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  • Here are your Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword movements

    Here are your Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword movements

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • Do do doot dodo doot! The NES Harmonica!

    Do do doot dodo doot! The NES Harmonica!

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    I don’t know if this is a waste of a good harmonica or a waste of a good NES cartridge but what you see before you is a harmonica hidden inside an honest-to-goodness NES game. The best part? They cost less than the $80 copy of Adventures of Link that the rental place around the [...]

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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?

    Posted on December 19, 2009 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    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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  • Special feather stylus for early buyers of Legend of Zelda – Spirit Tracks

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

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    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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