Tag: iOS

The Legend of Zelda series is infamous for having many goodies to be discovered along your journey, and heart pieces  are one of those things that many of us are desperate to hunt down. Guides like what you can find here at Zelda Dungeon are immensely helpful in those searches, but now you have a new tool at your disposal! Trident Group has created an app to help you not only track down all of those important little heart pieces…

Garfield creator Jim Davis has been talking video games in his most recent interview with Venture Beat. Admitting his partial hiatus from the gaming world, Davis talks about his new project Garfield: Survival of the Fattest, an upcoming mobile game that looks to be in the same vein as the likes of The Simpsons: Tapped Out or FarmVille. It is doubtful that this game has much taken from the Zelda formula, but make the link to check out the interview in which Davis talks…

In 2012 the heavily Zelda-inspired game Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas released in the app store, but now its adventure and JRPG elements have made it popular enough to be picked up by Steam. It is available for purchase in the Steam Store for $14.99 and has received very positive reviews. Oceanhorn is an adventure game set in a world that blends fantasy and technology, its story surrounds an ancient sea monster that tirelessly tries to hunt down the player;…

Have you ever been struck by the overwhelming urge to play the original Legend of Zelda, but happened to be stranded in public without a 3DS? For those of you who’ve experienced this struggle, computer programmer Rich McLaughlin has got you covered. In an effort to combine his love of videogames and JavaScript, McLaughlin created The Legend of Zelda in browser-based HTML5 using Canvas. He had to recreate the game from scratch, so he made some minor changes along the…

A new Android (and possibly iOS) app is planned by the creator of LegendZelda.Net, but it needs some help reaching the funding goal at Kickstarter. The concept of the application is if you’re stuck in a game, you can take a picture of your screen with your phone, and the application will figure out where you are in the game and point you to the right section of a walkthrough. Unfortunately, this project does not have a lot of time to…

The Legend of Zelda has inspired dozens upon hundreds of games over the years. From direct inspirations (such as The Binding of Isaac) to parodies (like a personal favorite of mine, The Legend of Zelda: The Lampshade of No Real Significance), the series has had a profound effect on video games over the years. Occasionally though, the series has seen its fair share of, shall we say, ripoffs. These are games that attempt nothing in the way of originality or…

Last Thursday a new game was released for the iPhone and iPad in celebration of the 30th birthday of Pitfall! for the Atari 2600. The iOS app, also titled Pitfall! is heavily inspired by the popular game Temple Run which many of you may know of already. What does any of this have to do with Zelda? Well, being a fan of the Atari classic myself, I picked up the game to find that Activision had borrowed a tune from…