Tag: Zelda Publications

The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia will be released in the West in just under two months time with fans of the series gearing up for an extensive read into the world of Hyrule. Quite a number of standard editions of the much-anticipated guidebook have been pre-ordered and demand is set to be high after the long wait for its localization outside of Japan. To create even more hype for Hyrule Historia book publisher Dark Horse is planning on publicizing…

This week a lot of Nintendo fans living in the UK opened their mailboxes to find something they have been looking forward too for a while now, but it also contained a ton of details they probably weren’t expecting. The new edition of the Official Nintendo Magazine has finally been released and the big topic in this coming months edition is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. ONM has rated this game a 98 / 100 the highest they have…

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is set to release on November 20th here in the United States. Much like with every major Zelda release in the last 5-years, Prima Games will be offering two versions of their strategy guide. There is the standard strategy guide, as well as the hard-cover collector’s edition version packaged with some extra goodies. Now, this particular guide holds a special place in my heart. I’m a huge collector of Zelda strategy guides and I…

The latest episode of Mas’ Zelda Collection is now available and this time around it covers a relatively new item. Actually, it’s brand new item having just released a couple weeks back. The October issue of NGamer magazine comes with tons of Zelda goodies. It has a full preview article of Skyward Sword which is identical to the CVG article that we posted a few days back. Additionally, the issue comes with some nice Skyward Sword themed stickers for your…

I’ve continued to update our Zelda Publications page of the website, adding several new Nintendo Power magazines to the listing. If you are unfamiliar with the project, the plan is to go through every single Nintendo Power issue and pull out all the Zelda related material. As long as there is a Zelda reference, outside of the top-listings of each month, the issue is listed on the Publications page, along with the cover artwork of the magazine, links to the…

In the year 1991, mentions of the Super Nintendo began to slowly pop up in the Nintendo Power magazine. While the Super Famicom had already been released as of November of 1990 in Japan, the Super Nintendo didn’t release until Fall of 1991 in the United States. In the months before the release, Nintendo Power was slowly but surely building the hype by offering quick previews of many of the upcoming titles. Super Mario World got a lot of the…

Today I have for you all four more issues of Nintendo Power added to our Zelda Publications archive. If you haven’t been following along, what I am doing is going through all of the old Nintendo Power magazines and pulling out anything related to the Legend of Zelda series. In this update we have four issues ranging from November 1989 to February 1991. During this time period, the two Zelda titles for the NES were beginning to fade away, the…

Today I’ve gone ahead and updated our Nintendo Power Archive collection adding two new magazines with all the Zelda references that there are. We now have the first 8 issues available in our Zelda Publications area of the site. The first 8 issues of Nintendo Power each had some Zelda references with at least 7 of them having specific material dedicated to the games in the form of secrets revealed, strategy guides, a comic strip, etc… If you’re an old…

Several months ago I started up a Zelda Publications page here at Zelda Dungeon. However, with the release of the Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, the project was put on hold… until now. We now have portions of the first 6 issues of Nintendo Power now online ready to be viewed. What I did is went through the magazines, and found all of the Zelda relevant information and put those pages online. You can view all the Zelda pages for…