{"id":492077,"date":"2026-06-10T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492077\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:57:12","slug":"nintendo-to-remake-classic-zelda-game-ocarina-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492077\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo to remake classic Zelda game Ocarina Of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">PARIS \u2013 Japanese games giant Nintendo on June 9 announced a new version of beloved 1998 action-adventure classic The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for its latest Switch 2 console.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The company provided few details about the Ocarina Of Time remake on a live stream presenting upcoming titles, saying only that the game will arrive in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Its original version on the Nintendo 64 console was a 1990s landmark, with an immersive, detailed 3D world and a combat system that allowed players to \u201clock on\u201d to individual enemies \u2013 today an industry standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Players controlled green-clad protagonist Link in a time-hopping adventure that straddled both his childhood and adulthood, as he confronted dark lord Ganondorf to save Princess Zelda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Ocarina Of Time is regularly celebrated as one of the best games of all time in the gaming press, and has a 99 per cent score on review aggregation site Metacritic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A previous 2011 remake for Nintendo\u2019s 3DS handheld updated the original\u2019s graphics to take advantage of the machine\u2019s 3D capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">More than 140 million Zelda games have been sold worldwide, with the last instalment, 2023\u2019s Tears Of The Kingdom, becoming the fastest-selling yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A live-action Zelda movie is planned for release in April 2027. AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2013 Japanese games giant Nintendo on June 9 announced a new version of beloved 1998 action-adventure classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-492077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}