Author: Rod Lloyd

Happy Monday, Zelda fans! How about we kick off the work week with another exciting Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest? We’ve been highlighting nothing but Tears of the Kingdom screenshots since the game released last year, and I only just realized that we haven’t done enough to celebrate one of the game’s greatest achievements: Ultrahand. This unique ability let’s players create just about anything their imaginations can conceive, so the fact that so few Ultrahand creations have graced the contest is…

Nintendo announced today that the next Indie World Showcase will take place tomorrow, April 17th at 7 AM PST / 10 AM EST. The company promised “roughly 20 minutes of announcements and updates on indie games headed to Nintendo Switch in 2024.” You’ll be able to watch the Indie World Showcase live stream on Nintendo of America’s YouTube channel right here. Indie World Showcases have become a spring-time tradition for Nintendo in recent years, so today’s announcement wasn’t a complete…

What is up, everyone?! Are you ready to kick off another Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest? Truth be told: I fully to planned to have a contest ready for you all last week. But when I realized that an eclipse was to take place last Monday, I scrambled to find a Tears of the Kingdom screenshot that fit with that particular solar phenomenon. I came up short, as you could have guessed by the lack of contest, but here we are…

The game we now know as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was first unveiled to the world at E3 2019, roughly two years after the release of its predecessor Breath of the Wild and roughly four years before its eventual release in May 2023. Thanks in part to an ambition from the developers that no one could have expected and a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic, this hotly anticipated sequel was victim to a protracted development period, multiple delays,…

Last month, a panel of prominent Tears of the Kingdom developers, including Senior Director Takuhiro Dohta, Sound Programmer Junya Osada, and Lead Physics Programmer Takahiro Takayama, hosted a presentation at the 2024 Game Developers Conference. The panel offered several insights into the creation of the massive 2023 Zelda sequel and shared about the core philosophies that guided the team during development. The concept of “multiplicative gameplay,” wherein “action and objects come together to create countless possibilities,” was a particular focus…

Happy April, Zelda fans! I apologize profusely for the lack of Zelda Dungeon Caption Contests lately — let’s just say I was busy spearheading a Four Swords themed week and a big Hot Takes article. But the Caption Contest lives again, just in time for April Fools’ Day! Do you have a silly saying to go over this image of Purah from Tears of the Kingdom? Share it with us here!   Rod LloydRod Lloyd is the Editor-In-Chief at Zelda…

The internet loves a good hot take. All year round, whether you frequent Facebook, Reddit, Bluesky, or the website formerly known as Twitter, users are always ready to share their most controversial or contrarian opinions on just about any given topic. If an unpopular opinion would likely prompt an angry mob to point a dozen swords at your face or chain you in the center of crowded coliseum, you know that your average netizen will swiftly and smugly share it…

The Legend of Zelda fans were feasting in 2011. With the series celebrating its 25th anniversary that year, Nintendo pulled out all the stops to make sure every corner of the fanbase was well fed on Zelda goodness. Ocarina of Time 3D — a remake long desired by fans — released that June, Skyward Sword — the first home console Zelda game in five years — released that November, Hyrule Historia — and the official Zelda timeline with it —…

We celebrate many anniversaries here at Zelda Dungeon. When you cover a longstanding game series like The Legend of Zelda, with over 20 games under its belt, it makes sense that there will always be a special date to mark the calendar by and always a prestigious title to look back on. For example, we honored Ocarina of Time with a retrospective staff feature on its 25th anniversary last November, we remembered A Link Between Worlds with a special editorial on its tenth anniversary…

How is it going out there, Zelda fans? I hope you’re ready for another exciting edition of the Zelda Dungeon Caption Contest! For the past several contests, I’ve been trying to highlight some of the new characters introduced in Tears of the Kingdom, like Mineru and Lady Yona. I was fully prepared to keep this train going by featuring an image of newcomer Tauro (and his impeccable abs), but unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of options out there yet. So,…