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Club Nintendo in Japan receives “Nintendo Sound Selection” reward

Club Nintendo of Japan has received a very special soundtrack as a reward which includes the end credits music from a number of classic Nintendo titles. Not surprisingly, there are some included on the CD that come straight from our very own Zelda franchise. Those available on the soundtrack are the staff roll from Spirit Tracks, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and Majora’s Mask 3D,…

A Link to the Past graphic novel due out on May 5

We previously reported that the A Link to the Past comic that appeared in Nintendo Power in 1992 was due to come out as a graphic novel sometime this year. It has now been revealed that the graphic novel by Shotaro Ishinomori will be due out on May 5. Ishinomori is also known for his work on Cyborg 009 and was…

Fanart Friday: Link and Zelda

There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it: Link and Zelda are my favorite romantic pairing in the Zelda franchise. This came full circle in Skyward Sword, where there were actually romantic inklings between the two. BlackberryAuthor of DeviantArt has created this beautiful piece called “Let’s Fly Away“, depicting Link and Zelda lying down in the fields in the…

A Link to the Past intro gets Game of Thrones treatment

With the ongoing rumor that a Zelda television series is in the works and will be a “family-friendly” version of Game of Thrones, YouTube user Megasteakman created a beautiful intro for this uncertain project called “The Game of Hyrule”. The overworld is based on A Link to the Past, with the tagline being “in the Game of Hyrule you…

Zelda U Game Awards presentation came through late, according to Geoff Keighley

According to popular gaming journalist Geoff Keighley, the Zelda U presentation at The Game Awards came together rather last minute. American rock band Imagine Dragons showed up about two or three weeks before the presentation, and everyone in Keighley’s camp was pushing to show the new Zelda. Aonuma was thinking about doing something related to Zelda, but Keighley believed this to be an…

Music Monday: Open the Great Deku Tree

This initial scene from Ocarine of Time was a classic. In a tell-all scene where the Great Deku Tree lays bare the secrets of Hyrule. Link can’t help but sit down and sink in the news. The tree then grants Link with a request: to purge the world of the evil known as Ganondorf. After receiving the…

Nintendo celebrates Women’s History Month with Tetra

Earlier this afternoon, much to my shock, I got an e-mail from Nintendo informing me about Women’s History Month.  It wasn’t so shocking that they were commemorating the month (although I didn’t quite know it was Women’s History Month), but it was shocking that they were featuring The Wind Waker’s very own Tetra as one of the…

Nintendo talks next “dedicated gaming platform”

In the midst of today’s huge news about Nintendo’s partnership with DeNa and their move to mobile gaming on smart devices (we will get to that news later!), Nintendo President Satoru Iwata assured consumers that while Nintendo is pursuing this brand new avenue, they are not abandoning their game platform business. In a statement, Iwata re-iterated that this…

Music Monday: Beginnings

For many, Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda that they experienced. For everyone (at the time), it was their first experience playing Zelda in a 3D world. It opened up brand new gameplay avenues and brought the series to even higher heights than it had already reached. I remember being a 12 year old, being entranced by…

The best of CD-ii Month

With CD-ii U Month in our midst, we at Zelda Universe would like to take a step back and commemorate some of the best pieces of content from last year’s CD-ii Month. While there were so many pieces to chose from, we picked out content which we believe are some of our strongest work from last year. To start…

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