Question of the Week: What Is Your Favorite Zelda Weapon?

What Is Your Favorite Zelda Weapon?

• Bow and Arrow
• Bug Catcher's Net
• Ocarina/Flute
• Bomb
• Boomerang

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Throughout the many Legends of Zelda, Link makes use of a rather large variety of weapons. Indeed, the little elfin guy manages to carry an inordinate amount of crap around with him at all times, while lacking even a backpack. Those tunics must have a ton of pockets or something.

Anyway, all of you, tell me what your favorite of Link’s items are. Please leave a comment if I haven’t listed yours in the poll!

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Skyward Sword isn’t the only Zelda title Nintendo will be providing us with this year. The Ocarina of Time remake for 3DS is also well on its way, as these screenshots reveal.

Nintendo’s revamped eShop that will eventually be coming to 3DS will include titles from the Game Gear and TurboGrafx-16 libraries. Game Gear doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but this is the first indication we’ve had that the 3DS’s shop won’ tbe limited to previously handheld games.

Rumour has it that The Hobbit‘s two parts have two names, those being The Hobbit: There and Back Again, and The Hobbit: The/An Unexpected Journey.

Resident Evil 5 (the movie) is bound for theatres September 14, 2012. Everything between now and then is a waiting game for the cinematic treasure.

Nathan Fillion makes an offhand remark about wanting to restart Firefly if only he had the money, and crazy people start sending him cash until he asks them to stop. I wish I had that problem.

Blade Runner, the movie that gets good once you’ve seen it about six times, is getting a sequel and/or prequel. This likely ends my enjoyment of quoting the original.

New Zelda: Skyward Sword trailer hints at Motion+ gameplay

The announcement of a new Mario game for 3DS wasn’t all Iwata had up his proverbial sleeve at GDC yesterday. The Nintendo president also showed off a new trailer for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, viewable above.

The new footage gives stronger hints at what gameplay will be like compared with previous media. Use of Motion+ is evident in things like a block rotation puzzle and traps which require precise sword swings.

There is a “shield” gage which appears under Link’s health, a first for the Zelda series. Link’s sometimes female companion/sometimes sword shows up as a usable item in the HUD as well. What that implies is unclear.

A number of larger non-boss enemies also showed up in the trailer, which has me excited. I’ve always liked the bigger battles in Zelda games that were more about sword skills than obvious “boss gimmicks.”

One weird jester-looking character made an appearance. The white-hair-having, purple-eyeliner-wearing mystery many may be important to the story.

While he was chatting about Zelda, Iwata also mentioned the 25th anniversary of the series and showed off a corresponding logo. Wild speculation indicates something collectible is on its way as part of the celebration.

It is/was Zelda’s 25th anniversary!

Image: Nintendo.

Hi folks, Newbs here. I’m back from my extended journey through the woods of event organization and prepared to tell you about two day old news once again.

Easily the most important thing to occur during my absence, and pretty much the most important thing that will happen between the 3DS’s announcement and its release next month, is that February 21, 2011 was the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda.

Link’s first outing was released in Japan on that date.

To celebrate, 1up put together a piece entitled “25 Things You Didn’t Know About The Legend of Zelda,” which you can read here. Note: that title is misleading, I knew pretty much everything they listed already. Your mileage may vary depending on how cool you are.

Someone also threw together this amazing piece of artwork to remind us all of the characters which have graced the series. Credit goes to this guy.

Of course, for a series as packed with greatness at Zelda, the celebration should really last all year. Two titles in the franchise should be releasing in 2011, so I think Nintendo’s got things covered from their end, but what will you be doing?

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The internet is hard work, and Newbs is worn out. That’s why I, your friend Jiffy the Intern, is here to blast your face with some links while our intrepid hero takes a mental break. I have to; stupid shit waits for no man.

David O. Russell continues to waste his time developing the Uncharted movie. He’s talking about cramming Wahlberg and De Niro into some kind of treasure-hunting crime family story. We’ll see if the Oscar nominated director can finally make the world’s first 50%+ rated video game movie.

Mascot and fake Sony executive Kevin Butler, or whoever operates his Twitter account, was Twitter-bated into sending out the PS3′s security key. You know, the one Sony thinks they can wholly yank from the internet.

The critical consensus is in for Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”: it blows like Peter Parker’s web shooters after catching a glimpse of shirtless Mary Jane through her bedroom window.

Body modder Alex Finch has gotten six Pokéballs tattooed on his arm, and six subdermal implants to go with them. They almost look real.

The X-Box makes people do terrible things. For 11 year-old Brendan Jordan, it made him burden his working class mom with a £1000+ X-Box Live bill. While we’re here, I should point out that Gawker media, which includes the linked-to Kotaku, recently introduced the world to an unnavigable design for their websites.

Activision is officially done with Guitar Hero. The franchise, which kicked off the wildly succesful music game craze just a few years ago, rapidly faded after being milked for all the plastic accesory dollars it could give. Personnel who previously worked on the franchise are either being let go or transferred to other projects. This is what happens when you “exploit” your franchises, Bobby.