Zelda Archive

  • Here are your Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword movements

    Here are your Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword movements

    The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword might be the Wii's crowning achievement, magnum opus and the single best reason to buy the system. It's going to be huge. Nintendo had a series of posters hung behind its E3 booth that will help you start practicing for the game right now. Click through for what we can only assume are the 11 major control movements for the upcoming Zelda title.

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  • Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword announced along with vastly improved Wii interaction

    Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword announced along with vastly improved Wii interaction

    Here we go: another E3, another Zelda. The latest in the Zelda canon is Skyward Sword, a MotionPlus compatible game that mimics the experience of holding a sword and a shield. Link's on-screen actions mimic your actions completely including the motion of a shield in front of you. Basically this is a more precise version of the previous Zelda Wii interface. With so many people trying so many motion controls, however, I wonder how exciting this will be in context.

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  • Mario Kart (and more) for your Palm Pre

    Mario Kart (and more) for your Palm Pre

    A WebOS port of the popular GB/CGA emulator is pretty rocking’, even though it only runs at 90% speed on a good day. The hackers who figured all this out will get it back up to speed shortly but don’t expect to download this at the Apps Market or whatever Palm is calling it. This [...]

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  • ExtraLives Zelda marathon is happening now

    ExtraLives Zelda marathon is happening now

    Online video chat by Ustream These dudes are doing a 48 hour Zelda marathon for Free the Children. They’re playing Faces of Evil (the CDi version, which is amazingly bad) right now and are accepting donations at Extralives. Up next is Ocarina of Time. Watch and donate! You can chat with the guys here and they have [...]

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  • This dude made a Zelda game in C++. What did you do this year?

    This dude made a Zelda game in C++. What did you do this year?

    A French dude named Christopho has created The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX, essentially a fan homage to the Zelda world. It comes complete with the requisite durdle-durdle-string-string music of the original series as well as a back story so convoluted that Tingle himself might have something to do with it. However, it [...]

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  • Legend of Zelda cartoons now on Hulu

    Legend of Zelda cartoons now on Hulu

    Whelp! There goes everyone’s Friday. You can now catch 13 episodes of The Legend of Zelda on Hulu (if you’re in the US). You’ll recall that the show ran every Friday on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and, for many of us, eclipsed the actual Mario episodes in coolness. The episodes are 15 minutes long. [...]

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  • The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks available today on Nintendo DS/DSi

    The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks available today on Nintendo DS/DSi

    Fans of the Legend of Zelda games who happen to leave the house once in awhile don't need to be told that today marks the newest installment of portable Zelda games, as The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks hits store shelves for the Nintendo DS and DSi for $34.99.

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  • Special feather stylus for early buyers of Legend of Zelda – Spirit Tracks

    Special feather stylus for early buyers of Legend of Zelda – Spirit Tracks

    Well, it looks like Nintendo has done it to us again. Purchasers of the new game, The Legend of Zelda - Spirit Tracks in Japan will receive a special transparent quill stylus when they buy the game. It's not even a pre-order bonus, it's going to be given out on launch day, just not in the U.S.

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  • Six-foot Link statue for sale on eBay

    Six-foot Link statue for sale on eBay

    Monsters under your bed? Yeah, me too. Scary, isn’t it? I hate going to sleep at night! You and I both need one of these six-foot Link statues for protection. Unfortunately, there’s only one for sale on eBay right now. You can have it, I guess. I’ll wait for the next one.

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  • Zelda-fy your baby with this handmade Link outfit

    Zelda-fy your baby with this handmade Link outfit

    zeldaIf you're on the fence about having a baby, consider the fact that you can dress it up however you please. Case in point, this very excellent handmade Link outfit that a user over at the Crafster forums whipped up.

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