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PC World Touches the DSi

The guys over at PC World have already gotten their mits on the new DSi, and have written a short review that gives a good impression of the device. If you’re curious about the DSi, it’s a good overview of the device’s capabilities. PC World – Hands on With Nintendo’s DSi.

New DSi Appears With Camera, Wifi, Marshmallows

While you’d never expect Nintendo to supply a device that most “casual gamer” people won’t bother to buy, I’m making my prediction right here: This thing isn’t going to take off, and you might see why when you read this announcement – or you might entirely disagree. Nintendo has announced it’s new DS, the DSi,…

Wii to (Finally) Support True SD Card Storage

We’ve been clamoring for it for a while now (since the Wii’s release two years ago), and Nintendo’s finally given in – come Spring 2009 we’ll all be able to use our gratuitously sized SD cards that have been sitting in our Wiis to their full potential. You’ll be able to move your channels to…

ZU’s Looking for a Shiny Second Server

It hasn’t been long since the revamp, and in these few short months ZU has come out of its rebirth as two entities – the highest quality Zelda fan site out there, and, unfortunately, the slowest. The result? A lot of you guys would rather load some other page on the internet much faster than…

Zelda Legends Joins Zelda Wiki

Zelda Legends, another gargantuan Zelda fansite, has hopped on board the Zelda Wiki.org collaborative project. Zelda Legends’s most ambitious project as of late was its Zelda Legends Wiki, which housed a comprehensive bit of Zelda information which will now become a part of Zelda Wiki.org, should the wikiers (is that what they should be called?)…

Forum Rule Revamp

The forum rules were long growing out of date and didn’t have quite enough clarity, so we extensively rewrote them. Please read the updated rules if you’re a forum member – most of it will be what you already know, but a good deal of it clarifies what we’d like to and what we wouldn’t…

The Official ZU Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament

Originally, this was going to be a tournament between two communities – VGRC and ZU – but that got scrapped after the April Fool’s joke got out of hand. So we (me + staffers) decided to hold out on the Brawl tournament, make it ZU-exclusive, and host it after the first pages of the Brawl…

Now Serving Super Smash Bros. Brawl Content

Hello, everyone! I’m incredibly pleased to announce the the Super Smash Bros. Brawl section of the site is now LIVE! We’re starting off with four pages, and a fifth is coming soon. Use the scrolling games menu at the top of the site to access the SSBB section. In there, you’ll find the following new…

The News Managers Commeth

You’ll be seeing these guys around more – we’ve got three new News Managers hopping around the place, discovering the ins and outs of Zelda journalism. A big round of applause to Azerik, lftenjamin (aka lft or Lefty), and Nathan! Azerik has gotten himself a running start by already posting news, and lft is doubltlessly…

Pun Time: Send Link

I happened to come across this funny little Zelda pun while on the internets today. With college bogging up all my time, I might not have the SSBB section shipped out until end of the week (It’s done, I’m just adding all the images right now). Scott and I are discussing news manager applications today…

Maps Pages Still Borked (Also, SSBB Stuff)

I’ve gotten your emails – yes, I’m aware of the strange problem that gives you all 404 errors when you try to view a map image on many of the game pages. I’m working with Scotty to fix it up – maps should be working again soon enough. In SSBB section news, it looks like…

New Default Forum Skin v2.0

I’m VERY happy to announce that our friend Derek – ZU’s temporary Admin of Skins (or, Skinmin, Skin Admin, etc.) over on the forums has been hard at work recreating ZU’s Zelda Temple forum skin. It’s packed with a bunch of new features, and this morning it went live as ZU’s new default skin, superceding…

News Manager Applications Close Monday

This is just a reminder that, due to ZU’s absolute NEED to have frequent news ASAP, I’m closing applications for News Manager on Monday. That means that if you want to apply to be a News Manager for ZU, do it before Tuesday! Scott and I will discuss the applications and add two or three…

Maps Pages Fixed

It came to my attention just today that many of the maps pages weren’t working properly. I went around and fixed up all the links; they SHOULD work now. If any of you guys ever encounter a page that’s blatantly broken like those maps pages, PLEASE contact me about it. I fix these things up…

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