In Real Life

See All Of Ocarina Of Time’s Overworld Remapped In A Link To The Past’s Style

Continuing today’s theme of “Superhuman Efforts that Deserve a Standing Ovation”, we now turn our attention to The Legend of Zelda. MaJoRa, a member of the Zelda Fan Game Central community, has rendered all of the overworld from Ocarina of Time in the 2D style of A Link to the Past.


April 19, 2012
In Real Life

Turns Out Drunk Navi Is Just As Annoying As Sober Navi

I, like everyone else familiar with this beaten to death meme, am pretty tired of the “shit X says” videos. Regardless, the irony of featuring Navi for this video is enough to warrant another pass through the joke made popular on the internet.


April 18, 2012
In Real Life

French Presidential Candidate’s Website Hides An 8-Bit Konami Code Surprise

Democratic Movement president François Bayrou may be a longshot in next week’s French presidential election, but he’s won my nonexistent vote with a secret NES-era message hidden in his official website via the Konami Code.


April 17, 2012
Nintendo

The Legend Of Zelda: The Movie (Posters)

Mercifully, The Legend of Zelda series has never the opportunity to be ruined by Hollywood. Perhaps in celebration of this (or maybe just because he thought it would look cool), artist Marinko Milosevski has drawn these posters.


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.


April 10, 2012
Nintendo

It’s Dangerous To Drink Alone. Take Cards.

A year ago, Swiss artist Nelde released some images of an idea for a deck of Zelda playing cards. They were, given the template, almost perfect.


April 5, 2012
In Real Life

Original, Badass Zelda Art By Katsuya Terada

Katsuya Terada is a Japanese artist you may not know by name, but you may definitely know him for his work. He’s done character design for the Blood: The Last Vampire movie. He’s helped out on Western cartoons like Hellboy. He’s even done illustrations for Nintendo Power magazine.


April 3, 2012
In Real Life

Don’t Like The New Face Of Assassin’s Creed? It Could Have Been Worse.

“The Revolutionary War is boring!” “We wanted Japan!” “I don’t like Assassin’s Creed but I love complaining!” There’s no escaping the setting and main character for Assassin’s Creed III now. The best you can do is grin, bear it, and take comfort in the fact that none of these fan-imagined crossovers came to pass.


April 2, 2012
In Real Life

Hey, Zelda, Get Off Link’s Back

He’s got enough to worry about without you banging on about saving this, or doing that, or going wherever.


March 30, 2012
In Real Life

You’ll Want This Triforce Lamp Until You See The Price Tag

This thing is beautiful turned on or off. You can display it proudly on your desk, or hang it up to stand in the air using the secret door on the top.