In his first console adventure since Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards – that’s a whopping seven year absence – Nintendo decided to remix the entire Kirby formula. In fact, the game hardly looks like Kirby anymore. Well, not the Kirby you’ve come to know. The game appears to be entirely made of yarn, hence its…
Epic Mickey has been known about for a little while – it was originally in development for XBOX 360 and PS3, but shifted focus to become a Wii title. Looks like Disney made the right decision; the game looks and plays fantastic. Epic Mickey, for those not in the know, is a hybrid platforming-style RPG…
GoldenEye 007, the shooter game that defined shooter games in the age of the N64, is getting its long-anticipated Wii remake – and it’s going to be out by the end of this calendar year. The game features 16 different modes of play, including Paintball, Melee Only, You Only Live Twice, and Splitscreen Multiplayer. Look…
Many Zelda fans are also RPG fans (we’re even affiliates with Golden Sun Realm) – so naturally, nobody was more excited than we were to hear that Golden Sun DS finally has an official title and storyline. Now going by the name Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, it takes place 30 years after the original game.…
Nintendo today, at its E3 2010 press event, announced several new “bridge titles” – titles meant for casual gamers meant to “bridge” them into the realm of gaming. The first of these titles is Mario Sports Mix, a new Mario sports game consisting of everything from volleyball to basketball. That’ll hit retail stores sometime in…
While Nintendo never gave us a concrete date prior to now, they had strongly hinted that the new Zelda game would grace the shelves by the end of this year. Alas, that did not quite pan out. Miyamoto promised at E3 that we’d be able to get our hands on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward…
After endless debate and speculation, we finally know Zelda Wii’s official name! The title of the new Zelda game is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In addition, the game features cel shaded graphics a la The Wind Waker, but features adult Link a la Twilight Princess. Several new items also make an appearance, such…
Nintendo’s E3 2010 keynote is upon us, and it’s happening at 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST. Nintendo blew us away in 2009 – what can we expect to see in 2010? It’s almost guaranteed we’ll be hearing about Zelda Wii and the mysterious Nintendo 3DS. However, New Super Mario Bros. DS 2 as well as…
We’ve been waiting for console Zelda news for nearly six years now – E3 2004 was the last time Nintendo announced a console Zelda – and it looks like this year is going to be the big year. What will Zelda Wii be all about? What other surprises will Nintendo have in store for us…
This is just a friendly reminder to all of you readers out there that we’re giving away a DSi (you can even pick the color!), and we’re taking entries only until midnight tomorrow. All you need to do to enter is write, in 800 words or less, what you think the plot of Zelda Wii…
As if Zelda fans didn’t already have enough to be excited, Gamespot has released the showfloor map for E3 2010. Why is this important? Well, included in Nintendo’s list of featured games is none other than Zelda Wii. Although Gamespot is not an official source for E3 showfloor maps, that the game is included on their…
It’s hard to believe that we’ve finally reached our $250 goal – when the Bank of Hyrule opened as ZU’s rather experimental contest fund, we weren’t sure how things would turn out, or if we would ever have enough money to run the contest that everyone donated money to support. Well, now is finally that…
Nintendo has officially announced that they will be hosting live stream footage of their E3 panel on their official E3 Website, so that fans can easily watch the show without having any trouble. It’s an indication that this year’s E3 will most likely be very special, by which I mean the long awaited announcement of…
3D Dot Game Heroes: More Zelda than Zelda? An Article by The Missing Link Living in this thing called “real life” can be somewhat disconcerting sometimes. I mean, looking back to the days of college and high school, I now realize and miss the absolutely obscene amounts of free time I had before I entered…
As we begin gearing up for Zelda Wii – rumors abound, we’re learning more about the storyline and gameplay, as well as the names of characters – there comes a time when we’ve got to buckle down and start acknowledging what we’ve learned about the next Zelda game. For us, that time is now. We…
