The Legend of Zelda

Sounds Like Zelda: Wind Waker HD Comes With A Lot Of Changes

The Wii U remake of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker has a bunch of new tweaks and features, if previews out of Germany are to believed. Reporters and attendees at GamesCom this week got to play the first-ever HD Zelda, which comes out for Wii U in October. They say it’s different. Much different.…

A Most Delightful Adventure Time x The Legend of Zelda Crossover

Bless fan fiction and fan art, both of which indulge us with all sorts of ridiculous, awesome crossovers. Like this Ocarina of Adventure Time collaboration by Joe Hogan and Mike Vasquez, for example. Take a look at the whole thing. Recognize everyone? It’s one of four different collaborations, actually—like this one of Adventure Time x…

Link Isn’t Smiling This Time

Reader Brady Goldsmith drew this rather grisly take on The Legend of Zelda. He writes: “This is my attempt at a realistic approach to Link—bloody, raw, gritty.” See more of his art at his Deviant Art page If you prefer a happier Link, there’s an upcoming Zelda game for you…

Zelda: Link to the Past vs. Zelda: Link Between Worlds

Via the folks at GameXplain, here’s a side-by-side look at the overworlds of the SNES game Zelda: A Link to the Past (right) and its upcoming 3DS successor, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (left). Spoilers: they are identical. It’s uncanny. (Thanks, Ian!)

Remembering The Victims Of Nintendo’s 1990 Fruit Snack Rap Attack

In 1990, children across the U.S. flocked to Nintendo Powerfest events to show their appreciation for the company and its products. Nintendo repaid them by making them dance to the Nintendo Fruit Snacks “rap.” Those with sensitive stomachs may want to look away. The video above features Kotaku reader Robert Leonard and his brother RickyLee.…

Zelda: A Link Between Worlds’ Art Has Gotten…Goofier

This morning, we got a closer look at the world in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. What most people didn’t notice, however, was that there was a significant change in Link’s character design, concept art wise—according to Tiny Cartridge, Link seems to have gotten goofier between now and the last time we…

A Darker Look At The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is set in the same world as its predecessor, A Link to the Past, but it’s way in the future, and the Link you’ll play on the 3DS this November is totally different than the Link you played on Super Nintendo two decades ago. Video footage above.

Stan Lee Needs To Be In Every Video Game Ever

Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee is the master of film cameos, and no stranger to video game appearances either, but it’s not enough. He needs to be in every video game, from Duck Hunt to The Legend of Zelda. I’m not sure how involved Stan Lee really is with the Stan Lee’s World of…

Aww, When Villains Are This Cute, They Don’t Even Seem Evil

All you need to do to make someone seem less fierce is to catch them prancing around without a care in the world, like in this art by Mr. Florey. Do you recognize everyone? We’ve got cheery Cobra Commander, Beetlejuice, joyful Jason, Magneto, adorb Pennywise, Alien, lil’ Ganondorf, Voldermort, and playful Phoenix. You can buy…

Don’t Ask Why Sonic Is In Ocarina of Time. Just Go With It.

Today’s glitched-out delight from Vinesauce isn’t a nightmare, like it tends to be.Having Sonic star in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time instead of Link—and making sure the character model goes fast—is more of an absurd hilarity. But that’s okay. We already got an unsettling corruption ofOcarina of Time. Besides, would nightmare glitches give…

If The Legend of Zelda’s Hero Appeared On More TV Shows…

Then he’d probably look a bit like these renditions by TanBurn. The two above are, of course, Link in the style of South Park and Link in the style of The Simpsons. To be fair, Link has appeared in a couple of the following TV shows—The Powerpuff Girls, for example. Still, it’s neat to see…

The Best Zelda Movie That Doesn’t Have A Cosplaying Link In It

See? What’s even funnier is that the guy’s actually in a pretty good doom band. Lost Woods on accordion…on a unicycle…in the woods [YouTube, via Geekologie]

Twilight Princess Looks Incredible Redone In Skyward Sword’s Style

Here’s a neat project by disbala, who is retexturing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess to look likeSkyward Sword—the newer Zelda game in the franchise, which features visuals which aren’t as realistic. The project has been going on for a couple of months now, with the video teaser appearing earlier this month. No word on…

It’s Never Dangerous To Go Alone When Zelda Stars Tony Stark

Snapped at PAX Australia last weekend. I wonder if it would be any less annoying if it was J.A.R.V.I.S. banging on at you to “please listen”. Best cosplay at PAX AUS. [Reddit, via Fashionably Geek]

This Amazing Art Is Made Almost Entirely Out Of Tea Stains

Did you know that you can make art by using tea? If you’re Dara Gold, artist and illustrator from Toronto, you can use tea stains to make pretty awesome art, too. Making art from tea doesn’t mean it all has to be brown, though. Tea comes in fruit flavors! That means there can be some…

The Frickin’ Greatest Legend Of Zelda Debate Ever.

“You can’t hate Legend of Zelda!” You make a compelling argument, SammyClassicSonicFan, but HaleyTheHedgehog isn’t buying it. Maybe it’s time to bust out the “pitch-perfect gameplay.” This delightful YouTube debate has me simultaneously excited for and dreading the point at which my own children will be cognizant and coherent enough to argue the finer points…

Zelda Fans, Drop What You’re Doing And Check Out This Art Collection

This. Is. Incredible Fan site History of Hyrule have done an amazing job tracking down all old art from The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past from all kinds of old magazines, manuals, products and publications, and have scanned and uploaded the images online. To say it’s a treasure trove of old Nintendo…

Even Bowser and Bullet Bill are peaceful in Pablo Pintachan‘s digital drawings of Mario, Link and Luigi. Well, Link looks a bit nutty and I’m not sure he’s up for to exploring Hyrule, but at least he’s calm. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Jeopardy Contestants Answer ‘Zelda,’ Get Robbed

Come on, Trebek. I mean, I know the specific technical details of Jeopardy answers are important and all, but really? REALLY? Zelda is perfectly fine. Nobody actually calls the game The Legend of Zelda. As Stephen Totilo just said out loud in the office, “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!” (Thanks, Alfred!)

Why Are You Here? Shigeru Miyamoto On The Ocarina Of Time

For many, Ocarina of Time is the greatest video game ever made or, at the very least, one of the most influential. In this Kotaku feature story we speak to its creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, about the making of the game we waited seven years for. “Mr Miyamoto, what are you doing? Why are you here?”…