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Courtesy of The Daily Drawing comes this niftly fan art mash-up.

Face it – Link is just a cool guy. But never more so than when he’s intricately rendered as an ice sculpture.

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night shall keep me from my duties! Sorry for the update wasteland, ZUsers – I was pretty ill for most of January. But I am returned from the brink with a little tidbit from GameVideos/1Up.com about which Virtual Console titles are worth your precious Wii Points.

File this under the TALES OF INTEREST! category…

Want to know just how much of TP you’ve completed? As a percentile? Without the fractions? The internets got your back, by way of the Twilight Princess Completion Calculator.

TWO TWILIGHTS Pipking: TP has been out for both GC and Wii for a bit now. There are already debates raging all over the internets about which is better. That’ll likely be the new, exciting irritant in the Zelda community for a while – at least until Phantom Hourglass gets everyone rattled about cel-shading again.

pipking Wii are not amused. Well, at least I’m not. And I’m sure I’m not alone. Nintendo’s press blitz finally put an end to months of speculation, hype and fanboy hyperbole. Now we know pretty much everything we’ve wondered about, straight from the horse’s mouth. I take no issue with the price, the launch date…

So, Zelda fans, here’s the question: will you use TP on your Wii? [And thus, much to the general relief of the community, the joke finally died.] Four months (at minimum) stand between you and the moment you make that decision. Last time I talked about versions – how between handhelds and consoles the franchise…

To date there have been twelve Zelda games released by Nintendo, with numbers thirteen and fourteen due to drop later this year. Averaged out over its twenty year history, that’s a new Zelda adventure roughly every one-and-a-half years.

We’ve been here before. Remember that, as January fades softly into February and April looms bright and green in the distance, infinitely far when counting the seconds but next door to now if you pull back and look long at the whole year. Most northernly North Americans are currently looking ahead to the Spring, anxious…

Pipking In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have time to write another Roundtable capping off the year. We’d be too busy for anything but rushed praise of Twilight Princess (originally slated to bow in mid-November), only able to break ourselves away long enough to celebrate its unequivocal crowning as Game of the Year.

Pipking When the ‘revolutionary’ aspect of Nintendo’s next system was first announced in September, there was one question on the minds of Zelda fans: how will Zelda evolve to fit the new controller?

The Minish Cap, Link’s most recent outing for the GBA, is a fun little game. From a graphics standpoint it’s bright and bubbly with Capcom’s trademark fluidity infusing every movement The visuals echo The Wind Waker eerily well for the context of such a small screen. Sound-wise, the GBA pipes out familiar Zelda tunes as…

Lars Here we are, a few months after the first Roundtable, and we are finally ready to start on the second one, and hopefully we will be able to keep on track with one Roundtable per month from now on – I know I will do my best to try and keep it like that.

Nintendo Inc. is the purveyor of some of console gaming’s biggest and oldest stars. Sure, Sonic had his day and Crash Bandicoot made a flash-in-the-pan impression, but both were anomalies for their given systems; a rare foray into the realm of accessible, cartoon-y, bankable characters, at a time when Nintendo and it’s stable of friendly,…