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Zelda’s Travel Bureau Makes Beautiful Posters

Artist Dean Walton has put together these wonderful mock vintage travel posters, advertising the land of Hyrule (specifically, its Ocarina of Time incarnation) as a travel destination. Available for purchase either individually or as prints, you can order them from the link below. Hyrulean Travel – Full Series [GamerPrint]

By Luke Plunkett Published January 24, 2012

The Bests

The 12 Best Games on the Wii

The Wii’s in a weird spot in its life cycle. Nintendo’s announced a successor and fans of the new eagerly await more details of the inbound system. But someone gave you the current system. Maybe that someone was you. What do you do once the parties are all over and Wii Sports has worn out…

By Evan Narcisse Published January 24, 2012

The Legend of…Old Honda Cars

Before we posted too many pictures of cakes, we used to post too many pictures of stupid license plates. For one day only, I’m bringing that back, because, yeah. This is too good. [via Super Punch 2]

By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012

This Zelda NES Mod Is Magical

Platinumfungi grew up playing The Legend of Zelda and decided the best way to say thanks was with a NES case mod and this lovely video. Platinumfungi did the casemod, custom NES guy Jayrod2 did the paint job, Will Chiles did the music, and Avid Productions 479 did the video. And I did this post.

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 17, 2012

Mapstalgia Explores the Strange and Wonderful Ways Memory Changes Video Game Maps

What you’re looking at is obviously not the official map of The Legend of Zelda; it’s what The Legend of Zelda’s map looks like to themadjuggler, one of the many contributors to Mapstalgia, a website dedicated to reproducing video game maps from memory. Mapstalgia‘s Josh Millard is quickly assembling an impressive archive of video game…

By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

The Legend of the Legend of Zelda Board Games

In 1988, Milton Bradley released a Legend of Zelda board game. Awesomely, it wasn’t a lazy conversion of an existing game like we see now, with Nintendo Monopoly or Metal Gear Risk. It was a game specifically tailored for Zelda And take a look at that box art! Amazing stuff. The game was based on…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 9, 2012

Zelda’s Boss Offers a Giant Disclaimer over “Official” Series Timeline

When the “official” timeline for The Legend of Zelda series was first published in a Japanese book, I warned you. “Be warned…Nintendo may later own up and say this isn’t the super-secret official timeline they’ve been guarding with their lives for decades”, I said. “This may be just an ‘interpretation’. Or something”. Turns out that…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 6, 2012

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