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New Fan Wallpaper: Dungeon Tribute

Is your desktop feeling lonely? Did the last batch of fan wallpapers not satisfy you? Well, Kris Hickey is here to cure your woes. He’s just submitted a beautiful wallpaper set of his own artwork depicting Link running through a dungeon – created entirely in colored pencil. It comes in most every resolution imaginable, so…

By Your Powers Combined… a ZU Marketing Budget!

Good news, everyone! Always wanted to help ZU out in your own, special way, but could never figure out just how to do it? We’re here with the answer. You see, Zelda Universe has been entered in American Express’s Shine A Light contest – a contest that highlights small businesses (like ZU). The prize is…

10+ Styles of Spirit Tracks Artwork

You probably recall the page we mentioned a week ago which showcased more than 30 styles of Zelda artwork – well, we’ve found another set, but this time it is all to the theme of Spirit Tracks. You can check it out here. Personally, I liked the “Steamboat Willie” rendition of Link the best, though…

Some Recent Zelda Comics

This month some newly published webcomics about Zelda have been brought to our attention. We haven’t covered this particular branch of the Zelda fan community before, so we will see how well-received this post is before we decide whether to continue showcasing Zelda webcomics. Brawl in the Family released a comic this month about some…

Zelda Dimension returns as Destination Zelda

If you’ve been keeping up with the Zelda community for a while, you should know Zelda Dimension. One of the more well-known Zelda sites, it won the Golden Light Arrow award for its outstanding community in 2008. Unfortunately, corruption in the database caused the site to lose its data, and it had to shut down…

30+ Styles of Zelda Artwork

The Design Inspiration has launched a page showing more than 30 distinctly different styles of Zelda artwork, ranging from realistic Links to super-cartoony Links to distorted Links to a Link that looks strangely similar to Waluigi. You may recognize the site as the one with the similar page on different styles of Mario artwork back…

Recognition in the Arts

Zelda Universe recently gained more recognition for it’s wonderful content.  From the wonderful people over at LegendofZelda.com, the Lozzies are their version of Zelda awards given out to the best of the best Zelda sites on the net. They handed out two today, the first being the Strategy Geek given to the site with the…

Returners and the Fantastical Marathon

Once again, those wonderful marathon gamers are going at it again, only this time they are going all out with the amount of games and type of games they are playing. They are going to be playing a total of 11 games, all within the Final Fantasy universe.  The game list will feature Final Fantasys…

North Castle Update

North Castle is the oldest active Zelda site on the internet, and the only remaining Zelda site that actually predates Ocarina of Time. This month they hit a milestone of 12 years online, so congratulations to them and here’s to hoping that we’re still around for the wild party on their 21st! Every month, webmistress…

ZU Facebook Page Contest

With both a new Wii and DS Zelda game fast approaching, more and more relevant Zelda news is appearing, and as such we have decided to hold a contest amongst our Facebook fans to expand our page’s fan base (our Facebook page makes our Zelda news updates appear in the friends’ updates list). Once we…

Bank of Hyrule Contest is over!

Entries for the Bank of Hyrule contest, after a week of being open, have been closed. Thank you everyone who entered! We’re going to tally up the entries, run the raffle, pick out our favorite photos, and post all of the results on Wednesday. If you think you won, be on the lookout for an…

Art Tutorial: Creating a ‘Broken Link’

David Cousens from PSDFan has posted a Photoshop tutorial describing the process through which he created a pretty impeccable work of art depicting Link in his Deku Scrub form from Majora’s Mask. The artwork is top-notch, but the tutorial is not for the faint of heart. If you’re not 100% comfortable in Photoshop and lack…

Zelda Prop Contest

For those of you attending Comicon, the Zelda prizes aren’t over yet. Zelda based mini-series The Legend of Neil has decided to celebrate the beginning of their second season by holding a contest – those who wear a LoN t-shirt and visit their booth will win a prize and are also eligible to win one…

The Bank of Hyrule Kickoff Contest

It’s time! For those who didn’t read the post directly below this one, we’re celebrating the launch of The Bank of Hyrule with – what else – a contest! We’re giving away two prizes: Four volumes of VizKid’s The Legend of Zelda manga, and an X-Rocker II gaming chair (with speakers built-in!). To enter, all…

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