The late Robin Williams was so smitten with The Legend of Zelda he famously named his daughter after the title character. Shades of World of Warcraft, fans have banded together via Change.org petition to ask Nintendo to honor the actor and comedian in the next game in the series, and Nintendo has responded.
It's no secret that the late comedian Robin Williams was a big gamer—he played everything from Portal to Call of Duty. So in an effort to memorialize Williams, gamers have banded together to make a petition to see if they can get Blizzard to add him to World of Warcraft in some way.
If 2012 was the year of Kickstarter, 2013 is the year of the fan petition. Following in the footsteps of the successful #PS4NoDRM campaign, a number of passionate Nintendo fans are setting out to get the Wii U and 3DS region-free.
NeoGAF frequenter and helpful Japanese translator Cheesemeister has started a petition to ask the White House to ban region-locking.
A petition calling on the United States to begin construction of a moon-sized superweapon has achieved 25,000 signatures, which according to the rules of the Obama administration's feel-good bullshit platform "We the People," requires a response from the White House. None has yet been made.
Dark Souls II! Announced at the Spike VGAs last week, the sequel to From Software's torturous role-playing game is coming to PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 next year. No Wii U.
Close to 19,000 people have signed an Internet petition demanding that publisher Namco-Bandai release the upcoming PC version of Dark Souls without Games for Windows Live.