{"id":415327,"date":"2026-05-06T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:56:09","slug":"nintendo-has-announced-a-star-fox-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415327\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo has announced a Star Fox Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has announced a Star Fox Direct, moments before its planned broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just a moment, at 11pm (UK time), we will livestream <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Star Fox (series) [139 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/star-fox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Fox<\/a> Direct \u2013 06\/05\/2026,\u201d it said on social media, in a post credited to chief designer <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"People &gt; Shigeru Miyamoto [237 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/people\/shigeru-miyamoto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presentation runs for approximately 15 minutes, and I would be delighted if you could take a look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Star Fox Direct can be viewed via the YouTube embed below:<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sources-nintendo-is-planning-a-new-star-fox-and-a-major-zelda-remake-this-year-but-no-3d-mario\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports last month that a new Star Fox was being planned for this year<\/a>, as claimed by prominent Nintendo insider \u2018Nate the Hate\u2019, matching what VGC had heard from our own sources.<\/p>\n<p>If Nintendo announces a new game, it will be the first time in ten years that Nintendo has released a new Star Fox game, the last being Star Fox Zero on <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Wii U [449 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/nintendo\/wiiu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U<\/a> (and tower defense spin-off Star Fox Guard, which was released alongside it).<\/p>\n<p>The series started in 1993 with the original Star Fox (known in Europe as Starwing), and was notable for being the first SNES game to use the Super FX chip, which allowed for basic polygonal graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has announced a Star Fox Direct, moments before its planned broadcast. \u201cIn just a moment, at 11pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-415327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}