From July 1st to August 1st, The Speed Gamers will be broadcasting nightly streams of the Zelda series! This nightly marathon is being held to benefit ACT Today!, an organization dedicated to helping military children with autism and their families. However, this isn’t your run-of-the-mill gaming marathon. Rather than playing for donations, The Speed Gamers…
In a recent interview with Gamespot, Eiji Aonuma shed a little more light on some of the changes Skyward Sword will bring to the Zelda series. Most notably, Aonuma stated that the basic gameplay structure of the new title will be different: “If you look at The Legend of Zelda as a series, there are…
Every week (or something very close to that), Cody posts a video on ZeldaUniverseTV in which he summarizes all of the Zelda and ZU news from the past week for our YouTube subscribers. This week, he covers all of the news you’ve seen here on the main site along with the announcement of a special…
Streamlining Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 3DS Guest Article by Joshua Lindquist These last few weeks have been busy for Zelda fans, but with the news slowing down we have an opportunity to examine what we’ve learned a little more carefully. Going into the E3, we all knew that Skyward Sword would be revealed,…
ZU member SteelSlasher has launched a Zelda Community Fan Game Project over on our forums! The game, titled The Legend of Zelda: Last Chapter of Hyrule, is being developed for the Wii as a Homebrew game and will also be compatible on PC. As SteelSlasher has been working on a game engine for around six…
See that list of affiliated Zelda fan-sites over to the right? No, no, scroll down a little. There you go! The websites included in our list of Zelda Friends aren’t just there because they throw great parties, but because we here at Zelda Universe admire them for the work that they put into creating articles…
User Lint22 recently submitted this diagram, which compares the graphics of Skyward Sword to those of the last main console Zelda game, Twilight Princess. While the graphical styles of the two games are obviously different, is Skyward Sword graphically superior to its predecessor? Does it represent not only a step in a new direction, but…
After over 250 entries (and the eternity required to read through and judge each one), we’ve made our decision! That’s right – we’re here to announce the winner of our DSi contest. A lot has happened since the contest first launched – namely E3 and the announcement of Skyward Sword – so here’s a quick…
Today’s Fan Art Spotlight focuses on Jehanne, a member who is actually a Global Moderator over on our forums! Check out her sketched-then-inked rendition of Link from the recently released art for Skyward Sword, and be sure to pay a visit to her thread. If you have any fan art of your own, post it…
After being out of commission for a while after his computer decided to die the day before E3, our wonderful webmaster, Cody, is back, and he’s made a video discussing the new art style of Skyward Sword. Donning several different hats, rapping, and making a valiant attempt at an American accent, Cody presents the most…
After being out of commission for a while after his computer decided to die the day before E3, our wonderful webmaster, Cody, is back, and he’s made a video discussing the new art style of Skyward Sword. Donning several different hats, rapping, and making a valiant attempt at an American accent, Cody presents the most…
Remember what I said a while back about Gippaloo’s My Little Epona? How sometimes, something is so cute that it begs to be delivered to the masses in as timely a manner as possible? Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s happened again, and today’s Fan Art Spotlight shines on a picture of Majora’s Wrath. “How can…
Our Skyward Sword section has received another update! This time, we’ve added an enemies page with images and descriptions of all of the enemies revealed to be in the game so far through trailers and Nintendo’s E3 demo. This information will be updated as we learn more about the enemies who are out to thwart…
We’ve updated our Skyward Sword section to include an items and equipment page. This new batch of information covers all of the items revealed to us thus far through trailers and Nintendo’s E3 demo of the game. The page contains pictures and descriptions of each item, and will be updated as we learn more about…
What Skyward Sword Can Do to Improve Boss Encounters Guest Article by Joshua Lindquist The bosses of The Legend of Zelda have changed significantly over the years. They began as very simple fights that often required nothing more than striking the boss with your sword, but the latest boss encounters are complex fights that could…
