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Rare Zelda Items for Sale

If you’ve been wanting to get your hands on some rare Zelda merchandise, an eBay seller has listed several rare items along with some of the more standard fare. Among the more interesting items is the Zelda Game and Watch, a 1980’s Zelda puzzle, original NES and Japanese Famicon games, and Ocarina of Time figurines.…

Zelda for Eternity Fundraiser Marathon

Our friends over at Zelda Eternity are currently playing through all of the Zelda games and plan to play them non-stop for 96 hours in order to raise money for charity. Their goal is to raise at least $500 for the American Cancer Society. They’re streaming all the action live as they play and there’s…

Lake Hylia Cover on Guitar

I love it when talented people combine their talents with Zelda to create things for us fans to enjoy. I’d like to share this piece of music by musician Andrew Del Re, who covers video game music on guitar. He’s done an acoustic cover of the beautiful Lake Hylia music from Twilight Princess.

Zero Punctuation Reviews Ocarina of Time 3D

Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation has reviewed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Zero Punctuation provides a humorous look at video games, delivering the review in rapid-fire speech (hence “zero punctuation”) while often focusing on elements of the game that are bad, flawed or just plain silly. Although the overall tone of the…

Ocarina of Time 3D sells 283,000 copies

Just two weeks after its US release The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D has sold 283,000 copies. This makes it the fifth-highest selling game for the month of June despite having only being out for less than half of the month. Nintendo also sold 143,000 new 3DS systems in June. I wonder how…

Eiji Aonuma reveals more Skyward Sword details

In this week’s Famitsu magazine, an interview with the producer Skyward Sword, Eiji Aonuma, was published.  In this interview, he covers all sorts of topics about Skyward Sword from the characters to the plot to whether or not we will be seeing good ol’ Ganondorf make his famous appearance. If you’re trying to avoid spoilers…

Calling all UK-based Zelda fans

Creative communications agency Dentsu London are working to create a short documentary-style film about Zelda fans. They’re looking for Zelda fans to feature in the film, which will be shot in the UK and aired on the Nintendo Channel as well as potentially online. If you’re aged between 20 and 35 and live in the…

Beautiful New Skyward Sword Artwork

Nintendo has released several new pieces of Skyward Sword official artwork. Depicting three of the game’s main characters, the artwork features a watercolor style with beautiful use of color. Several of the images are updated versions of those released last year.

Temple 2.0: A new layout for a new era

You may have noticed when you arrived at Zelda Universe tonight that the site is looking a little different. For the past few weeks, we’ve been hinting around Twitter and Facebook that changes are coming, and at long last we’re officially launching those very changes, which include not one, but several new layouts, just in…

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