The Legend of Zelda

You Can’t Play Zelda: Triforce Heroes With Only Two People

You can play the newest Zelda game alongside two other people. You can play it by yourself. But you can’t, according to director Hiromasa Shikata, play Zelda: Triforce Heroes with a party of two. Bad news for anyone who was hoping to plow through the co-op dungeon game—announced for 3DS during Nintendo’s conference on Tuesday—with…

Zelda Fan Film Is Three Minutes of Link Being A Hilarious Jerk

Link will do anything for some extra rupees—even if it means screwing everyone else over. You’ve gotta watch this short by Callegos-Y. It’s one of the best Source Film Maker fan films out there. In it, Link finds that he can’t quite afford purchasing a new shield, so he takes matters into his own hands.…

There are already a ton of fantastic Zelda manga adaptations out there (the Ocarina and Majora’s ones especially good), but reader King Zombie figures there’s also space to tell a more original story. So he’s started drawing his own. Looks cool!

Every Fairy From The Legend Of Zelda. Even The Hideous Ones.

Which is your favorite fairy from The Legend of Zelda franchise? Our old friend MasterOfHyrulehas compiled a video featuring each and every—what the hell is that thing? Someone kill it! Set it on fire! Glue an Xbox One game to it! Okay, we’re safe. My personal favorite fairies are the ones from Ocarina of Time…

If Every Game Was A Pokémon Clone

Pokémon’s turn-based battles and exploration have been delighting gamers for nearly two decades, but does the formula work when applied to Halo, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario and more? According to Hat-Loving Gamer’s excellent mash-up video, it certainly does. Sure Pong might be a little boring while taking turns (Paddle, Block attack!), but the likes of…

Graphic Novel Second Quest Is A Frightening, Zelda-Inspired Fable

The young girl in Second Quest will seem familiar to most video game lovers. Azalea explores ruins, collects artifacts and tries to uncover the mysterious hidden history of her floating fantasy homeland. But, halfway through the story, she throws away the ocarina, boomerang and slingshot she’s found. She needs to save her world but gets…

Watch A Super Mario Bros. Aquarium Get Built From Scratch

If I ever decide to buy fish, I’ll have to consider this incredible aquarium by Kelsey Kronmiller. “I started in about a year ago, after my good friend showed me a similar tank and challenged me to make one….so I did,” said Kronmiller to me over email. “I originally wanted to go with the underwater…

Zelda-Inspired Game Hopes To Be Different Every Time You Play

A Legend-of-Zelda-like game where you get to explore a different world each time you play? Sounds too good to be true. That, however, is exactly what Songbringer is trying to do (emphasis on trying). Songbringer‘s pitch sounds like something retrieved from the dusty libraries of my childhood dreams. I mean, listen to this: “What if…

The Making Of A Creepy Skullkid From Zelda

Li Kovacs’ Skullkid here is great. As great as this video featuring it, which towards the end also includes some footage showcasing how it was made.

Nine steps to creating awesome Zelda fanart. EternaLegend’s piece, titled “A Hero’s Hardship,” depicts the Hero of Time with “bad memories haunting [him] well after his adventures are over.” The finished, high-res painting can be found below—check out EternaLegend on Tumblr here and on DeviantArt here for more. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Hey Link. Listen. We Look Great.

That’s Jina D doing an excellent Navi, if not in scale then at least in spirit. Link is her fiancée Devon, who should really be cosplaying as Jaime Lannister. I had to crop the image to fit it on the front page of the site, so here’s the full shot: This pic was taken at…

Reminder: Nintendo Is Always Delaying Major Zelda Games

Today, Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma announced that the upcoming Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U is not going to be coming out this year. That’s a bummer, but not an unprecedented one: Lots of console Zelda games have been delayed. Ocarina of Time was eventually released in November of 1998. (Via IGN) Wind Waker…

The Legend of Zelda Wii U Delayed Out Of 2015

Bad news, Zelda fans. The next game won’t be out this year, Nintendo just announced—they’re “no longer making a 2015 release [their] number one priority” for the upcoming Zelda Wii U Series producer Eiji Aonuma announced the bad news in a video message on Facebook, where he talked about how the team has “discovered several…

Redditor jessmeixing was commissioned by the creators of Royal Guards, a Zelda web series that’s currently on IndieGoGo, to paint this piece of concept art of Hyrule Castle from Ocarina of Time. It’s pretty darn good, and my crappy GIF really doesn’t do it justice, so make sure to check out the original pic below.…

Building Link’s Hylian Shield, In Real Life

Look, nobody said Man At Arms had to make weaponsall the time. If a shield can be as iconic as the sword swinging next to it, then it deserves its real-life dues too. I’m more impressed with this than I have been for most of their swords! The whole thing just looks so damn big,…

People Aren’t Waiting Around For Nintendo To Make A Female Link

Nintendo may or may not ever give us a woman version of Link from Legend of Zelda, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Or a game jam. In recent times, there’s been speculation that the next Legend of Zelda‘s Link will be a lady, not to mention an honest-to-goodness lady Link sighting in…

Nintendo Boss Says Zelda Netflix Rumors Weren’t True

Last month, the world freaked out over rumors that Nintendo was working with Netflix to create a live-action TV series based on The Legend of Zelda. Today, the guy who runs Nintendo says those rumors aren’t true. The buzz started back in February, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix was in the “early…

The First Five Zelda-Riffic Minutes Of Oceanhorn

The closest one can legitimately get to playing The Legend of Zelda on mobile is now the closest one can get to legitimately playing The Legend of Zelda on PC. Let’s see how much Link is packed into the first five minutes of Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas. It’s no secret Cornfox & Bros.’ epic…

Majora’s Mask Is A Game About Death

As someone who’s not-so-quietly championed The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for years, I’m happy the game’s been given new life on 3DS. Finally, everyone gets it! The last time I played Majora’s Mask, however, I was only 15. Today, I’m double that. While replaying Majora’s Mask, I’ve come to realize how much my favorite…

Zelda Stop-Motion Animation is All About The Clay Monsters

Here’s a really cool claymation short by animator Johnny McHone, featuring Link and angry plasticine monsters. It totally looks like a Robot Chicken sketch with a little bit of Neverhood and Skyward Sword added. Must have taken a while to film the whole thing, since it was made entirely using an iPhone and Vine To…