The Legend of Zelda

Award-winning composer and arranger Rozen’s latest exploration of The Legend of Zelda series is a musical journey through the darker corners of Majora’s Mask called Children of Termina. While the 17-track album drops digitally and on CD and vinyl November 30, you can listen to an exclusive preview track, “A Moment’s Peace,”right here.

What Makes Ocarina Of Time Great, 20 Years Later 

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time turned 20 years old today. Link’s first 3-D adventure, for the content-starved Nintendo 64, captivated a whole new generation of players, setting a standard for adventure games and laying a foundation for today’s massive open world journeys. In spite of this, Ocarina of Time remains a unique…

A Song Made Entirely Using Breath Of The Wild

Tom Jackson, aka Liltommyj, makes video game remix videos. This new one, for Breath of the Wild, uses nothing but the game’s own music and sound effects. You can see more of Tom’s work here

Now Bowsette Is In Breath Of The Wild

Having already been added to Mario 64 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it’s now time for Bowsette to venture off into the wilds of the latest Zelda This mod by Lynard Killer, which replaces Link with a fully playable Bowsette, is fantastic, even going so far as to add some basic dress physics. It’s…

Switch Online Now Lets You Cheat At The Legend Of Zelda

Today, Nintendo continued to build out the NES library in its Switch Online app with the previously-announced addition of NES Open Tournament Golf, Solomon’s Key, and Super Dodge Ball. But it also had a surprise: “Living the life of luxury!,” a hacked save file for The Legend of Zelda that starts players out with a…

That Time A Player Tricked Everyone Into Thinking You Could Get The Triforce In Ocarina of Time

On February 4th, 1999, one of the greatest hoaxes in video game history began. The Zelda fandom was shock by a player claiming to have found the Triforce in Ocarina of Time. Ariana Almandoz, a gamer from Colombia, had all the details, but she wasn’t quite ready to share them with the world. Through vague…

This Year’s Best Zelda Merchandise Is A Master Sword Shoehorn

When you think of the Master Sword, putting on your shoes probably doesn’t come to mind. But that’s what makes this officially licensed Master Sword shoehorn so brilliant. According to Inside, the 35-cm long will be released this October in Japan. No word on an international release.

Hit A Rock, Get To The Top Of Hyrule Castle, Easy

18 months on and people are still finding crazy stuff to do in Breath of the Wild: here’s Zantssmacking a rock a few times and ending up on top of Hyrule Castle To save you asking “how the hell did he do that”, here’s an explanation on how the hell he did that:

Breath Of The Wild Gets Official Placement On The Zelda Timeline, But There Are Shenanigans

Since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in March 2017, fans have been dying to know where it fits on the series’ official timeline. Now, Nintendo has provided an answer—sort of. Breath of the Wild is way at the end, but it’s not connected to the rest of the timeline. In…

YouTube Video Breaks Down Some Of Nintendo’s Best Gear

The YouTube channel Boundary Break usually checks out what goes on out of bounds in video games, but their latest video breaks down some of Nintendo’s most well-known hardware to show secret messages and exactly what made your Zapper sound so weird. I’m not much of a gearhead when it comes to consoles, although I’ve…

Gamers from the Class of 2018 Graduated in Style With These Graduation Caps

The practice of decorating graduation caps is often seen as a rite of passage for incoming graduates of colleges and (now, increasingly) high schools. Students often spend months contemplating what they will include on their graduation caps, which on graduation day. This year, many chose to adorn their caps with inspiring quotes, memes, and song…

Breath of the Wild’s Champions’ Ballad Expansion Is Better After A Long Zelda Break

Like most things with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game’s Champions’ Ballad expansion did not immediately thrill me. It took some time. It wasn’t what I wanted, but it’s now what I need. The Champions’ Ballad has been available for Breath of the Wild since December, nine months after the main…

It’s Mario And Bowser In Breath Of The Wild

This pair of mods, with Mario replacing Link and Bowser replacing a Hinox, brings one of Nintendo’s oldest battles to one of its newest classics. Bowser is by lynard killer, while Mario is by WilianZilv And for something similar, here’s a straight Fire Mario vs Bowser: Thanks Marc!

Breath Of The Wild Cookbook Looks Delicious 

HYRULE: Taste of the Wild is a fan zine that’s both a cookbook and an artbook. There are 12 recipes inside (by Bryan Connor and Diane Ault), covering many of the game’s more palatable dishes, along with huge illustrations by Shattered-Earth, Milkbun, Mayuiki, Finni Chang, Chiou! and Onemegawatt. You can preorder a copy (they’ll ship…

New Nintendo 2DS Is Very Legend Of Zelda

This is the Hylian Shield edition of the Nintendo 2DS XL. It’s out in July. I can see what they’re going for with the design, but…it kinda looks like a $5 cover you’d buy from a basket in GameStop. There’s a long history of very nice Zelda handhelds and consoles, from the golden GBA to…

Breath Of The Wild Looks Rad As A Game Boy Color Game

You can already play Breath of the Wild portably on your Nintendo Switch but what if there was another option? A fan-made videotransforms the game into a gorgeous Game Boy Color version that will make you eager for a full ROM hack. The video from Nintendo Wire imagines Breath of the Wild for the Game…

Ambitious Mod Reworks Breath of the Wild To Make Zelda The Hero

Princess Zelda spends most of Breath of the Wild sealed away in Hyrule Castle along with Calamity Ganon but an ongoing mod project is working hard to give her an adventure of her own. The Zelda Conversion project will let players explore the world as Zelda, adding new armor and story tweaks. The project started…

Want To Make Zelda? Nintendo Is Hiring!

Nintendo has a level designer job listing for working on The Legend of Zelda series. The gig is at the company’s Kyoto headquarters. The job entails working on dungeons, the field (or map), cutscenes as well as designing enemies. Nintendo is looking for those with experience as game planners. The listing is in Japanese and…

I Love Unfinished and Broken Games

I’ve been playing a lot of incomplete and glitchy games lately, from Radical Heights to Far Cry 2. Their messy imperfections often annoy players looking for sleek and polished experiences where everything runs smoothly but I find unfinished textures and falling out of bounds is strangely beautiful. When Final Fantasy XV’s demo Episode Duscae released…

The Western Version Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Has Less Body-Shaming

Clyde Mandelin is best known for his fan translation of Mother 3 and maintains the website Legends of Localization, where he looks at games’ original scripts and how they changed in the localization process. He applied his expertise to examine how localizers got rid of some body shaming in The Legend of Zelda: A Link…