Retro

This Is How You Make Retro Video Game Characters Even More Retro

Kotaku AU

Time for your yearly dose of video game art from feudal Japan. What, you’ve never seen Megaman, Link and Samus drawn as woodblock prints? Well, let’s do something about that.


May 7, 2012
In Real Life

Zelda LEGO Is a Great Idea, But I’m Not Sold On The Tetris Transformer

Kotaku AU

As you may or may not be aware, LEGO is doing this crowd sourcing thing, to get idea for new types of LEGO. The idea is this — if you come up with an idea for a new LEGO product, and get 10,000 people to support that idea, LEGO will take the concept into consideration. As you might expect — more than a few video game ideas have come up, and one of those is for Zelda LEGO.


May 4, 2012
In Real Life

Charlie Brown As The Hero Of Hyrule? Good Grief!

Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strips stand as one of the most brilliant artistic achievements of the 20th century. You could say the same about The Legend of Zelda video games.


April 27, 2012
In Real Life

How Beautiful Video Game Shirts Are Made

Japan’s King of Games are one of the finest video game clothing merchants on the planet. Anyone who’s owned one of their shirts, or even been around one, know they ooze quality, from the fancy boxes they ship in to the durability of the prints.


April 24, 2012
In Real Life

Mega64 Takes Skyward Sword Motion Control To The Streets

Normally, comedy team Mega64 deploys just one of its members into public to act as a video game character. For The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword they sent two: one to be Link, the other to control Link.


April 21, 2012
Nintendo

There Are Few Things Funnier Than The Legend Of Zelda With An Assault Rifle

Really, doesn’t this video just make you want to play the hell out of a Zelda first-person shooter? It’d certainly be more interesting than Brown Military Shooter #43242395823532.


April 16, 2012
In Real Life

The Legend Of Zelda: The Musical

Kotaku AU

With the exception of Team America and possibly Aladdin, I can’t think of a single musical I’ve legitimately enjoyed, but this musical reworking of Zelda is a little bit spiffy. Also: you get to watch Zelda and Malon fight over Link, which is pretty much every male Zelda fan’s bizarre dream come true. Yeah, it gets a bit weird…


Nintendo

Watch Little Link Complete Ocarina Of Time In Just 25 Minutes

Kotaku AU

A recently discovered warp glitch in The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time on Nintendo 64 has almost halved the time it takes to complete the game, if you’re determined to do it as quickly as possible. In the video above, the player, who goes by the name “ZeldaFreakGlitcha” on YouTube, blasts through the classic in a bit under 26 minutes.


April 13, 2012
News

Miyamoto Says He’d Like To Make A Spiritual Sequel To A Link To The Past

It’s been a long time since Shigeru Miyamoto’s directly worked on a Legend of Zelda game. 1991, to be exact. That’s the year that the classic A Link to the Past hit the SNES. Now, recent remarks from Nintendo’s creative leader make it sound like he’d be up for revisiting that chapter of Link’s video game life.


April 11, 2012
In Real Life

I’ve Never Seen Someone As Scared Of Chickens As This Kid

We got an email overnight from a reader, and the subject line was “Real life Zelda?”. I feared the worst. Some bad fan art, perhaps, or even worse, an awful fan film project. How wrong I was.