“Stop asking me questions about Zelda Wii, already. Jeeze!” Our friends over at Gaming Media (a German gaming site) just today posted a video interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. The entire interview is in Japanese with German subtitles, and while my German is a bit rusty, the portion that concerns Zelda Wii is posted in its…
By now you’ve certainly heard of 3D Dot Game Heroes, the PS3 exclusive action-adventure game created as an homage to the original The Legend of Zelda. Well, they’ve taken it one step further: a parody of the infamous 1987 commercial for The Legend of Zelda. Everything from the structure of the rap, down to the…
Musician and producer (Lily Allen, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse) Mark Ronson unleashed a music video today for his new song “Circuit Breaker.” The music video is clearly inspired by the NES The Legend of Zelda and the SNES A Link to the Past. It features 16-bit style graphics of a green-clad hero wandering about in a screen-by-screen overworld and…
Love old school Zelda and need something to tide you over until Zelda Wii is released? 3D Dot Game Heroes, an action-adventure PS3 game, was released in the US yesterday and will be released in Europe in two days (May 14th). While some might find it to be a mere “Zelda clone” or a “Zelda…
a part of The Missing Link series of articles Article By Bastian In nearly every The Legend of Zelda video game we explore a vast landscape, usually called “Hyrule”, and yet no two Hyrules are ever identical. Are we meant to believe that Hyrule is constantly suffering cataclysmic natural disasters which are dramatically changing its…
According to a Guinness World Records readers vote in which over 13,000 votes were cast, Zelda finishes third in the category of “favorite videogame series.” This list currently featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition and credits Zelda “for providing players of all skill levels addictive and immersive gameplay, while also featuring one of gaming’s most…
Collecting otherwise useless trinkets for others, removing a creepy curse, reuniting star-crossed lovers. . . It’s all in a day’s work for our green-clad hero. And yet, not at all essential. Our friends over at Wii Potato have written an article on Zelda‘s top five sidequests, the things that we would probably never take time out…
While it may look like (and has been called by some) a take on Fallout 3, the new game Rage by id Software plays and is structured much more like Zelda, according to 1UP’s new article on the game. The setting is post-apocalyptic, mutant-ridden and very, very not-Zelda. But in 1UP’s interview, design director Mark Hooper draws…
What? There was actual design involved? That’s right, kids! Whether you love to hate them (or just plain hate them) it turns out the two Zelda CD-i games developed in tandem (Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon) did actually involve developing like any other game. And also just like any other game, this…
Hello, fellow ZU-ers! It is I, Bastian, introducing myself to you! While I may be the epitome of “lurker” on the forums, I am an avid Zelda news commenter and reader (in that order, at times). So that you can get to know me better, I’ll write a bit about myself. I suppose the most…
