Few were shocked when it was recently revealed that the Breath of the Wild sequel would not launch this year, but that’s OK! The folks over at Fanatix Four made a video rundown of current Nintendo Switch games that are Zelda-like enough to fill the void left by the delay of the anticipated title. In…
One Ocarina of Time 100% speedrunning category has seen a lot of action in the last few days. The world record has changed hands three times in the past two days, but two runs are not reported on speedrun.com at the time of this writing. Two speedrunners, Glitchymon and ZFG, are in a close competition…
Modders are no strangers within the Zelda community, having swapped Link with Zelda and adding Mario and Bowser into Breath of the Wild. This time, a new mod created by banan039 replaces Link with Luigi in the game. Check out the video below to see if Luigi has what it takes to face enemies a…
There are plenty of cosplayers out there choosing to cosplay as Princess Zelda and it’s not hard to understand why. She’s often friendly, wears pretty dresses, and is one of the most important characters in the Zelda games, after all. Cosplayer Hailey Yikes is one of many who had chosen to portray the latest incarnation…
As gaming hardware ages, we face a number of issues regarding the continued use of retro devices. Whether that be due to age-related hardware failures, dying internal batteries, or modern televisions and monitors no longer utilizing the same A/V connectors as in days past. None of these issues are exactly simple to fix as the…
Reggie Fils-Aimé retired as president of Nintendo of America just over a year ago. While that may mean he no longer has the responsibilities of running Nintendo of America anymore, he has been far from kicking back around the house doing nothing all this time. In the time since, he has taken on the role…
YOGA Cosplay has just uploaded a detailed tutorial about how you can create your very own replica of the iconic Majora’s Mask. YOGA goes through a detailed step-by-step process on how you can bring this creation to life, including deep insight into the materials you will need for its production. YOGA has also been kind…
Video game modder Mark Kurko of KurkoMods has a new trailer for his Banjo-Kazooie/Ocarina of Time crossover project, Jiggies of Time. His latest video shows several scenes, from a signpost in Hyrule Field stylized as Gruntilda, to Hyrule Castle in the art style of Banjo Kazooie. Banjo can be seen traveling through familiar sites with…
This news is a few weeks old, but it hasn’t really made the rounds yet. The Radio Hyrule team spent a week in March preparing a gift for the Zelda community. They have revived the Zelda Reorchestrated (ZREO) website which went offline in 2013. The restored website is meant to be as close to the…
Boss Fight Books has published twenty-three books about classic video games in four “seasons” since 2013. Now, they’re back with a new Kickstarter for their fifth season, which also features their first book about a Zelda game. The new season, titled Into the Darkness, includes books about Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil, Silent Hill 2,…
In this week’s Zelda News video, Amanda gives some of the most inspirational speedrunning news ever, Nintendo Switch accounts are being hacked, a new Breath of the Wild-like game is catching our attention, and more. Many people are doing what they can to help with COVID-19, and Games Done Quick truly went the extra mile…
On Friday, April 24, 2020, five streamers along with Crowd Control and St. Jude PLAY LIVE ran a mini-marathon of games using the Crowd Control service to raise money for the research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The event ran for approximately 13 hours and in that time $50k was raised. In terms of…
Total donations are in for Corona Relief Done Quick, the speedrunning charity event hosted by Games Done Quick (GDQ) on April 17-19. The results for the impromptu virtual event are nothing short of remarkable. Over $400,000 USD was raised in just shy of 60 hours, a new record for GDQ’s side speedrunning events. Recently, we…
From April 17-19, Games Done Quick (GDQ), a charity organization that holds semiannual speedrunning events, hosted a speedrunning marathon to raise money for COVID-19 aid. The event, titled Corona Relief Done Quick, raised $400,000 in 60 hours. The money raised went to Direct Relief, which the organization notes is “a humanitarian aid organization, active in…
The past few weeks and months have been a time of uncertainty, fear, and anxiety for many. The effects of the global pandemic have taken their toll on everyone in various ways, from the people who are self-isolating in their homes, to the people who are now unemployed, to the medical professionals putting themselves at…
