Thirty years ago today, Link embarked on one of his most beloved adventures yet – a quest that was made all the more remarkable for the fact that it took place on the monochrome-screened Game Boy. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening hit Japanese stores on June 6th, 1993 (North America and Europe had to wait until August and December, respectively), following in the footsteps of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES. The Game Boy title took many visual cues from its home console sibling, but was notable for some significant changes, too; it doesn't take place in Hyrule, for starters, and doesn't feature Zelda at all.

Eiji Aonuma designed marionettes before overseeing Zelda, the wildly popular video game series. Its latest title, “Tears of the Kingdom,” has sold 10 million copies.

Is it bad when a new game feels like a rehash of one of the best games of all time? Six years ago, Nintendo launched its new Switch console alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. That entry in the decades-old action-adventure series gave players a sublime sandbox of mystery, puzzles and combat that set a new standard of open-world games.

The setting sun dyes the sky a soft orange as Link glides through the air. Far beneath his dangling feet, Hyrule lies almost forgotten as my focus is fully set on the collection of islands scattered across the horizon. One in particular catches my eye - a small island adorned with a tower, which seems to hail from a lost civilization, and, lying at its feet, a pool of water. Carefully I manoeuvre Link above this pool and, when the time is right, send him diving down to the floating isle. Somehow, even high in the heavens, fish swim in the water.

Where does Tears of the Kingdom fit in the convoluted plot?

It took developer Tantalus Media a year and a half to turn The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's original Wii motion controls into regular button inputs for Nintendo Switch HD version. CEO Tom Crago shared the trials and tribulations of the game's development with the Fragments of Silicon podcast (as spotted by Nintendo Everything) and also dismissed rumours of a Zelda: Twilight Princess port for Switch.

Will The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 launch on an as-yet unrevealed Nintendo console? Some tech experts are theorizing that could be the case based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2's most recent round of footage.

Remember The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess manga that was localised by Viz Media? Akira Himekawa - the combined name for the two artists behind this series - recently announced the next chapter would be the last one.

Australian studio Tantalus is credited for creating the HD version of the Wii game, just as it did for the earlier Zelda re-release for Wii U.

Played at the very end of Nintendo’s E3 Direct showcase, the Breath of The Wild 2 trailer both shocked and delighted fans. The upcoming sequel will follow on from one of the most loved games on Switch, with the original BOTW selling over 13 million copies. This actually makes BOTW the bestselling Zelda game by a long way.