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Moon Witch Cartridge: Skyward Sword 24-hour Liveblog

A blog by the name of Moon Witch Cartridge has been celebrating Zelda for this whole month leading up to Skyward Sword, with special articles, recipes, and more.  To finish out the month, Zoheir Beig, the blog’s owner, is doing a 24-hour Skyward Sword liveblog. If you don’t know what that is, we can explain it very…

25 Years in 25 Days – 2001

Ah, 2001. It was a tumultuous year, and a watershed moment for the Zelda franchise and the game industry. It saw the release of not one, but two Zelda games – two Zelda games developed by Capcom, with Nintendo’s blessing.  It was a year that polarized and divided the Zelda fanbase more than any other,…

The evolution of swords

Of all the Zelda items out there in the world, there’s none more central to the whole Zelda experience than the sword.  From being the first item you pick up in the first game to being the item that goes through the most transformations in just about every game, from being one of the main…

When Hyrule goes to war…

A long time ago, I used to play a forum game called Hyrulian War.  The premise of the game was very akin to the board game Risk or Diplomacy, except that our variant was much more complicated and also Zelda-themed.  Upon a vast grid, a handful of players took up the causes of the various…

Zelda Flipnote Studio contest winners announced

Nintendo’s own month-long Make Your Own Zelda Flipnote Contest ran from August to September, and for over a month, the contestants have had to endure the long and arduous wait as Nintendo has sifted and sorted through the entries in all of their territories.  The prizes?  Well, no one was going home with a million…

Skyward Sword features FULLY orchestrated soundtrack

Hold onto your windsock caps.  Shigeru Miyamoto may have hinted that this would be the case long ago, but Nintendo has recently confirmed the fact that Skyward Sword will feature a soundtrack that is, from top to bottom, fully orchestrated.  Super Mario Galaxy 2 was the first Nintendo game to have this as a prominent feature, and…

Our Skyward Sword anti-spoiler promise

If any of you are like me, you’re hoping that October and early November to pass extremely quickly because, well, Skyward Sword is coming out and you’re eager to play!  But if you’re really like me, you’re also hoping that they’ll pass quickly so that, in these critical weeks before the game comes out, you’re deeply…

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