As we all know, GDC is under way, and it could spell great news for Zelda… if we’re lucky. Nintendo’s keynote is poised to begin at 9:00am PST (12:00 EST) today, and IGN will be liveblogging the event as it happens at this address. But be warned – it could be another grand demo of…
Put on your nerd caps for this one – a growing trend around the internet right now is to play video game music through magical lightning makers (or “Tesla Coils” for you smart alecs), so it was only a matter of time before our beloved Legend of Zelda theme song got caught up in the…
ZU’s old comments system was getting rusty, so I went on a hunt for a more customizable and interactive comments system. The old one has been completely nuked and replaced by IntenseDebate, a comments system actually owned by the same guys who make WordPress, the software that powers Zelda Universe. IntenseDebate has a ton more…
UPDATE: After seeing how Facebook Connect works for a day, we’re pulling it to look at other options. It’s very wonky and does not work as we expected or wanted – by a wide margin. It is, however, a useful feature, so we’re going to continue looking at it. Don’t be surprised if you see…
UPDATE: After seeing how Facebook Connect works for a day, we’re pulling it to look at other options. It’s very wonky and does not work as we expected or wanted – by a wide margin. It is, however, a useful feature, so we’re going to continue looking at it. Don’t be surprised if you see…
A long time ago, I had big plans to set up OpenID across Zelda Universe, a system that would enable everybody to login to the main site with their forum account without the need to actually physically link the main site to the forums (as we did a long time ago, and this caused huge…
It is with a lugubrious and hefty heart that I come with such a report today. I have been informed, and feel it right to inform everyone on ZU, that long-time and cherished staff member, Duncan, also known as Hylie, passed away two days ago on March 7th due to complications from cancer. Although Duncan…
EDN, short for Exploding Deku Nut, annually hosts its Golden Item Awards – Zelda-themed awards just for Zelda communities and websites – and I’m incredibly pleased to announce that we were selected as the recipients of the 2009 Golden Bomb Plant award for Most Stunning Site! Click the image or the link above to go…
EDN, short for Exploding Deku Nut, annually hosts its Golden Item Awards – Zelda-themed awards just for Zelda communities and websites – and I’m incredibly pleased to announce that we were selected as the recipients of the 2009 Golden Bomb Plant award for Most Stunning Site! Click the image or the link above to go…
It’s no question that ZU’s most popular section is the Ocarina of Time section, a section that, unfortunately, has been bereft of images for a good time. This is all about to change, starting with the Gold Skulltulas page, which now has one hundred screenshots indicating the location of each Skulltula courtesy of forum-goer 0nilink.…
It’s a real treat for us when eager Zelda fans contact us with wallpapers they want to share with other fans. In that light, there’s a new fan wallpaper up right now, by the talent that is Caleb Myers. Download it here, or on the wallpapers page. Thanks for your submission, Caleb! Fan Wallpaper Tribute…
After a good day of downtime due to a strange crash that happened last night, the forums are up and have been totally repaired. Everything should work fine and dandy. Likewise, bugs in the main site were also repaired and fixed (that were caused by the same crash). Hopefully this won’t happen again, but you…
That’s right, folks – due to a gracious gift from ZU forum member dark-hero, we are now able to provide you with an incredibly nice, very high-quality rendition of the Phantom Hourglass Soundtrack. It’s up for download right now, and consists of 32 tracks straight from the game (with very nice fadeouts, might I add).…
I’m incredibly happy to announce that ZU’s discussion boards have passed the 2,500,000 mark in post count! To give you an idea about how large two and a half million is (million, mind you), I am now going to write a bunch of nonsense that may or may not qualitatively describe 2,500,000: If you were…
When we ported the old ZU articles over to the new ZU, we left something pretty important behind: Who the authors were. We’ve gone back, looked at all our articles, and assigned them the correct authors – and to those authors wondering where their credit had gone for so long, we apologize for not doing…
