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The Bank of Hyrule: The Great Skyward Sword Giveaway

Well, the voters have spoken – and we’re here to give you guys what you wanted. That’s right, the Bank of Hyrule is back and it’s supplying one lucky winner with a guaranteed copy of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword whenever it’s released. Who said that only bad things happen on Friday the 13th?…

Chuggaaconroy is back, baby!

If you haven’t heard yet, it looks like our valiant efforts have paid off – Chuggaaconroy is back on YouTube, unsuspended, with all of his videos returned. To clarify his situation, and make his first (and last) statement on the matter, he’s put up a Black Screen Update video. How did this happen? Chuggaa went…

Walkthrough Pages Working Again

Hey all! Doubtlessly you’ve all noticed – since we did a site upgrade a while back, walkthrough pages’ tables of contents have redirected to themselves, rendering the walkthroughs unviewable. I’m happy to report that as of now that bug has been squashed – the culprit was a hook in WordPress (the software that powers ZU)…

We've reached $100 – what should we give away?

We’re honestly shocked at how fast the Bank of Hyrule has raised $100 for our next contest – it feels like just yesterday that we were giving away a DSi to one lucky winner on ZU. But, lo and behold, the Bank of Hyrule returns several weeks later! Unfortunately, it came up so fast that…

New Page: Skyward Sword Controls

One of the most important additions to Nintendo’s latest Zelda title, Skyward Sword, is the addition of MotionPlus controls. That means that Link’s sword and items, for the first time in Zelda history, respond to the player’s movements in perfect synchronization. Naturally, with such sophisticated technology comes an entirely new way of playing our favorite…

Page Update: Creation of Hyrule Expanded!

Thanks to one of our soon-to-be staff members, Adam Debes, the Creation of Hyrule page has received its first update since 2008: The inclusion of a “Legend of the Triforce” subsection in addition to the normal story of Din, Nayru and Farore’s creation of the land of Hyrule. You can check it out here, or…

Page Update: Melee and Majora's Mask OST Links Fixed

Another day, another update – we got a few reports that there were some broken links on two more soundtrack pages after we posted our last update about broken links on a different soundtrack page (we promise, one day these will all be gone). This time around, the Majora’s Mask OST and SSBM Smashing… Live!…

Page Update: Melee and Majora’s Mask OST Links Fixed

Another day, another update – we got a few reports that there were some broken links on two more soundtrack pages after we posted our last update about broken links on a different soundtrack page (we promise, one day these will all be gone). This time around, the Majora’s Mask OST and SSBM Smashing… Live!…

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