Nintendo has announced a Star Fox Direct

Nintendo has announced a Star Fox Direct, just over an hour before its planned broadcast.

“In just a moment, at 11pm (UK time), we will livestream Star Fox Direct – 06/05/2026,” it said. “The presentation runs for approximately 15 minutes, and I would be delighted if you could take a look.”

The announcement follows reports last month that a new Star Fox was being planned for this year, as claimed by prominent Nintendo insider ‘Nate the Hate’, matching what VGC had heard from our own sources.

If Nintendo announces a new game, it  will be the first time in 10 years that Nintendo has released a new Star Fox game, the last being Star Fox Zero on Wii U (and tower defence spin-off Star Fox Guard, which was released alongside it).

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.

It was followed by Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars in the Europe) in 1997, Rare‘s Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube in 2002, Namco’s Star Fox: Assault on the GameCube in 2005 and Q-Games‘ Star Fox Command on the DS in 2006. Star Fox 64 also received a 3DS remake in 2011.

The return of Star Fox would go some way to explaining the introduction of Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which was released last month.

Rather than playing a cameo role, Fox – voiced by Top Gun Maverick star Glen Powell – is a major character in the film’s second half, joining Mario and his friends on their mission.

Takaya Imamura, the original artist behind Star Fox who left Nintendo in 2021, has stated publicly numerous times that he’d like to see the return of the series.

In 2022, on the sixth anniversary of Star Fox Zero, Imamura posted a tweet saying he hoped the Wii U exclusive would get a Switch port one day. Then, last year, he posted that he would love to see Star Fox Assault coming to Switch 2.