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By Archaic Sage on the April 24, 2008, 1:47 pm. |
So it's been close to five months since I relaunched Rauru's Return to little fanfare and to an even smaller viewing audience; however, I've been slowly working through the game content that used to be available. Upgrading it wherever possible and now and five months down the line the first Zelda game - The Legend of Zelda is now complete.
Well, I say complete but as many of the older fans here will now, I will never regard a section as truly complete until I have everything completely done, and that includes every piece of Official Art, every screenshot, every, well, everything sorted. However, for now, there's enough information in that section to help everyone.
Any feedback, please comment here or let me know in the usual way. |
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By Archaic Sage on the April 19, 2008, 7:03 am. |
SurferGirl, as ever, is a fairly has a fairly interesting blog to read. For those of you who don't know, she's a writer who has "inside contacts" and will spread rumours across the Internet like wildfire. Sometimes she's dead on, sometimes she's wrong and some things have just never come to light.
She has recently speculated that the latest Zelda title is being made by the famous Retro Studios. The company that made the Metroid series recently.
However, Shigeru Miyamoto has recently confirmed in an article discussing Wii Fit that the Zelda Team are currently back at work, and trying to get the latest Zelda game up and running.
I think we'd gotten to a point where videogames were something that everyone could no longer enjoy. As a designer, I'm always focusing on what is fun — ideas that people can enjoy. For me, I'm trying to entertain as many people as I can, creating games that the widest number of people can enjoy. Of course, that being said, we do have the existing teams at Nintendo working on the kinds of products we've always made over the years. The Zelda team is forming again to work on new games! But to me, it's about finding these new interactive experiences and bringing them to people.
But for the love of god, please don't make a super casual Zelda game. I'm sure I'm not alone with that thought!
Source: Kotaku via 1Up |
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By Archaic Sage on the April 16, 2008, 4:21 am. |
For once the Western world got not just a videogame, but a Zelda videogame before the motherland of Japan did, and that was Link's Crossbow Training. Which is hardly surprising considering the lack of interest in third person shooters in the nation.
However, eager Zelda fans in Japan will now be at peace as the waiting has finally finished as Nintendo have announced a release date for Link's Crossbow Training in Japan. That date? 1st May 2008.
You can see this from the official site:
That means that Japan have been waiting for around about 6 months since this game was released in the US, and 5 months since the game was released in the UK.
Source: GoNintendo / Nintendo Japan |
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By Archaic Sage on the April 16, 2008, 3:42 am. |
On Sunday we broke the news that the Zelda Cartoons may be coming across to the UK in the complete form. Although we have e-mailed the PR guys at DiC Entertainment, they have not replied, so everything is still logged as rumours for now. However, when going back to the Amazon page, the link no longer exists.
However, when a search is done for the title, it now appears with a new name, and some more interesting details. The DVD will be called: Legend of Zelda: Power of the Triforce. The release date is still the same, and the other information is again, still all the same. The only difference is that it's now logged under two separate pages, one is as a co-production between DiC Entertainment and NCircle Entertainment, and the other page is just NCircle Entertainment.
This is an interesting twist, as NCircle Entertainment are the people who published the two Zelda Cartoon DVDs in the USA, titled: Havoc in Hyrule and Ganon's Evil Tower. Furthermore, the two pages that are located on the Amazon.co.uk website, can also be found, with almost identical information on Amazon.com.
So this may be the third DVD in the Zelda Cartoon collection from NCircle Entertainment that's been mislabelled in the UK, or it may be something completely different.
You can see the two UK pages here, and here and the two US pages here and here.
We'll keep you posted on developments. |
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By Archaic Sage on the April 16, 2008, 3:28 am. |
So, with the advent of the new layout for Rauru's Return, the near completion of our first game section (and I know it's taken a long time), I decided it was high time that I retired the old Zelda forum skin: Lake Hylia.
It had done us very well through the period where Rauru's Return was hacked and some of our information went awol. However, now that things are getting back on track, it's time that Lake Hylia went from the old Ocarina of Time design, to the new Twilight Princess design.
So I'm pleased to announce, Lake Hylia V2 has been launched across all of our Zelda forums. With the new skin I've also added a few new additions, such as over 300 new games to our flash arcade, all of which are great, and your own ability to upload and enjoy your own images. Essentially The Temple of Light has it's own Image Shack uploading facility.
If you've never joined our Zelda forums before, it's the perfect time to do so!
Join here. |
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By Archaic Sage on the April 13, 2008, 10:17 am. |
The Legend of Zelda: The Complete Animated Collection has been available in the United States to purchase as a complete box set for a couple of years now, yet again Europe, and the UK in particular missed out on getting this classic 1980's cartoon.
Now for many, this would be a god-send as many people don't actually like the cartoon, but for many others, myself included, it's a great shame as we're all collectors, and in reality the show isn't that bad. Especially when you have a look at some of the other shows around about videogames at the time. Yes, I'm looking at you Sonic Underground.
With all of the catchphrases aside, it looks like The Legend of Zelda: The Complete Animated Collection may be hitting the UK very, very shortly. Published through DiC Entertainment, The Legend of Zelda: The Complete Animated Collection should be on sale across the United Kingdom on the 1st July, 2008.
Although this is still a rumour, and has not been officially confirmed, the Amazon.co.uk page states all of the details, and it's publicly available.
However, my investigative journalism has also informed me that the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) have not yet reviewed this title, so general distribution may be further off than we think. As when you do a search for Zelda on their site, there's only the older information regarding the game, as you can see here.
We should get official word on this tomorrow, hopefully.
Source: Amazon.co.uk |
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By Archaic Sage on the April 10, 2008, 3:02 am. |
The Legend of Zelda is a popular series amongst the masses, with children playing the latest titles with their parents. Owing to this broad appeal, the interest of Zelda players is as vast as it is wide. As most Zelda gamers age, they will find themselves battling against far more vile beasts than Ganon, and aside from taxes and rent, the most vile of all is cooking for yourself.
To make this horrific beast easier to tame, Etsy have decided that it's high time that we make use of the Triforce in our day to day attack on hunger, and have created a Triforce Chopping Board.
A description of the chopping board is:
The board is made of walnut and hard-maple, put together with FDA approved, water-proof glue (Titebond III), and treated with a mixture of mineral oil and beeswax.
End-grain cutting boards like this one are very durable and will not dull your knife edges like some other types of cutting boards might (I'm thinking glass here).
So it's fairly high end, and everyone knows that a wooden chopping board is one the most hygienic places to prepare food on.
You can buy this chopping board here.
Source: Kotaku |
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