During The Game Awards, Nintendo shared a new (and stunning) piece of artwork for its award-winning game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, featuring Link against the backdrop of the sky islands.
Many fans were quite taken with it at the time, and if you have been eager for a wallpaper version of this new artwork, you can now actually purchase it for just 50 Platinum Points in North America. And for anyone located in Europe, it's a completely free download.
"The Game Awards 2023 has honored Nintendo with the Best Action/Adventure award for the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom game. Thank you to fans everywhere for your continued support! To celebrate, a new digital reward with artwork featuring Link is now available."
As you can see, this wallpaper is available for both desktop and mobile, so you can display it on whatever device you choose.
Tears of the Kingdom took out "best action/adventure" game at this year's awards, and was also up against games like Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Spider-Man 2 for 'Game of the Year'. In the end, Baldur's Gate 3 won the big award of the night.
The creator and host of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley, has also revealed this year's show reached a new viewership milestone of 118 million global livestreams, making it "the most watched show" in TGA's 10 year history. You can catch up on The Game Awards in our previous coverage here on Nintendo Life:
Will you be setting this new artwork as your background? Tell us in the comments.
[source gonintendo.com]
Comments 34
Without the logo would've been nice
that should be a new box art. Make a limited edition only sold on Nintendo's shop
That should have been the box art. It’s nice artwork.
Hope this is the Switch 2 remastered box art
How do they not offer any landscape resolutions beyond 1080p? I would love to make this the background of my 4K monitor but most 1080p content on it just looks blurry.
@Altaria_97 They do though, there is a 3840x2160 version of the artwork available.
That makes it look like there are a lot more islands than there actually are 😂 but still very pretty
@Navi Well what's on the cover most of the time doesn't match the final product. A great man once said "I didn't get into marketing so I can lie to people" ~Ryan George
I'm in the USA, and when I tried to get this, I get a message that reads, "This reward is not available in your registered country/region." Anyone else have this problem?
Oh great I’m going to use it as a wallpaper on my Swi…
@JJtheTexan Oh you didn't know did ya? This wallpaper is exclusive to the Hyrule region.
@KoopaTheGamer Not in North America for some reason...
Remember when Club Nintendo let you redeem points for posters? I guess it's easier for people in the UK to remember that, but here in the US, it's like a distant memory...
@KayFiOS Those still do pop up. The Metroid Dread ones were super cool.
@KayFiOS The uk actually had some poster rewards not too long ago as platinun point rewards
My edited version without logo
https://mega.nz/file/jgBg2AbQ#dTD8i-JqIFwzzD6lFOoqcYHrxXSLUFSHcWslCNhqP2Y
This is one of the best pieces of artwork Nintendo has ever made.
Looks like it could be the boxart for the inevitable Switch 2 version of the game 😉
Very nice picture !!
I'll download it, but I won't be setting it as my wallpaper. The wallpaper of every single one of my devices is and will always be a fanmade render of Krystal from Star Fox, my favorite video game character of all time (narrowly beating out Samus Aran from Metroid).
The artist, a guy who goes by the name CakeInferno (formerly known as GreyFireFox) made an exceptionally high-quality model of her in Autodesk Maya. It's so well-detailed, it blows all other models of her out of the water, even those made by Nintendo and their associates (Rare for Star Fox Adventures, Namco for Star Fox: Assault and Super Smash Bros.) themselves.
Frankly, if Nintendo ever decides to make a 3D-animated Star Fox movie, they need to get him on board as an animator, even if Krystal isn't in the movie. He's that talented of an artist, in my opinion.
Not sure why it costs in North America while it's free in Europe but anyway, great artwork that as some mentioned could've easily been the box art or at least an alternative one!
Although I doubt they'll rerelease the game on Switch's successor as Nintendo doesn't usually do that with the jump from 3DS/Wii U to Switch being the obvious exception - especially if it will have backward compatibility which is quite likely for the same reason.
Wallpaper? Give us a poster at least, oh for the Club Nintendo days
Really, Nintendo? You give us oddball smart device resolutions, not standard 2k or 4k res (not 16:9, 9:16, 16:10, 10:16, but really weird ratios), then turn around and only give a full HD (1920x1080, 16:9) landscape image for desktop. Beggars can't be choosers, but this is baffling even for Nintendo, lol.
@SoapMonki If you have a modern Pixel or iPhone, you can use Magic Eraser in your Camera app to erase the logo. It does a good job at blending everything together to make it look like it was never there (on my Pixel 6 Pro at least).
If you don't have one of those phones, you might be able to find an app that can do it.
Awesome art. Made it my new smartphone lock screen.
I feel like they made this artwork under the assumption TotK would probably win game of the year and when it didn't they just slapped "best action/adventure" on it instead
@Tchunga I like this theory. Makes sense
@Vexx234 I blame King Daphnes! xD
@KoopaTheGamer Only thing showing up for me on the site for available resolutions in landscape is 1080p. All good though, I found a 4K variant on Reddit. Thanks tho.
Why does it remind me of Bastion?
@Altaria_97 Huh, weird. At least here in Europe there's both 1080p and 4K for landscape, and a bunch of different resolutions/aspect ratios for portrait.
Nice, but the original box art is way better.
Just share the link screw paying 50 coins for it
@nkarafo Nintendo cease and desist coming in 3, 2, 1… (jokes aside, thanks for sharing! The art is gorgeous)
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