Over the weekend, photographs from the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom artwork e-book leaked on-line revealing unannounced particulars about probably the most anticipated launch on this 12 months’s gaming calendar.
With the twelfth Could launch date nonetheless many weeks away, we thought it could be a good suggestion to make plain our strategy to Zelda spoilers right here at NL, as there is a good probability there will be extra leaks within the coming weeks. This is identical strategy we take with different titles — the Pokémon video games, as an illustration — however it’s price reiterating for readers involved about doubtlessly leaked info.
Merely put, you’ll be able to relaxation simple and protected within the information that Nintendo Life will stay a spoiler-free house for anybody trying to play Tears of the Kingdom recent on launch day. As online game followers at the beginning, we wish to play the sport unspoiled as a lot as anyone, and we’re eager to protect the supposed thriller for NL readers and everybody within the wider gaming neighborhood, too.
Simply as we do with Pokémon, we’ll report on any formally introduced points and particulars in regards to the recreation, however you needn’t fear about stumbling on end-game reveals or startling under-wraps revelations in our information articles.
In fact, gaming leaks are a matter after all nowadays, with particulars routinely discovering their means into the wild forward of any huge recreation’s launch. Typically code will get dumped on the net weeks upfront, however not all leaks are fairly so nefarious. It solely takes a retailer to interrupt avenue date or put up to reach unexpectedly early and earlier than it the complete recreation has been streamed and archived on-line earlier than most followers have had an opportunity as well up the factor!
For followers, this may be irritating at the perfect of instances, however much more so with sequence which solely launch as soon as a technology (or so). These video games do not come out fairly often, and the very last thing we wish to do is smash a pleasant shock or component of TOTK you’ve got been ready years to expertise.
Whereas our pre-launch protection of Tears of the Kingdom is not going to embody spoilers or particulars designed to be skilled for the primary time in-game, this doesn’t suggest we cannot cowl leaks in any respect. Nevertheless, our headline, lead picture, and the article itself will not comprise specifics. Our protection of the artwork e-book leak is an effective instance of the PSA-style article you may see ought to extra leaks happen sooner or later: