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Hyrule Warriors Legends Japanese file size revealed

Thanks to the ever helpful YouTube user TiLMENDOMiNATiON, who has acquired a download of Hyrule Warriors Legends on a Japanese New 3DS, we now have a rough idea of how much storage space to save for the downloadable eShop version of the game. The download weighs in at a hefty 16,109 blocks, which comes to around 1.96GB…

Nintendo officially joins Tumblr

With a poof of Magic Powder, Nintendo has officially joined the social media site Tumblr, adding to their online presence that already includes such sites as Twitter and Periscope. If you have a Tumblr account, you can follow Nintendo for all of their latest posts. Likely, they’ll be sharing updates on their upcoming games in…

Nintendo wins Mii patent case

Nintendo has won a patent case in Seattle federal court concerning their Mii avatar creation system.  RecogniCorp LLC, a patent-assertion company, filed the case on December 20, 2011, claiming that Nintendo’s Mii system, used on Wii, Wii U and 3DS, infringed their patent. However, Judge Richard A. Jones found that U.S. Patent No. 8,005,303 was invalid.  The…

Nintendo may not be attending GDC 2016

The floor map for GDC (Game Developers Conference) 2016 has been revealed, and sadly, there is no Nintendo booth to be found. There are still small spaces available, but it seems unlikely that Nintendo would take them. Nintendo do have three small Business Meeting Rooms booked, but are absent on the South Hall show floor. This move is…

Standalone Wii U Gamepads now for sale in Japan

For the past several months now, my Wii U GamePad has been malfunctioning. The left joystick has gone awry, and I can’t comfortably control characters; they keep moving left even when I am not moving the joystick itself, and when I want to move right it can barely make the character move in a straight line.…

Nintendo opens official eBay store

It can be pretty frustrating when stock runs out at retailers like Amazon for Nintendo goods. Thankfully, it looks like we now have a new alternative when hunting down Nintendo hardware, as the company have now opened their own official shop on popular auction site eBay. Nintendo icons Mario, Donkey Kong and Link are all…

Our own Humulos shares his wife’s amazing NES quilt

When Zelda Universe staff member Humulos isn’t helping out with our YouTube videos, or making his own, he is lucky enough to sleep warmly under his wife Jessica’s amazing creation: the Quilt Entertainment System. A project ten months in the making, this king-sized quilt features over forty different sprites from NES games ranging from the popular…

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