One of The Legend of Zelda's most enigmatic figures, the impish Midna has captured the imaginations of countless artists in the early eight years since its release. Watch as watercolor artist Adam Scythe gives us his interpretation.
Paul Kwon is a concept artist at Riot Games, and when he's not busy creating League of Legends champions and skins, he creates fan-art of other video game characters—like this superb piece, featuring Midna's both forms from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The finished pic, in its full glory, is below.
Surely commenter Daemon_Gildas isn't the only one that wasn't completely in love with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It's time to step forward and be heard in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. We promise Nintendo isn't looking, much.
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Nintendo will drop the price of the Wii to $149 in North America this month, according to details forwarded to Kotaku by retail sources. That price drop, first reported in April, will also coincide with a new budget friendly line of Wii software dubbed "Nintendo Selects."
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In today's exciting episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Cupids_Hitman waits and waits for prices on first-party Nintendo games to drop, but they never do.
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You could have played GameCube (and Wii) game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess with a very rare video game controller feature: a belt buckle. This is the never-produced Legend of Zelda controller from Nubytech.
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True form Link and Midna team up in this rad Twilight Princess illustration by GENZOMAN. This is a reverse look at his "Midna and Wolf Link" piece.
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For $330 next year, you could show your love for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and buy a Midna and Wolf Link statue from First 4 Figures. But why? For $350, you could get the better version.
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The upcoming Legend of Zelda game on the Wii will make use of a fair bit of motion control. Which should be fun, but there are perils in that amount of waggle, as seen in this cautionary tale.
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People always ask why there hasn't been a Zelda movie. I always wonder why there hasn't been a Zelda cartoon. That looks like this. By Genzoman, via Rampaged Reality.
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Nintendo boasts today that the company has sold 30 million Wiis in the U.S., making it, they say, the fastest-selling home console in gaming history. This proud news was bundled with a curiosity. Hint: Name the best-selling Wii Zelda game.
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Edge magazine has an interview with Legend of Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma in their 211th issue feature, Links To The Past. His feelings on Twilight Princess? Regret.
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First 4 Figures, always ready with a high quality Nintendo character in statue form, will be releasing a center piece modeled after Zant from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess early next year.
