Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment gets November 2025 release date, so you'll soon get to experience its ridiculously cool split-screen co-op
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Nintendo revealed during its Nintendo Direct September 2025 today that Zelda spin-off Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment will launch on Switch 2 November 6, with pre-orders starting now.
The game is the latest in a splashy line of battle-afflicted Hyrule Warriors games – the first hack 'n' slash title came out in 2014, for Wii U. Age of Imprisonment seems to take after its predecessors in presenting theatrical combat situations much flashier and filled with flame than most mainline Zelda games, though Age of Imprisonment tracks the events of open-world Tears of the Kingdom and lets players discover Hyrule's violent past as Princess Zelda.
"Battle hordes of enemies alongside your allies and pair up with them to unleash mighty Sync Strikes," says a press release sent after Age of Imprisonment's latest trailer, which you can watch below. "Strategically deploy Zonai devices with water, wind or other effects to change the flow of combat."
Those who've already played Tears of the Kingdom will be familiar with these Zonai building blocks, though they appear more powerful than ever in Age of Imprisonment's new trailer – especially because you don't need to be alone while wrangling the wild energy they create.
"Fight alongside a friend in split-screen co-op," says the press release (though the trailer narrator explains this, too), "or use GameShare to play together on two separate systems if one player has the game. Uncover the canonical events only glimpsed in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom game when Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on Nov. 6."
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
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