamers around the world.

Not all fans of The Legend of Zelda know that there’s a long-running (and very good) manga based on some of the series’ titles. Authored and illustrated by the duo A. Honda and S. Nagana under the pen name Akira Himekawa, many of the volumes are available in a collectible treasure chest, which is a gift that should please fans of the franchise.

Several premium models from First 4 Figures are on sale right now, including a Hylian Shield replica that's nearly a foot tall.

Nintendo is easily the most legendary video game developer and publisher in gaming history because of how long it has lasted and the quality of titles it produces. However, when it comes to adaptations outside of video games, that’s when the company hits speedbumps. But with a certain animated film starring Mario hitting a billion dollars at the box office this year, many wonder if the company has hit upon something that works. We know they’re working with Illumination to make another animated film. We just don’t know what. But now, a new rumor says they’re also working on a live-action Legend Of Zelda film.

2023 has been a great year for gamers so far, and it will surely get exciting with games such as The Crew Motorfest, EA Sports FC 24, Assassin's Creed Mirage, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 launching in the next few months. While Assassin's Creed Mirage and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 could be strong contenders for the Game of the Year title, they face stiff competition from not just this year's, but one of the best games launched in recent years - Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom.

A wireless Link to the past.

Eiji Aonuma revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom is likely not to ever have any DLC, and this is for good reason.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom offers a sprawling adventure that you can easily pour well over a hundred hours into, but if you’re still hungry for more new content in the game, there’s a little bit of bad news for you.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom managed to take home four awards from Gamescom 2023, making it this year’s most successful award winner at the event. 

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Zelda and Link are heroes and household names at the top of everyone’s minds, given the success of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomand its predecessor Breath of the Wild. But the franchise has never gotten a live-action film release — though a silly animated series was made in 1989 — even as juggernauts like Pokémon adaptation Detective Pikachu have graced theater screens. A fan is rectifying this grave injustice in the form of a trailer, that imagines The Legend of Zelda as a 1980s dark fantasy film.

It looks like Ubisoft’s cancelled sequel for Immortals Fenyx Rising would have been quite different from the type of games that the company has become known for. According to Axios, sources have indicated that Immortals 2 would have blended quite a few games together, including Elden Ring and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launched to widespread critical acclaim, and it currently sits as one of the highest-rated games on Metacritic. It was predictable that this would be accompanied by strong commercial success, but we are now getting an even clearer picture of just how impactful Breath of the Wild’s sequel has been.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom topped 18.5 million sales in under two months.

Nintendo's financial results for Q1 2023 (April-June) are out, confirming the incredible success of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The sequel to Breath of the Wild sold 18.5 million units in roughly a month and a half, considering that the quarter ended on June 30th and the game was released on the Nintendo Switch console on May 12th.

Nintendo has updated its list of the ten highest-selling first party games on the Switch, providing updated sales figures for all titles included in it as of June 30, 2023, and there are plenty of interesting developments to take note of. 

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has sold over 18.51 million units worldwide as of June 30, 2023. The updated sales figures for the open world title were announced by Nintendo during its recent quarterly earnings briefing. Tears of the Kingdom sold over 10 million units within three days of release, and clearly, has continued to sell at an impressive rate in the weeks since then.

Nintendo Switch has sold 129.53 million units worldwide as of June 30, 2023, Nintendo announced in its latest earnings release.

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If Nintendo was to rank the franchises that it “cares the most about” for one reason or another, you can very easily bet that The Legend of Zelda would be on that list. It was one of their first franchises and thus is one of their longest-lasting franchises. Even when it wasn’t selling multi-millions, its reputation for quality and diverse gameplay elements helped make it stand out both on consoles and on handhelds. Then, when you get to the Nintendo Switch era, games like Breath of the Wild and the recent Tears of the Kingdom helped prove the franchise still has room to grow and boom in sales.

The two classic Game Boy Color games are now available on the Switch.

Nintendo has added two more classic Zelda games to the Switch.

When Nintendo announced earlier in the year that it was adding Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance libraries to the Nintendo Switch Online catalog, it confirmed that the beloved GBC duo of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons would also be added to the service down the line. The wait for that is now over.

Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online has added The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Nintendo announced.

You can begin “A Wife Wafted Away” in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom any time after you’ve completed the main questline of the Zora’s Domain regional phenomena and helped Sidon to clear the sludge from Zora’s Domain. We’ll lay out exactly what you need to do to complete the quest below.

A few days ago, a new video showcasing the latest build of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Unreal Engine 5.2 fan remake was shared online, showcasing an amazing recreation of the Inside of the Deku Tree dungeon. And from today, everyone can experience this recreation for free.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has quickly shown itself to be one of the biggest games of the year, both in terms of its success and its actual size. With three tiers of Hyrule to explore, the latest The Legend of Zelda game is a truly massive undertaking, especially for completionists. Furthermore, players will want to be well and truly prepared for the final battle with Ganondorf, who is easily one of the toughest bosses in the history of the franchise.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold over 10 million units worldwide within 3 days of release and currently stands as the year’s highest rated game, so to say that it’s been a runaway success for Nintendo would be an understatement. In fact, more sales data has now emerged to further illustrate that point.