So our server outage last week couldn’t have come at a worse time. Nintendo’s Skyward Sword and Four Swords: Anniversary Edition marketing engine has begun to spit out little clips and screenshots of the most anticipated Zelda game at an ever rapid pace, and… we weren’t able to cover it as they were all coming out. That…
Greetings Zelda Universe! If you’re seeing this, that means that we’re finally through the worst of the problems that have been plaguing ZU for the past week, and this is good news for you and us alike! If you hadn’t heard the stories that have been taking place via our YouTube channel or Facebook or…
by Hylian Dan In this five-part article series for The Missing Link, renowned Zelda theorist Hylian Dan discusses The Wind Waker‘s deepest themes and philosophical connections. Read the entire article below. Contents Introduction PART ONE: Leaving Paradise Introduction The Islander and the Sailor The Longing of the Heart Immovable Objects Escaping the Cage PART TWO: Growing Wings…
The Soul of a Zelda Game Article By Hylian Dan Will video games as a medium be forever relegated to the pop cultural ghetto? Or will they establish themselves alongside such revered media as film, literature, and music? Designer Chris Hecker tackled this question in a keynote address covered by Gamasutra. As I reviewed his…
By Dan Merrill, aka Hylian Dan Contents Introduction The first Zelda game I ever played was Link’s Awakening. I wasn’t very good at it. When I finally beat the game after a few years, the death count that showed up next to my file was pretty high. I decided to play the game again, this…
Nintendo’s 3DS conference took place earlier today in Japan and seems to be more or less the prelude to the Tokyo Game Show taking place later this week. And what better way to start off Nintendo’s 3DS conference than one of the most anticipated games for the… Nintendo Wii. Well, who cares if it’s not…
In what could be the most bizarre twist yet for the Nintendo 3DS (and that’s saying something given the year that the 3DS has had so far), rumors have been circulating all day—now confirmed with a leaked “Famitsu” magazine page—of a new peripheral that will extend the functionality of the Nintendo 3DS to have an…
Warning: This article contains details about the Skyward Sword demo. If you don’t want to be spoiled, proceed with extreme caution. I’m a little late in getting this posted online, but I swear that I’m just not as young as I used to be. This year will mark my fifth consecutive PAX, and while I’m always…
Despite the fact that I feel that Nintendo has jilted me these past few years, there’s still a not-so-secret place in my heart for the lover I once had. And certainly despite my attempt at aloofness, I still eagerly look forward to Nintendo every year at E3, at the Tokyo Game Show, at Christmastime, and…
For the ZU devout, Ocarina of Time 3DS might have been the turning of tide for the Nintendo 3DS. When Reggie Fils-Aime spoke with Kotaku back in June, he pretty much admitted that the 3DS had some hiccups getting out of the gates. “But when we started talking to consumers who were aware or interested, but…
What do you get when you mix The Legend of Zelda with a Hollywood blockbuster trilogy? If you’re thinking of Zelda appearing on the big, silver screen, well, that’s not quite what what we were thinking, and that’s probably a relief to some. But if you answered that it results in about six minutes worth…
The Wii U has promised to be all that and a bag of potato chips. Games for everyone, and games for you, or so they say. It’ll have 1080p-resolution graphics. It’ll have high-resolution Blu-Ray-comparable discs. It’ll have a controller with a hi-res touchscreen in the middle. And we’re promised it’ll have all the online you…
I’m sure many of you remember the trite and clichéd threats from your parents about what would happen if you kept on misbehaving. “Your face is going to freeze like that,” I remember hearing. “Don’t sit that close to the television; you’ll go blind!” And then, perhaps one of the most famous ones that my…
Public relations for videogame companies has got to be a hard job. The task set before PR is one akin to walking a tightrope; you have to put forward a positive spin on all of your company’s decisions—both good and bad—whilst making sure your customers don’t catch you in an outright lie. But PR in…
Public relations for videogame companies has got to be a hard job. The task set before PR is one akin to walking a tightrope; you have to put forward a positive spin on all of your company’s decisions—both good and bad—whilst making sure your customers don’t catch you in an outright lie. But PR in…
