Skyward Sword has been out for less than a month, and already someone has risen to the challenge and completed the ultimate boss rush. YouTube user MilesSMB has posted a 42 minute video (which can be easily navigated via its description box) of Skyward Sword’s boss rush, done with the game’s minimum of six hearts,…
Skyward Sword has been making its rise through G4’s deathmatch, beating such titles as Skyrim and Uncharted 3. In the final battle, Assassin’s Creed vs. Skyward Sword, Nintendo fans celebrated as The Legend of Zelda became champion. However, many Nintendo fans have become annoyed with X-Play, as the announcement that Skyward Sword won included a…
Remember a few months ago when Eiji Aonuma said that the next console Zelda title for the Wii U might not be using motion controls akin to Skyward Sword’s? He’s since changed his mind, and has now stated that motion controls (with similar MotionPlus technology, as featured in Skyward Sword but not in Twilight Princess on the…
UPDATE: According to IGN, Nintendo of America says the below applies to North America as well. For those who haven’t encountered the game-breaking bug in Skyward Sword or have not yet heard about it, you can read about it here. Thankfully, Nintendo has worked to quickly resolve the issue. While this has only been announced…
Despite its huge popularity and rave reviews, Skyward Sword ranks only ninth in November game software sales within the United States. The only Nintendo title to make the top ten list, this most recent installment in the Zelda series has been out for less than a month and when viewed objectively, has done very well…
The celebrity fanbase of Zelda has been utilized recently to advertise the series more and more by Nintendo, most noticeably via Robin Williams and his daughter, Zelda. Nintendo has released a series of videos on their YouTube channel in which celebrity fans of the games, most noticeably Chris Evans of Fantastic Four and Captain America fame, talk…
For those unable to tune in to Spike’s Video Game Awards 2011, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was up for Video Game of the Year, but unfortunately lost to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. More after the jump.
Our beloved franchise’ latest entry has received a great deal of critical praise and fan love, but will it win any awards? In a matter of hours it may win its first: Game of the Year 2011 in Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, airing live tonight at 8pm EST. More after the jump.
Time Magazine, a widespread, non-videogaming magazine in the United States, released a series of 54 “Top Ten Everything” lists to catalogue the best and worst things of 2011. In their top ten videogames list, Skyward Sword, the only Nintendo game present on the list, was ranked number three. This is quite a feat, as 1)…
UPDATE: According to several sources, Nintendo has denied this story, saying Miyamoto is not retiring from his position after all. Shigeru Miyomoto declared in an interview with wired.com that he will be retiring as the head of Nintendo’s EAD: Entertainment, Analysis, and Development department. He has said that he will not be retiring from Nintendo…
We all know how amazing Skyward Sword is, and many of you are still progressing through (I know I am), but what do we do about the bug that could prevent us from finishing the game? Nintendo has released instructions on how to avoid making this mistake, but none on how they plan on fixing…
The voting is over for the Skyward Sword vs Skyrim G4TV poll and Skyward Sword has (just barely) come out on top, which brings it to the final round against Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Ironically, it looks like the final round battle will be one of the easiest for Zelda in the entire competition – after…
Last month, Akira Himekawa, the manga artist who creates the manga adaptions for The Legend of Zelda series, announced on her Twitter that a new manga creation for Skyward Sword is currently in the works. Confirmed by next month’s issue of Nintendo Dream magazine, this is great news not only for manga fans, but for…
So earlier today we posted about the latest G4TV poll pitting Skyward Sword against Skyrim, but controversy seems to have erupted in comments over the apparent claim that the members of this site, “as Skyrim fans”, needed to join forces against the armies of those dreaded Zelda fans and take victory for Skyrim. Just to…
As many of you know, G4 is hosting their annual VideoGame Deathmatch in which the top games of the year are put head to head in a vote by fans to see which title truly deserves to be crowned the best of 2011. The competition has reached round four, and our favorite game of the year…
