The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN) News Articles
Wednesday20th Aug 2025
Random Zelda Fan Builds A Ridiculously Cool, Fully Functional Wind Waker Sailboat
"Did I startle you..?"
Although many deemed it somewhat tedious, sailing across The Great Sea is what made Zelda: The Wind Waker, well... The Wind Waker. It was a really cool mechanic in hindsight, and we don't know about you, but we often fantasised about having our own 'King of the Red Lions' sailboat in real life. Now, thanks to YouTuber and...
Tuesday17th Jun 2025
PSA Select GameCube Games Can Be Played In Widescreen Mode On Switch 2
Here's how to activate it
Rejoice, GameCube fans - Nintendo has finally made the dinky little console part of its Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription tier, meaning you can now enjoy select titles on the Switch 2 with bonus quality-of-life features. Some of these features, including the ability to create restore points and apply a...
Tuesday10th Jun 2025
PSA Remember, You Can 'Fix' The Camera In Zelda: The Wind Waker On Switch 2
Just watch how it affects other gameplay mechanics
After years of begging from passionate fans, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has made it to the Switch 2. Okay, it's not the HD version we were perhaps hoping for, but if you're particularly fond of the GameCube original, you can now play it via Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. It's...
Sunday1st Jun 2025
Gallery Here's Another Look At GameCube Games On Switch 2
Joining the Expansion Pack next week
GameCube returns next week as a Switch 2 'Nintendo Classics' exclusive and it will start life with The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX and SoulCalibur II. These versions will include screen options – such as the ability to activate a retro CRT mode and you'll also be able to take advantage of...
Tuesday27th May 2025
News Nintendo Shares Video Detailing New N64 Features For Switch Online
Be kind, rewind
Nintendo has released a new video detailing some of the planned features for the N64 app on Nintendo Switch Online. As shared by TodayNews, the video showcases three core features for N64 games on Switch Online, including the ability to rewind (exclusive to Switch 2), a new CRT filter (also exclusive to Switch 2), and viewing /...
Thursday8th May 2025
News Nintendo Shares More Footage Of Zelda: Wind Waker On Switch 2
Available via Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo has shared another compilation of footage from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for the Switch 2. Available via Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, The Wind Waker brings back the original 2002 GameCube classic exclusively on Switch 2 on 5th June 2025. The latest video focuses on the game's...
Wednesday30th Apr 2025
Video Nintendo Shares More Footage Of F-Zero GX For Switch Online
Check out the Story Mode
After years of being stranded on the GameCube, F-Zero GX is finally seeing the light of day via a new batch of GameCube games for Nintendo Switch Online on the Switch 2. Now, Nintendo has shared some additional footage of the upcoming release via the Nintendo Today! app, which has been kindly shared online by TodayNews. In...
Sunday27th Apr 2025
Video Nintendo Shares More Footage Of Zelda: Wind Waker For Switch Online
Arriving June 5th
The GameCube library will be joining the Switch 2's online 'Expansion Pack' tier this June and one of three launch titles for this particular collection is Link's cel-shaded adventure The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Nintendo's new app 'Nintendo Today!' has been sharing some additional footage of this title in action on the...
Tuesday22nd Apr 2025
Random If We Could Get A Zelda: Wind Waker Sequel Like This, We'd Be Ecstatic
Fan-made trailer took over a year to create
It's funny to think back on those days prior to the launch of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on GameCube. The now-infamous Space World 2000 footage gave us a glimpse of a Zelda experience that was, by and large, a natural graphical evolution of what came before in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask...
News Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Now Boasts 300 Playable Titles
Yeah, that's a lot
With the recent addition of the GBA title Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion, the paid service now boasts a total of 300 playable titles in the West. So to be clear, this count excludes SP titles, Japanese exclusives, and the upcoming line-up of GameCube titles for the Switch 2. And yes, just to...
Saturday12th Apr 2025
Video Nintendo Today Gives Us Another Look At Zelda: Wind Waker For Switch Online
The GameCube library is exclusive to Switch 2
Last week, Nintendo announced GameCube games would be added exclusively to Switch 2's online expansion pack at launch. If you haven't already somehow seen it, one of the three games joining the service at launch is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Nintendo Treehouse showcased gameplay footage of...
Thursday10th Apr 2025
News Zelda Wind Waker Switch 2 GameCube Release Doesn't Rule Out HD Port
Nintendo: "All options are on the table"
Last week, Nintendo confirmed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker would be sailing onto the Switch 2 as part of the GameCube library at launch. If you're worried this might rule out the Wii U HD version of the game making a return one day, it seems there's still hope. Tim Gettys of Kinda Funny Games spoke to...
Wednesday9th Apr 2025
Video Digital Foundry Dives Into GameCube Emulation For The Switch 2
With a bunch of Nvidia Shield TV talk, too
For many of us, GameCube games on Nintendo Switch Online kind of felt like the holy grail. Granted, it very much depends on your age and which systems you happened to grow up with, but with the GameCube playing host to some of Nintendo's finest games of all time, its inclusion on the Switch 2 is a pretty...
Thursday3rd Apr 2025
News GameCube Games On Switch 2 Will Support An Optional CRT Filter
Back in my day...
One of the best surprises from the recent Switch 2 Direct is that the upcoming console will include GameCube titles for those on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion pack subscription tier. These include The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SoulCalibur II, and F-Zero GX at launch with more confirmed in the coming months. What's...
Tuesday14th Jan 2025
News 'Nintendo Music' Adds Another Legendary Zelda Soundtrack, Here's Every Song Included
Wind Waker sails onto the NSO music app
It's a new week and that means a brand new update for the Nintendo Music app on mobile devices. Today Nintendo has added the GameCube soundtrack for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. This includes 133 tracks with a total runtime of 3 hours and 40 minutes - you've got songs like the title theme, Outset...
Friday27th Dec 2024
Random Sonic 3's Movie Writers Would Love To Adapt Zelda: Wind Waker To The Big Screen
"We're putting it out there in the world"
There's already a live-action Zelda movie in the works, but beyond this, it's not clear how else this legendary Nintendo series could be adapted to the big screen going forward. Enter Sonic 3 movie writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller - who revealed to IGN in the same interview recently the video games they...
Monday11th Nov 2024
Random GameChops' New 'Zelda & Jazz II' Album Is More Chilled Than The Hebra Mountains
Moblin Club, nice
Pour yourself a strong beverage, grab your swankiest hat and get your clicking fingers ready because game music cover label GameChops has teamed up with the chilled-out jazz group The Deku Trio for another relaxing rendition of some of our favourite Zelda tunes. Fittingly titled 'Zelda & Jazz II', the latest album is a...
Monday7th Oct 2024
Random Fans Discover A Hidden Credits Screen In Zelda: Majora's Mask
The GameCube version, that is
If you were lucky enough to own a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition promotional disc for GameCube and still happen to have it lying around, you might want to dig it out and try out this neat little easter egg hidden within The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. As highlighted by YANIS4224 over on Paste Bin...
Monday23rd Sep 2024
Random Zelda: Wind Waker Mod Replaces Link With A Honking Goose
And Ganondorf with a grumpy farmer
We've seen some pretty wild mods in our time, but this one has to take the biscuit. Courtesy of modder BigSharkZ (thanks, Gaming Reinvented), players can now experience the entirety of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker as an adorable, honking goose. Blending the classic GameCube entry with Untitl
Saturday12th Aug 2023
Random One Piece's Netflix Star Would "Love" To Play Zelda: Wind Waker
Luffy's actor says he's missed a lot of GameCube hits
Ahead of Netflix's One Piece premiere later this month, Mexican actor Iñaki Godoy - who plays Monkey D. Luffy in the live-action adaptation of the popular manga and anime series - has spoken about how Nintendo games have influenced his career. He "loves" series like Super Mario Bros. and The...
Tuesday16th May 2023
News Expect More Open-World Zelda Games Going Forwards, Suggests Eiji Aonuma
Count us in!
When The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launched back in 2017, it definitely seemed like a turning point for the franchise; we all felt it, right? 3D Zelda games have generally always felt quite similar to one another in terms of structure ever since Ocarina of Time. Titles like The Wind Waker and Skyward Sword bent and stretched...
Thursday23rd Mar 2023
News Latest 'Molly Medusa' Trailer Is Dripping With Zelda: Wind Waker Inspiration
Game launches next month
If the debut trailer for Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit didn't remind you of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, then the second trailer certainly will. From publisher Burning Planet, Molly Medusa will be launching on Switch on April 20th, 2023. The latest trailer showcases some of the characters you'l
Friday17th Mar 2023
News Legendary Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Has Turned 60 This Week
Many happy returns!
If you're a fan of The Legend of Zelda, you know who Eiji Aonuma is. While Shigeru Miyamoto is credited as the franchise creator and has played a prominent role in its growth, Aonuma has arguably had an even more significant impact on the franchise, serving as a director on classics like Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, The Wind...
Friday24th Feb 2023
News Action-Adventure Game 'Molly Medusa' Pays Homage To Zelda: The Wind Waker
Sailing and puzzles? Check!
Publisher Burning Planet has revealed Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit, a 3D action-adventure game that appears to pay homage to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker's classic puzzle and sailing mechanics. Launching on the Switch on April 20th, 2023, the game stars the titular Molly Medusa whose friends have seemingly all...
Wednesday7th Dec 2022
Poll Is Zelda: Wind Waker's Hero Called 'Cat-Eye Link'?
Hyrule Historia reckons so!
The Zelda franchise has seen its central hero take on many different forms. There's the sideburns and long-johns of The Adventure of Link, the long body and pointed features of Ocarina of Time, the eyeliner and fringe of Twilight Princess ('it's not just a phase Muuuum') and then shaggy wild explorer of Breath of the...
Thursday20th Oct 2022
Random Former Luigi's Mansion Dev Is Now Heading Up The Silent Hill Franchise
From one horror to the next
Last night, Konami finally lifted the lid on its plans for the Silent Hill franchise and, as expected, there's nothing of any real note for Switch owners; we're really quite sad. However, one interesting and fun little discovery made the rounds on Twitter shortly after the presentation. It turns out that the producer for...
Monday12th Sep 2022
News Nintendo Direct Showcase Confirmed For Today (September 13th)
It's happening!
After a whole bunch of rumours, Nintendo has officially announced a new Direct Showcase, scheduled to air on September 13th at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST / 10pm AWST / 2am NZST. Nintendo UK has also announced that it will not stream the Direct as a mark of respect for the country's current period of national mourning; as such, it...
Friday9th Sep 2022
News Nintendo Direct Zelda Announcement Rumours Intensify
Update: Direct officially announced
Update #3 [Mon 12th Sep, 2022 15:22 BST]: The latest Nintendo Direct has now been announced. It will air on September 13th, but will not be live streamed on Nintendo's UK YouTube channel. You can read more in our latest story: Nintendo Direct Showcase Confirmed For Tomorrow Update #2 [10th Sep, 2022]: Jeff...
Wednesday31st Aug 2022
Rumour It's Not Even September And Nintendo Direct Rumours Have Already Started
A Nintendo Direct? In September? Whodathunkit?
If you have been following all things Nintendo throughout 2022 then the concept of 'a Nintendo Direct will definitely be happening next month' won't be new to you. However, the latest rumour drop from Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb might be the most likely prediction we've had in a while. Speaking on...
Sunday14th Aug 2022
Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel - The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker
There's something in the wind...
Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! In last week's edition, we took a look at The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for the GBA; perhaps one of the most underrated entries to Nintendo's enduring franchise. Japan once again took the lion's share of votes with a whopping 76%. Europe came in...
