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Feature Zelda's Forgotten Steward - Who Is Hidemaro Fujibayashi?

The man, the myth, the legend

Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring, and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds just about as much prestige in the ranks of Nintendo as Shigeru...

• Sat 6th Jan 2024
• Features
• Nintendo
• Nintendo Switch
• Zelda

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 19th)

Just one more run...

It's Saturday and you know what that means. That's right, it's time for a spot of the ol' gaming. There have been a good number of highlights at Nintendo Life this week. We got a large helping of Splatoon 3 news as we received a first look at the upcoming Drizzle Season and new Deep Cut amiibo — we're still in love with Bi

• Sat 19th Aug 2023
• Features
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing

News Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color Library With Two Zelda Classics

Oracle of Ages & Seasons return

In a new Switch Online update today Nintendo has added the Game Boy Color classics The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. Both of these titles were originally released on the handheld system in 2001. These games can be played individually, in any order but you'll get even more...

• Thu 27th Jul 2023
• Zelda
• Nintendo Switch
• Switch Online
• Game Boy
• Game Boy Color

Random Animators Reimagine Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom As A Game Boy Color Title

Yes, we want this

Despite the significant strides the Legend of Zelda franchise has made over the years in terms of sheer graphical fidelity and scope, there's something infinitely charming about the earlier Game Boy titles. Whether it be Link's Awakening or Oracle of Seasons/Ages, the original portable entries to the series introduced unique...

• Thu 20th Apr 2023
• Random
• Game Boy Color
• Zelda
• Animation

Poll Box Art Brawl - The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Hats off to our competitors!

Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last week, we took a look at one of the Game Boy Advance's launch games: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. As expected, the Japanese cover art with its landscape orientation and additional characters like Dracula and Hugh Baldwin absolutely nailed the poll...

• Sun 7th Aug 2022
• Box Art Brawl
• Poll

Random Is This Cryptic Tweet A Hint At New Zelda Remakes?

Here we go again

Nintendo leaker markomaro is being cagey on Twitter, and with no Zelda news to keep us sane, his latest tweet has got people speculating. Let's take a look at the tweet in question: Right, well, that's not much to go on, is it? That's like us tweeting out a picture of Epona and saying "keep an eye out." If it turns out to be...

• Fri 27th May 2022
• Zelda
• Random

Feature The Brilliance Of Zelda: Oracle Of Ages & Seasons Forced Nintendo To Up Its Game

Flagship titles

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, we're running a series of features looking at a specific aspect — a theme, character, mechanic, location, memory or something else entirely — from each of the mainline Zelda games. Today, Gavin ponders how the Oracle games demonstrated just how well outside developers had...

• Mon 15th Mar 2021
• Features
• Zelda
• Zelda 35th Anniversary

Video How Nintendo Influenced My Grade School Years

We all live in a Pokémon world

Now I always remembered being absolutely obsessed with Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda growing up in the 90's, but after recently uncovering a few boxes of my childhood school papers at my family's place, the word "obsessed" took on an entirely different meaning. These boxes contained plenty of random essays, math...

• Sat 16th May 2020
• Videos
• Random

News Get Zelda: Oracle Of Seasons And Oracle Of Ages For Just Over £5 With My Nintendo (Europe)

Two Zeldas for about £5? Yes please

If you're looking for your next Legend of Zelda fix, the European My Nintendo rewards scheme may just have the perfect deal for you. Right now, you can go ahead and download Game Boy Color games The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages on your 3DS for just £2.69 / 2.99€...

• Mon 6th Apr 2020
• Legend of Zelda
• Game Boy Color
• 3DS

News Japanese Developer Grezzo Handling The Switch Version Of Link's Awakening

And there are "no plans" for Oracle remakes

Japanese video game developer Grezzo has made a name for itself over the years re-releasing older Zelda games on newer Nintendo systems. It started out with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D in 2011 and followed this up with The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D in 2015. In between, it has worked on...

• Wed 19th Jun 2019
• Zelda
• Nintendo Switch
• Upcoming Releases
• Grezzo
• Eiji Aonuma