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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition is Fun For One but Built For Four

At the end of my visit with Nintendo this week, we were given some DSiXLs and set loose on The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition. (Good god, that title is a mouthful.) For those who haven’t heard, it’s an upgraded take on the classic GBA game, which was itself a portable version of…

By Kirk Hamilton Published September 16, 2011

This Is How We Upgrade Equipment in Skyward Sword

Self-preservation isn’t the only reason for Link to slice-and-dice the creatures of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. He can also harvest their oddly-shaped innards to upgrade his gear. I’ve always wanted a sword with a spleen. I’m a complete sucker for game systems that allow you to take treasure from monsters and modify your…

By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2011

One Hundred is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword‘s Lucky Number

While the number three will always hold a special place in the Triforce-powered Legend of Zelda series, Link’s next adventure embraces a much larger lucky number to describe the sheer scope and size of the biggest Wii game yet. Nintendo’s own Shigeru Miyamoto unleashed the number 100 on the crowd during this morning’s press conference…

By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2011

This Zelda Figure Is the Hero of my Time

There aren’t any official Legend of Zelda action figures. Haven’t been for a very, very long time. Going by the quality of this custom piece, maybe it’s time for that to change. Toysmith BDCdiesel has built this Twilight Princess version of Link out of the remains of cannibalised figures like a Daredevil, Final Fantasy’s Cloud,…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 13, 2011

How Is Nintendo Celebrating Zelda‘s Birthday?

This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. To celebrate, Nintendo isn’t giving Zelda or Link presents. It’s giving you one. Between Sept. 28 and Feb. 20, 2012, players can download a DSiWare version of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition, free of charge. The game features wireless multiplayer and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 13, 2011

Link, Samus and Mario are Model Nintendo Characters

Artist Ty Lettau combines two (well, four) of my favourite things in these pieces: classic Nintendo characters and plastic model kits. They’re pretty unique as far as the crowded “pixellated tribute art” dealio goes, but damned if they don’t now make me actually want some kind of “create-a-Nintendo-game” kit from Revell to show up. soundofdesign’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 12, 2011

The Man Behind Zelda Has Never Finished the First Zelda

If you’ve ever wondered why recent Zelda games have been a little easier than they used to be, consider the man in charge of the series, Eiji Aonuma. Who has never finished the first Zelda “I’ve never actually finished it,” Aonuma told Game Informer. “I almost feel like there’s still no game more difficult than…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2011

Skyward Sword‘s Golden Bundle, Tetris: Axis, and the Latest Layton Cushion Nintendo’s Fall

One does not simply walk into Wal-Mart and spend $50 on a brand-new Zelda game. Not when there’s a chance to spend $20 more for a gold-colored Wii Remote Plus! The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword limited edition bundle, Tetris: Axis for the 3DS and Professor Layton and the Last Specter were hot topics at…

By Mike Fahey Published August 29, 2011

The Sweet, Superb and Scary Cosplay of Gamescom 2011

Gamescom 2011 may have been overcrowded today, but not with people dressed as video game, anime and comic book characters. While European cosplayers did represent at Gamescom, they did so in the corners of the Cologne Messe. There was some great stuff—a respectable Alice in the American McGee style, a quartet of very attractive BlazBlue…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 20, 2011

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Instead of playing the latest and greatest games at Cologne’s Gamescom expo, I’ll be playing a 2009 Legend of Zelda game. What else would I do when faced with 12-plus hours of travel? I’ll hopefully wrap up The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks this weekend, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. I’d really like to put…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 19, 2011

Happy Birthday Zelda, From Your Fans

It’s the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda and to celebrate Nintendo is letting Gamescom fans create their own fan birthday cards for the franchise. Here are a few that graced the wall of Nintendo’s booth earlier this week. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also…

By Brian Crecente Published August 18, 2011

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Takes Flight in November

It would have been a blue Christmas without a new Zelda title under our Christmas Wii, but Nintendo comes through in the nick of the time, announcing a November 20 release date for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The largest Zelda adventure yet and the first designed solely for the Wii (Link’s Crossbow Training…

By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2011

Video Game Snobbery Started a Long Time Ago

The hate of fake games and fake gamers goes back at least to 1988. That’s when a reporter from the esteemed magazine Newsweek was trying to make sense of the “fun, low-brainpower” games kids were playing in America and wanted to understand how some awful Atari-like crash could be avoided in the new age of…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2011

Argument: It’s Time To Make The Legend of Zelda Free. Forever.

Today is the last day when the Legend of Zelda will be free through a special offer on Nintendo’s 3DS It shouldn’t be. If Nintendo is serious about picking up its stumbling 3DS and battling back the insurgent iPhone, The Legend of Zelda should be free forever. Nintendo started selling The Legend of Zelda in…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 11, 2011

Know Your Zelda Animals, Monsters, Beasts, Bird People and Weird Chicken Things

Artist Jude Buffum has come up with this impressive (and informative!) piece called Magna Arbor Vitae Deku. It’s essentially a biology chart of the Zelda universe. The name means “The Great Deku Tree of Life”, and starting at said Great Deku Tree it branches out to include 200 species of creature, good, bad and in…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2011

Zelda Designer Dreams of Zelda Movie

Nintendo made one live action movie, the Super Mario Bros. flick. It sucked. That isn’t stopping Zelda designer Eiji Aonuma from fantasizing about making an epic motion picture with everyone’s favorite green-hatted hero. In the August edition of Nintendo Power, Aonuma confessed that he was personally interested in doing a Zelda movie. “I always thought…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 10, 2011

Zelda Games Used to be a Rare Thing

Because they don’t count the CDi Zelda games, and because they count the repeatedly re-released Ocarina of Time twice, Nintendo promotes a worldview in which 17 [1] Zelda games have been released in the past 25 years. I’m fine with that. But I didn’t notice until I was looking at Nintendo’s new Zelda history chart…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 8, 2011

Be a Part of Zelda‘s 25th Anniversary Celebration with Flipnote Studio

Nintendo wants fans to help them celebrate 25 years of Hyrulian adventure by creating their own Zelda-themed animations in Flipnote Studio, with the winners publically judged by the creators of the beloved series, including one Mr. Miyamoto. Using templates and music made available by Nintendo, fans can use the free Flipnote Studio on their DSi…

By Mike Fahey Published August 8, 2011

Boy, This Lady Loves The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

When nerd heroine Shoko Nakagawa isn’t appearing in Pokémon movies, she’s putting molted bug shells in her hair. And when she’s not doing that, she’s doing other things, like appearing in commercials! Such as a series of spots for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, a game that she was extremely excited to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2011

Ocarina of Time Is a Beautiful Children’s Story

Well, the game is, I guess, in a fairy tale kind of sense, but this wonderful art from Vikki Chu is as children’s story as you can get. Done a couple of years ago as a project, it doesn’t try and tell the entire story of the classic Nintendo adventure, instead recreating the earlier section…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2011