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You Found New Music! Nintendo Add More Tunes and Tour Dates to Legend of Zelda Concert Series

It’s 2012, which means that it’s not even The Legend of Zelda‘s 25th Anniversary any more. But that’s not stopping Nintendo from extending the tour that celebrates the music of their long-lived adventure RPG franchise. Eleven more dates have been added in the U.S. and Canada for The Legend of Zelda concert series and audiences…

By Evan Narcisse Published January 5, 2012

The Zelda Timeline Has Now Been Fixed

Nintendo recently released an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda series, and despite providing closure for some, it provided problems for others. For the latter, here is a much more plausible fix. It may not carry the official, canonical seal Nintendo’s version does, but Zac Gorman’s interpretation will probably sound a lot more believable…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 3, 2012

Finish the Year Strong Talking About the Skyward Sword Finale with the Kotaku Game Club!

Welcome back to the Kotaku Game Club. Today we’re wrapping up our discussion series on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and 2011. Since we’ve all (hopefully) completed the game, let’s talk about the game’s final dungeons and the ending. Since we’ll be discussing the entire game today, including the ending. Players who haven’t finished…

By Mike Epstein Published December 29, 2011

New Zelda Toys Look Lovely

While we’re still waiting for proper, new Zelda action figures, Japan keeps getting Gashapon (capsule toy) pieces, continuing with this new line celebrating three very distinct eras of the franchise. There are six figures in all, with a Link and a Zelda from each.Ocarina of Time (the childhood characters), Phantom Hourglass (so, Wind Waker) and…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 29, 2011

Now That’s a Zelda Tattoo

Marian von Charlottenburg had this badass Zelda tattoo done in Hamburg, Germany. Nice to see someone take the normally-clean heraldic image and mess it up a bunch. My Triforce [Fuck Yeah, Tattoos!, via Gamefreaks]

By Luke Plunkett Published December 27, 2011

The Official Zelda Timeline, Now With Added Detail

While we were able last week to bring you the official Zelda timeline, courtesy of the series’ new art book, it was only the barest of structures, with just game names in chronological order. Now that the book has been out for a few days, more comprehensive translations are available. In addition to listing the…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 27, 2011

Downloadable Fix for Skyward Sword Bug Now Live in Japan, Coming Soon for U.S.

We’ve written before about the nasty bug that will break Nintendo’s latest Legend of Zelda game and Nintendo’s plans to address it. Gamasutra reported earlier today that Nintendo opened up a special “Legend of Zelda Data Restoration Channel” to deliver the patch that would fix the problem for Skyward Sword users. When Kotaku followed up…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 21, 2011

This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline

Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared – and that each game seems so wildly different from the rest – has long clouded the topic. Until…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011

How to Play as Link, In Skyrim

Let’s say you want to make your Skyrim character look really different, but don’t want to have he/she looking like Lightning out of Final Fantasy XIII. You could always make them look like Link instead! The “A Skyrim Link Armor” mod by Handski takes some existing pieces of clothing in the game world and modified…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011

See How Link and Zelda Have Changed In 25 Years

The upcoming Legend of Zelda art book, Hyrule Historia, has so far only been confirmed for a Japanese release. Since that means most of you won’t be looking at it at all, it won’t hurt to take a peek at a few more of its pages, especially ones that show the progression of Link and…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011

Help This Man Make LEGO Zelda a Reality

Back in the mists of time, before man walked the internet, I wrote a story about a LEGO Zelda movie a guy made. It was pretty great! So imagine my surprise when, over the weekend, the film’s creator Michael Inglis got in touch to let us know that he’s now taking the idea of LEGO…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 19, 2011

Zelda‘s Post-Apocalyptic Future Is Dangerous. Take This.

The Legend of Zelda is set in idyllic Hyrule. But what if things in Hyrule weren’t so pastoral? What if Zelda was set in the future and all of Hyrule had gone to shit? Then it might look something like this. Website Dogbomber is in the process of redesigning Zelda so that it looks closer…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 16, 2011

Have You Been Playing Your Skyward Sword This Week? Kotaku Game Club Wants to Know!

Welcome to the second week of the Kotaku Game Club‘s series on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. This week, we’re talking about the events from where we left off last week, the end of the Earth Shrine up through the Ancient Cistern dungeon. Hopefully the people who’ve been trying catch up because of our…

By Mike Epstein Published December 15, 2011

Nintendo Releasing a Lovely Zelda Art Book

As part of the franchise’s 25th birthday celebrations, Nintendo has decided to release a nice big art book for The Legend of Zelda fans. Called Hyrule Historia, it’s 274 pages of concept and promotional art from throughout the series, while also including historical info on the characters and the games they’ve starred in. So far…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2011

The Link Statue of One Man’s Dreams

In 2006, what were you doing? I was working at Kotaku. Derek was thinking about how he could get the greatest Link statue to ever grace this spinning blue ball we call Earth. If you ask me, he did just that. Derek commissioned artisan Emily Fiegenschuh to sculpt Link, a process that took from 2006…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011

Zelda Players Get Long Overdue Bling

Nintendo released a golden Wii Remote for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Yet, Skyward Sword isn’t only played with a Wii Remote. It’s played with a Nunchuk. And now, Japanese Club Nintendo members can finally own one to go with their matching Wii Remote and gold Wii classic controller Earlier this year, Nintendo nixed…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 14, 2011

Shigeru Miyamoto Knows Some Americans He’d Make a Zelda With

The Legend of Zelda is one the most successful video game franchises to ever come from Japan. It’s been mostly made by Nintendo studios in Kyoto, with some added efforts by Capcom, which is based in Osaka. Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s top game designer and lead creator of the 25-year-old Zelda series now sees a team…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 13, 2011

How To Talk to Your Children About Classic Video Games

It’s a delicate subject but one that will inevitably come up for any parent, and you’ve got to be prepared. In this age of bright and shiny high definition games, how can we force our children to play through the games we grew up on first? This is commenter Balmung‘s question in today’s Speak Up…

By Mike Fahey Published December 13, 2011

We’re Pretty Sure Deadmau5 Actually Got a Shigeru Miyamoto Tattoo

While it looks like Deadmau5 may have trolled everyone waiting for a PlayStation Vita with his whole lost-not-lost prank concerning Sony’s upcoming handheld, we think we can believe him that he’s gotten a hell of a new gaming tattoo. (There are videos.) Over the weekend, he appears to have cajoled newly-minted VGA hall-of-famer Shigeru Miyamoto…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 12, 2011

Nintendo is Ready to Re-Think Zelda

The man in charge of the Zelda series at Nintendo says he’s ready to make big changes in the series. He’s not guaranteeing them, but in an interview in the new issue of Game Informer magazine, Eiji Aonuma says the time for big changes may finally have come. “I started working on the series not…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 7, 2011