The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom just leaked online ten days before release day

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The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom screenshot
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Anyone that’s excited for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is going to have to be careful in the ten days running up to the May 12 release date. Unfortunately the game has leaked online in its entirety, which means spoilers are already starting to spread over the internet.

Apparently some physical copies of the game were accidentally sold ahead of the release. So it didn’t take long for all the games files to appear online, allowing people to pirate the long-anticipated game and attempt to play it early.

Nintendo has always been incredibly vigilant with protecting its IP, and having one of the year’s biggest Switch releases leak in this manner will no doubt have sent the relevant teams into overdrive for the next two weeks.

No doubt the company will crack open the champagne if it discovers the person or people responsible for leaking Tears of the Kingdom online. In the meantime, if you have any information about the game that isn’t from the official marketing, you better keep it to yourself — lest you incur the wrath of Nintendo’s legal team.

If you want to avoid Tears of the Kingdom spoilers, you’re going to want to stay off social media for the next couple of weeks. Or, at the very least, learn how to avoid spoilers on social media. Maybe you can replay Breath of the Wild to help pass the time?

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Tom Pritchard
Tom Pritchard
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Tom is the Tom's Guide's UK Phones Editor, tackling the latest smartphone news and vocally expressing his opinions about upcoming features or changes. It's long way from his days as editor of Gizmodo UK, when pretty much everything was on the table. He’s usually found trying to squeeze another giant Lego set onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining about how terrible his Smart TV is.