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Staff Openings – Building a Better ZU Staff Team

[youtube]N5e7EQzSQlc[/youtube] If you haven’t figured it out yet, ZU is nine years old now. Since we’re a little bit older and wiser, Cody and I have collectively decided that it’s time to start looking at the staff of Zelda Universe and begin opening the doors for more staff to come in. Recently, many of our…

Happy 9th Birthday, Zelda Universe!

Can you believe it? Time sure flies – it seems like just yesterday that our founder and savior Lars was planting his flag in the soft, untrodden turf of the Zelda fansite realm. Fast forward to today, and Zelda Universe is the hustlingest, bustlingest Zelda fansite out there. So much has happened in the last…

We won! Zelda Universe Gets a DSi XL

We fought and battled for nearly one whole month against over a dozen other Nintendo fansites – including many Zelda sites – and often we weren’t sure if Zelda Universe was going to come out on top. And yet we persevered. We were resilient. And you – our community – spoke loudly with your votes.…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Completed!

Hey there, everyone – I’m incredibly pleased to announce that Zelda Universe’s Spirit Tracks walkthrough is now one hundred percent complete. I’ve updated the Dark Realm section with the entire final boss section, ranging from facing the Demon Train all the way up Malladus’s dramatic demise. For those of you who finished the game already…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Update: The Dark Realm

Zelda Universe’s Spirit Tracks walkthrough has been updated once again to include the beginnings of the end of the game. That’s right, folks, it now covers the first half of the Dark Realm – bombarding the Armored Trains for survival. Although there’s no clear way to get through this section of the game, the guide…

Spirit Tracks Walkthrough Update: Tower of Crazy

Zelda Universe’s Spirit Tracks walkthrough has FINALLY been updated to include the final visit to the Tower of Spirits! This is one doosy of an update – the section of the walkthrough is massive. Writing it was nuts, but it’s finished and ready! For those of you who might still be stuck on this crazy…

Reminder: One Week Left to Vote for ZU!

[youtube]OW5kXTAJkPk[/youtube] If you all still recall, Zelda Universe was entered in a competition to win a Nintendo DSi console before it’s released in the states – naturally, we really want it! We’ve been pitted against numerous other fan sites for dominance in this competition, including Zelda Informer, and there’s only a week left in the…

Spirit Tracks Soundtrack Now on YouTube Channel

Want to hear select titles from our recently released Spirit Tracks soundtrack but don’t want to go through the trouble of downloading the tracks? Well, think nothing of it any longer; after days of work, the soundtrack has been fully uploaded to our YouTube channel, ZeldaUniverse TV. You can stream any of the 143 tracks…

Spirit Tracks Soundtrack Officially Released!

You waited patiently while we worked and slaved over hot keyboards, and now the day has come. Zelda Universe is finally releasing the largest and most polished Spirit Tracks soundtrack there is – 143 tracks from Nintendo’s latest handheld adventure. All tracks are ripped in VBR Quality 0 (that’s very high quality, for you non-technical…

Reminder: Help ZU Win an Early DSi XL!

[youtube]OW5kXTAJkPk[/youtube] Hey, everyone – it’s your friendly webmaster Jason, here to remind you that we’re still entered in the roughly one-month long epic contest to win us a DSi XL unit before it’s released in the states. Everyone who’s anyone has voted for ZU in our quest for dominance, so if you haven’t already done…

Iwata Unimpressed by iPad, 3D Gaming

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s president, has now made known his opinion on Apple’s latest creation known – and he doesn’t like it very much. In keeping with Nintendo’s trend of apprehensiveness regarding emerging technologies, Iwata has dismissed the iPad as a “large iPod touch” that most likely won’t compete with Nintendo’s latest DS unit, the DSi…

Spirit Tracks – Our Five Favorite Things

[youtube]bzeg2w4rXU4[/youtube] Our friends over at ChrisCrossMedia have put up a video expressing their top five favorite things about The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and we’ve got to agree with their choices. Like their stuff? Head over to their YouTube channel, and check out their Zelda giveaway for the month of January – they’re giving…

Spirit Tracks Soundtrack: Coming February 1st

We here at Zelda Universe have an extensive music section, complete with a wide array of Zelda soundtracks from most every game in the series – except, of course, the recently released Spirit Tracks. Well, that’s all about to change on February 1st. We’re putting the finishing touches on a polished, quality-checked soundtrack release for…

Wind Waker Visual Walkthrough Updated

In keeping with Chuggaaconroy’s great visual walkthrough for The Wind Waker, we’ve updated our official Wind Waker Visual Walkthrough page with his latest episodes. If you’ve never played The Wind Waker before, Chuggaaconroy’s video walkthroughs are some of the best out there to help you get through the game when you’re stuck. If you have…

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