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Jimmy Fallon Loves Zelda

Jimmy Fallon is a geek for videogames, and he doesn’t care who knows it. Unfortunately he was not able to make it out to E3 due to his television program, so he’s bringing E3 to him. On his Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show, he is honoring E3 with Videogames Week, each day featuring a new…

Skyward Demo Area Not in Final Game?

There has been a great deal of talk and speculation about the landscape featured in the E3 demo of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Many people were surprised to see such large mushrooms in Hyrule (which is interesting as the demo seemed to take place in Skyloft, not Hyrule). Many people expressed confusion at seeing…

Bill Trinen Walks You Through the Skyward Demo

Bill Trinen, for those not in the know, is part of Nintendo of America’s localization team. He also acts as Shigeru Miyamoto’s translator at E3 and in interviews. Today GameTrailers released a brief video of Bill Trinen walking us through the Skyward Sword E3 demo a bit. While the video may be short and not…

13 Facts You Might Not Know About Skyward Sword

Since Skyward Sword was revealed at E3, a lot of information and details have surfaced about the game. We’ve been keeping you up to date with all of this information as it’s revealed, but it’s still possible that you might have missed something. Luckily, the folks at GameXplain.com were kind enough to put together an article…

Skyward Sword Controls Posters

While waiting in line for their chance at the new Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, our friends over at Kotaku photographed the wall parallel to the waiting line which was lined with various large sized posters instructing the lucky gamers how to control Link in this brand new title. We have at least six months…

Nintendo Adds More Skyward Sword Videos to E3 Site

Nintendo has put up two new pages on its E3 website – now you can watch the full post-keynote Roundtable discussion, in which Skyward Sword’s plot was revealed, as well as view a short video about Skyward Sword‘s new MotionPlus controls. We recommend giving the Roundtable video your full attention- it’s arguably as important as…

Aonuma Repents for Water Temple’s Difficulty

Remember Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple, where you had to keep taking on and off the Iron Boots? Remember how tedious that was? Well, apparently so do a lot of people. Enough that producer Eiji Aonuma took the time during Nintendo’s E3 post-keynote Roundtable to explicitly apologize for the difficulty – about ten years too…

Aonuma Repents for Water Temple's Difficulty

Remember Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple, where you had to keep taking on and off the Iron Boots? Remember how tedious that was? Well, apparently so do a lot of people. Enough that producer Eiji Aonuma took the time during Nintendo’s E3 post-keynote Roundtable to explicitly apologize for the difficulty – about ten years too…

Everything You Need to Know About Skyward Sword

After the storm of information that was Nintendo’s E3 press conference, we learned about as much of the new Zelda title as we could have hoped. Everything from the graphics to the music to the basics of the story! There was such a wealth of information made available so quickly that it was tough for…

Nintendo’s Official Skyward Sword E3 Page is up!

Nintendo has put up an informative page about The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on its official E3 site! It only really contains the basic information that we already know about the game, but also includes a few videos that you can check out about the exclusive E3  roundtable, special E3 edition of Iwata Asks,…

Nintendo's Official Skyward Sword E3 Page is up!

Nintendo has put up an informative page about The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on its official E3 site! It only really contains the basic information that we already know about the game, but also includes a few videos that you can check out about the exclusive E3  roundtable, special E3 edition of Iwata Asks,…

Skyward Sword Trailer Screenshots Added to Gallery

As the title proclaimeth, we’ve added a bunch of screenshots taken from Skyward Sword‘s official E3 trailer to our Skyward Sword screenshot gallery. The update includes 27 new shots, straight from the E3 trailer, submitted graciously to us by a fan who goes by the name HoG. Thanks, HoG! And don’t forget to check out…

Miyamoto: Skyward Sword Takes Place in Hyrule

In an interview with Joystiq, which covered everything from Donkey Kong to Kid Icarus, Shigeru Miyamoto let it slip that Skyward Sword actually takes place in Hyrule while discussing the importance of the new MotionPlus controls: “Even something as simple as the aiming, which is handled not necessarily with a pointer but by moving your…

Eiji Aonuma Talks Skyward Sword Story, Controls

In an interview with Gamespot, producer Eiji Aonuma clarified some of the finer points of Skyward Sword‘s storyline – namely that the Skyward Sword is found above the clouds in Skyloft and not below the ground. Furthermore, he continues on to say that prior to his finding the Skyward Sword, Links character knows nothing about…

Power Shot Liveblogs Nintendo’s E3 2010 Presentation

Preface by Jason Rappaport: Power Shot, our resident Article Ranger and creator of La Radionovela de los Zelda: Passion de Otaku (featured on our podcast), wishes he could have been the person to liveblog Nintendo’s E3 presentation. Unfortunately, dreams can only come true so often, but that didn’t stop him – resilient and resourceful, Power…

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