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Wednesday21st Apr 2021
News First 4 Figures Announces Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Champions Series
Update: Pre-orders for Revali are now live
Update [Wed 21st Apr, 2021 00:45 BST]: Pre-orders for the first champion, Revali, are now live on the First 4 Figures website. The exclusive edition is priced at $137.49 USD but if you purchase if early you can save $10. The highly detailed Revali PVC statue is inspired by his official artwork from The...
Sunday18th Apr 2021
Video Using a Mouse And Keyboard On Switch Isn't A Good Time
Prepare your choice of 'surprised' meme
There are a lot of different peripherals available for the Switch, some of which are absolutely cracking, and some of which aren't. We recently got our hands on Kaliber Gaming's catchily-named Keymander 2 3Play, an adapter that allows you to use a mouse and a keyboard for any game on your Switch, and blimey...
Thursday15th Apr 2021
Random Here's Zelda: Breath Of The Wild's Tarrey Town Completely Remade Inside Minecraft
Bolson would be proud
We're all probably pretty used to seeing just how creative Minecraft players can be at this point, but when a new build just so happens to feature a well-known Legend of Zelda location, it simply can't be ignored. The folks over at Gaming Reinvented have shared a video showing off their very own version of Tarrey Town, a...
Tuesday13th Apr 2021
Random The Lead Singer of The Mountain Goats Did An Improv Zelda: BOTW Soundtrack For His Kid
I am drowning, there is no sign of land
You may know American band The Mountain Goats from their upbeat, folksy songs about dysfunction and failure, growing up in the middle of Nowheresville, Texas, or that intoxicating feeling of teenage wanderlust and escape. Maybe you even know The Mountain Goats because they sang an alternate version of The Last...
Monday12th Apr 2021
Random These Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Fanmade Posters Turn The Game Into A Ghibli Movie
Zelda's Moving Castle
Here at Nintendo Life HQ, there's only one thing we love more than a cosy night in with one of Studio Ghibli's lovingly-crafted animations, and that's a fresh, hot pile of fish and chips The Legend of Zelda. We're also big fans of mashups, which is why we always have an MTV Mash-Ups playlist on in the background, but it's also...
Tuesday6th Apr 2021
Random There's A Korok Hidden In This Tiny Recreation Of Link's House From Zelda: BOTW
Tiny houses are so hot right now
There's only one thing we love more than Zelda, and that's tiny things. Actually, two things we love more than Zelda: tiny things, and really tiny things. Remember the Zelda Polly Pocket? And the Animal Crossing Polly Pocket? It's been a great year for fans of little things and video games. Luckily, today, we won't...
Wednesday31st Mar 2021
Random Take Yunobo Anywhere In Zelda: Breath Of The Wild With A Simple Exploit
Yu-no-it
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now four years old, and its impact helped the Nintendo Switch establish itself as a must-have system (and gave a fond farewell on Wii U, let's not forget). Yet despite all that time passing, and the millions of hours dedicated to it, there's still the occasional surprise to find. A fun...
Monday29th Mar 2021
Random This Zelda: Breath Of The Wild As A Polly Pocket Is All We've Ever Wanted
If you think about it, Minish Cap is just a Polly Pocket Zelda, too
It used to be that the only time our favourite games and our childhood toys met was in our dreams, where a horribly mutated My Little Pony would chase us through Resident Evil's halls while a Care Bear and a Cabbage Patch Kid chanted nursery rhymes menacingly in the background...
Tuesday23rd Mar 2021
News New Proof Of Concept Video Showcases Zelda: Breath Of The Wild In Virtual Reality
No Labo involved here
It feels like every other day we're hearing something new about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Between bread-based speedruns, Skyloft mods, and even
News Introducing Second Wind, A "Free Large-Scale DLC" Expansion Mod For Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
This fan-made creation adds new quests, weapons and more
There's so much potential when it comes to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in terms of DLC. While Nintendo has already released an expansion pass for the game, instead of adding even more content to it, series producer Eiji Aonuma and his team had so many ideas, they decided to save...
Wednesday17th Mar 2021
Video This Is What Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Looks Like Running At 8K With Ray Tracing Enabled
You've got to see this!
Ongoing rumours about Nintendo releasing a new Switch with 4K capabilities have got some people wondering what the company's current generation of games might look like on enhanced systems. While it seems unlikely that ray tracing will be showing up on Nintendo platforms any time soon, a YouTube channel known as Digital...
Saturday13th Mar 2021
Open your eyes, Link
Sure, we might be eagerly waiting for Nintendo to give us the next proper update about the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but there's still plenty to discover in the original 2017 Wii U and Switch release. Following on from a glitch that makes Link invincible and allows him to walk underwater, a "simple...
Friday12th Mar 2021
News New Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Glitch Makes You Invincible And Lets You Walk Underwater
Here we go again
Guardians won't be able to touch you if you perform this glitch... The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild turned four years old last week, but that doesn't mean fans of the game are anywhere near done with finding new secrets. A newly discovered glitch named 'Collision Overload' has been discovered, allowing players to walk...
Sunday7th Mar 2021
News Nintendo Plugs Skyward Sword HD With "Elements" Later Adopted In Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
"features like a stamina gauge"
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword might not necessarily be everyone's favourite entry in the Zelda series, but according to Nintendo, it put a lot of foundations in place for the Wii U swan song and Switch launch title, Breath of the Wild. Nintendo has used this as yet another opportunity on social media to promote...
Monday22nd Feb 2021
News Game Devs From Riot To Xbox Spoke About Their Love For Zelda, And How It Influenced Them
Huh, we didn't realise Zelda was so popular
In celebration of Zelda's 35th anniversary, journalist Imran Khan spoke to 18 different game developers across the industry for Inverse, including members of Riot Games, Capy, and Phil Spencer himself, the head of Microsoft's Gaming division and the face of Xbox. Although Spencer's quote was a little dry,...
Friday19th Feb 2021
Random Zelda: Breath of the Wild Player Beats Every Shrine With His Feet
An impressive feat
We're approaching four years since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launched, and fans continue finding news way to play it. As we await further news on its sequel, Breath of the Wild has maintained a vibrant community, between glitch exploits like
Friday12th Feb 2021
News New Nintendo Adverts Continue To Pretend That Their Own Voice Chat App Doesn't Exist
Honestly, we'd forgotten about it, too
The latest "Nintendo Switch My Way" adverts, which show off Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Party, and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, are part of an ongoing campaign to show a bunch of diverse people playing the Switch in different scenarios. Unlike the recent Super Bowl adver
Tuesday9th Feb 2021
Random Breath Of The Wild's Secret Debug Room Is Full Of Weapons, Frogs, And A Bull In A Box
The boss is a Very Large Bug
We've covered modder Waikuteru a fair... few... times... here on Nintendo Life, and that's largely because the mods they make and the secrets they discov
Thursday4th Feb 2021
Random Breath Of The Wild Speedrunner Completes 100% Run Without Taking Any Damage
"It's done"
We feel like we keep seeing more and more impressive feats achieved within The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild every week, but is this actually the most impressive one yet? Read on... Towards the end of last month, Breath of the Wild "expert" joedun became the first player to ever complete the game 100% without taking any damage...
Wednesday27th Jan 2021
News Modders Just Made It Possible To Play Skyward Sword Inside Breath Of The Wild
Forget Lynels, it's all about Groose now
We miss Skyloft. Out of all the towns Link's ever lived in, it sure was the floatiest. Breath of the Wild modder Waikuteru - who you may remember from the revamp of Link's House, turning it from "rubbish shack" into "actually functional domicile", or their
Tuesday26th Jan 2021
Video Seeing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Upscaled To 4K 60fps Makes Us Dream Of A Switch Pro
Deep learning super scrumptious
It's been suggested many times now that a future Nintendo Switch Pro console may take advantage of Nvidia's AI upscaling system called DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling to be precise. Our chums at Digital Foundry have explored the subject thoroughly if you're curious to learn more. To that end it's not entirely...
Friday22nd Jan 2021
Random Another Fake Nintendo Direct Leak Takes A Crack At Guessing BOTW 2's Title
Legend of Zelda: The Blurry Fake Screenshots
People have been having a field day when it comes to creating Breath of the Wild 2 leaks, with title guesses ranging from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Evil to The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of the Past. We've had rumoured release d
Thursday21st Jan 2021
News Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Mod Enhances Link's House To Make It "A Worthwhile Purchase"
Live a little
Zelda fan and modder Waikuteru is back at it with another mod for the insanely popular Switch title Breath of the Wild. Following on from the restoration of the unused Shrine 'Dungeon136', they've now decided to "re-imagine" what owning a house is like in the game. If you've played Breath of t
Wednesday20th Jan 2021
Video Ahead Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, We Discuss What Makes The Original So Special
Praising a true great
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's sequel may not have had any kind of update in around 18 months, and that fact has left us in a state of real hankering for some open-world Zelda deliciousness. With that thinking in mind, our video team – myself, Jon and Zion – went back and played the original and simply had to...
News Spirit Orb Hunters Rejoice, This Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Exploit Allows You To Duplicate Them
Also works on Korok Seeds and armour
Despite launching back in 2017, players continue to find news tricks, exploits and otherwise fun ways to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It's built up a major community and since the new year alone, we've seen one modder restore an unused shrine, as well as the truly fantastic
Monday18th Jan 2021
Random Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Fan Restores Unused Shrine Hidden In The Game's Files
'Dungeon136' revealed
We're used to seeing brand new tricks and secrets being discovered in Zelda: Breath of the Wild on a surprisingly regular basis, but here's something a little different. Zelda fan and modder Waikuteru has been digging around in the game's files, cooking up a visible, playable version of a Shrine that didn't make it into the...
Thursday14th Jan 2021
Random Breath Of The Wild Players Are Trying To Speedrun Bread
Ocarinaan of Time. Link to the Toast. Skyward Sourdough.
It's been almost three years since the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and we can't tell if people are bored with it or really into it, because now they're trying to speedrun the ability to make bread in the game, known as "Bread%". The bread recipe involves finding...
Tuesday12th Jan 2021
Video This Guardian Kill Takes Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Trick Shots To New Heights
Calculated
There's a whole community out there for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that has taken the game to new heights - with fancy in-game exploits and tricks. The latest clip doing the rounds on the internet is shared by the Japanese YouTube channel ゼルダねこ (as spotted by Twitter user GamesCage). It's yet another stunning...
Tuesday5th Jan 2021
Random A Real-Life Diamond Pickaxe Would Cost £5 Billion, Apparently
Damn! We JUST threw ours into lava
If you're looking for a bit of post-Christmas dosh, perhaps you need to look no further than the video games you've been playing the whole time. According to H&T Pawnbrokers, just one of Sonic the Hedgehog's golden rings would net you £5.8 billion ($7.7 billion) on the market, weighing approximately 256...
Monday28th Dec 2020
News Nintendo Collabs With Starlight To Roll Out Hospital-Safe Consoles Across America
Shut up, YOU'RE crying
You may have thought the Nintendo Switch was the ultimate portable console, but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Nintendo's Starlight Gaming Station - not a new console, per se, but a special version of the Switch designed for hospitals and healthcare centres - comes equipped with 25 games, and can be rolled around to different...
