Friend of Zelda Universe and big visual walkthrough-maker person Chuggaaconroy has, as of yesterday, completed his long (very long) walkthrough of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. For those of you who have been following this epic saga of videos, it’s lasted for over seventy parts, over a staggering seventy-nine videos! And, as you…
IGN says that, according to Nintendo Australia, both Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Other M will be released this summer between June and August. In addition to being happy about the news itself, we should also think further: If Mario and Metroid are released this summer, what will be left for the Holiday Season?…
We fought and battled for nearly one whole month against over a dozen other Nintendo fansites – including many Zelda sites – and often we weren’t sure if Zelda Universe was going to come out on top. And yet we persevered. We were resilient. And you – our community – spoke loudly with your votes.…
Since 2005, affiliate Exploding Deku Nut has run the Golden Item Awards, which were created to honor exceptional sites in the Zelda Community. Last year, Zelda Universe won the Golden Bomb Plant award for best layout, and we hope to do well again this year! Nominations have started, and will end on March 14th, 2010.…
[youtube]OW5kXTAJkPk[/youtube] If you all still recall, Zelda Universe was entered in a competition to win a Nintendo DSi console before it’s released in the states – naturally, we really want it! We’ve been pitted against numerous other fan sites for dominance in this competition, including Zelda Informer, and there’s only a week left in the…
Today marks the official launch of Metroid Wiki, an independent Nintendo wiki. Now, this isn’t something that you would normally expect to see reported on a Zelda site, but there happen to be some connections to this particular project within our community. The layout was created by Steve, an admin at Zelda Wiki.org and staff member…
[youtube]OW5kXTAJkPk[/youtube] Hey, everyone – it’s your friendly webmaster Jason, here to remind you that we’re still entered in the roughly one-month long epic contest to win us a DSi XL unit before it’s released in the states. Everyone who’s anyone has voted for ZU in our quest for dominance, so if you haven’t already done…
The development crew behind the original Legend of Zelda have released their original concept art and design documents for the first Legend of Zelda game as part of their latest interview with Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. The interview also revealed some other interesting facts about the Zelda series, such as that Link’s Awakening was inspired…
[youtube]bzeg2w4rXU4[/youtube] Our friends over at ChrisCrossMedia have put up a video expressing their top five favorite things about The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and we’ve got to agree with their choices. Like their stuff? Head over to their YouTube channel, and check out their Zelda giveaway for the month of January – they’re giving…
The Returners, renowned for their charitable gaming marathons, will be at their best once again on March 5th. 13 Zelda games will go down over 72 hours in order to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. We encourage everyone on ZU to watch the marathon when it comes, and chip in for the good cause…
DeviantArt user Lyrin-83 has done what we’d all really like to do on the inside: make a 3D model recreation of Toon Link and use it to build a magnificent papercraft for our own pleasure. Alas, few by those like Lyrin-83 have the drive and determination to do so. The result of such a magical…
Spirit Tracks has been out for over a month now for all of you, and we have several reviews in the works to share our own opinions – but we’re really curious what everyone in the community who had the chance to play through the game thought about Nintendo’s second go at a DS Zelda…
Recently we were contacted about a fairly unusual contest. Usually, places come to us asking if we’d like to give something away – however, this time we were asked if our site would like to enter a contest to win a DSi XL, months before it comes out in the states. As unusual as the…
Here at Zelda Universe, we like to set the bar high. So that’s why we’re starting off the year with the conclusion of Design a Boss | Lupus! Design a Boss lets users share their ideas and compete to prove who can design the greatest boss of all time, and it is coming to an…
Just a couple of weeks ago, a group of Zelda fans released a Zelda fan film, entitled The Hero of Time. Unfortunately, it looks like Nintendo decided that all this free publicity for their series was a bad thing, and ordered the film removed from the internet. The HoT creators had this to say: “Hey,…
