The Legend of Zelda

The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild: The Champions’ Ballad: The Kotaku Review

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s second piece of downloadable content, The Champions’ Ballad, is a distillation of everything the game does well. Its collection of puzzle shrines holds some of the most inspired moments of the series, culminating in a wonderfully complex final dungeon. It is a strong end to the DLC…

Riding A Motorcycle In Breath of the Wild Is As Rad As It Sounds

Breath of the Wild’s Champions’ Ballad DLC has an amazing reward for anyone who bests its numerous trials. Prove yourself a champion and you’ll get to ride the Master Cycle Zero. Here’s how it looks in action. I’ve spent all day tackling The Champions’ Ballad and unlocking its secrets. After a ton of shrines and…

Zelda Wins Game Of The Year At The 2017 Game Awards

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild managed to snatch the 2017 Game Awards GOTY from a crowded field of contenders that included Mario Odyssey, Persona 5, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and somewhat controversially, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds “I want to take all of the joy and warmth I’m feeling right now receiving this award and put…

A Trippy Way To Tap Into Ocarina of Time Nostalgia 

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out in 1998. For a certain generation, it represents the peak of electronic entertainment. Link could climb, swim, and swing his sword like never before. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that decades later people are remixing and augmenting the game that defined their childhood in music. Zeldawave…

Nintendo is dressing up the plain old 2DS in The Legend of Zelda for Black Friday. The $70 green and yellow handheld comes pre-installed with Ocarina of Time 3D. There’s also a special “Explorer’s Edition” of Breath of the Wild for the Switch, bundled with a 100-page guide and a map for $60.

The Zelda Ghost Story That Helped Define Creepypasta

The back page of Alex Hall’s economics textbook was filled with scribbles. Diagrams, notes, story beats, a web that formed an outline for his next update. By day, Hall was a student at St. Louis University, but after class he was writing what would become one of the most infamous internet ghost stories: Ben Drowned,…

The Deluxe Edition Zelda Encyclopedia Looks Like An NES Cart

Due out in April from Dark Horse, The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia is a 320-page tome covering the characters, places and things from the first 30 years of Nintendo’s RPG series. The newly-revealed $80 deluxe edition looks very familiar. Covered in gold foil paper with embossed, debossed and textured features, the deluxe hardcover edition of…

Zelda Propaganda Posters Are Fighting The Good Fight

If cartoon art helped defeat the Nazis, then you’d think it should also help get the better of Ganon. These posters are the work of Fernando Reza, an artist from LA. I know “haha pop culture mashup” works can get a little tiring between all the t-shirts and targeted Facebook ads, but these are truly…

Breath Of The Wild Is Now Looking Even Better On PC

The PC “version” of Breath of the Wild already looked good with its increased resolution, but thanks to the release of the Clarity FX pack this week for the CEMU emulator, it’s looking out of this world. If you’re playing the game (the pack is only for BotW) on PC and want to try it…

Last year, curated art project Back to Bits made its 8-bit debut, capturing the games of the NES era in a series of 43 outstanding animated GIFs. Today the second wave of Back to Bits, Super 16, takes on the Super Nintendo era in 40 moving images. Check it out.

Here Are Some Isometric Ocarina Of Time Maps

I have a thing for isometric video games, so big thanks to Mark Mayers for linking this gallery of Ocarina of Time areas cut open and laid out. They’re from the site VGMaps, “the largest source of screenshot maps on the Internet”, which incidentally is now where I’ll be spending the rest of my week.

Link: Faces Of Evil: The Kotaku Review

When Nintendo foolishly licensed The Legend of Zelda to Phillips Media in the early 90s, the result was more than just Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon for the company’s CD-i console. Link: Faces of Evil is the action complement to Gamelon’s adventure game sensibilities. It eschews subtlety for a dungeon crawl-fest that is better left…

Now Waluigi Is In Breath Of The Wild

We’ve seen GTA, Mario and Minecraft modded into Breath of the Wild on Wii U and PC, but now we are getting into the good stuff This Waluigi skin is by Hefty and DonkXProXAli, and I think we’re about done here. I mean… Yeah we’re done here. Those new to this and wondering how it’s…

Zelda: The Wand Of Gamelon: The Kotaku Review

In 1993, Nintendo made the inexplicable decision to license The Legend of Zelda to Phillips Media, creators of the CD-i. Among the resulting games is Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. It’s known as one of the worst games ever made. Replaying it 24 years later reveals a game with interesting ideas marred by atrocious execution.…

Zelda’s Hyrule Historia Gets A Follow-Up Encyclopedia

Nintendo’s partnership with publisher Dark Horse has already brought us two outstanding volumes, Hyrule Historia and Art & Artifacts. Next April the “Goddess Collection” gets its third and final volume in The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia, a comprehensive guide to the series from the first game to Twilight Princess HD. Hyrule Historia and Art &…

New Ocarina Of Time Speedrun Beats All Dungeons Without Opening Any Doors

Ocarina of Time speedruns are already challenging, from Any% that use all sorts of glitches to speed through the game to 100% runs that collect everything. A new tool-assisted runtakes things a step further, completing all dungeons without opening a single door. A tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) uses emulation and special software to play a game…

Mods Add GTA, Minecraft & Mario To Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Now that Zelda: Breath of the Wild is running pretty well on the PC, it’s time for people to start messing it with. Like turning Link into Carl Johnson from GTA: San Andreas, or Steve from Minecraft These skins were made by WilianZilv, who has also whipped up a Mario Odyssey cap for Link to…

Zelda Speedrunner’s New ‘World Record’ Was Actually Done With Hacking Tools

Two days ago, dragonbane0 set a new speedrun world record for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. It was his first time running the game outside of practice. He’s now revealed that the speedrun was achieved using WiiU modding tools that he’s releasing to the wider community. Update—11:05 p.m.: We have changed this article’s…

We’re going live with a playthrough of Link: Faces Of Evil right now on our Twitch channel, Mah Boi!

Zelda vs Overwatch

You can’t get Overwatch on the Switch, but if you could, I bet it’d be full of cameos like this. This is by 3D artist Aaron Walker. If it looks familiar, that’s because it’s a big fancy render of some fan art that we posted last year by French artist Jeremy Vitry The rig and…