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Princess Zelda, whose name lies in the title of the game franchise that centers around Link’s heroics, has always been portrayed as your classic damsel in distress. Nintendo has shown a willingness to deviate from the beaten path when Spirit Tracks made Zelda Link’s anxious, pre-teen companion. She was along for the ride in the form of a maneuverable Phantom and played a much more important role than in previous games. The thing to note here is that she engaged…

Super Smash Bros. is a great fighting series of video games that takes many different characters from the main Nintendo series and puts them all in one game to fight. The series started with a hand full of Nintendo characters and over the years has slowly been adding several new characters not only from Nintendo, but from other franchises as well. With every new Super Smash Bros. game that is announced fans try and theorize about the roster and which…

A couple of years back the staff over at GameInformer met for a debate lasting hours on the top 200 games of all time. At the end of the day one game stood above the rest. The original The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System came in first. This game has influenced countless other titles and continues to do so to this day. September was full of content including spoilers, hints and videos from Game Informer honoring the…

The Legend of Zelda cartoons from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show: every Zelda fan has probably heard of it, few have watched it, and even fewer love it. The show aired in 1989 once a week for a mere thirteen episodes. The basic premise was simple enough; Zelda has the Triforce of Wisdom, while Ganon has the Triforce of Power. Whoever captures both Triforce pieces is the ruler of Hyrule. This leads to Ganon sending minions to steal the…

During this developer roundtable there is a quick look at some features of the Super Mario 3D game. We previously reported this video noting the ‘Siren World’, but we didn’t mention this other Zelda goodie. If you watch the video around 2:20, there’s a quick mention of a top down section of the game which was called a tribute to the classic top down Legend of Zelda games in honor of Zelda’s 25th anniversary.

GameFAQs is holding a Game of the Decade poll, covering 2000-2009. Of course we’re posting about it because there is a Zelda game on the poll! There have been multiple polls to eliminate certain games tournament style, and in fact two Zelda games have been in the competition: Twilight Princess and Majora’s Mask. Twilight Princess was eliminated early on by Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but Majora’s Mask has beaten Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Final Fantasy X. It…

Whassup people? Got a slightly special mailbag for you this week! This one, except for two questions, is all about Zelda Wii! E3 is drawing near, so there’ll be a lot more to see when they reveal more on the game then, but for now I’ll try to talk about it as much as possible. The questions and their timestamps are: (00:06) – Did you like Chancellor Cole in Spirit Tracks? (00:34) – Do you like rolling in Zelda, and…