YouTuber MikGtr9 has created a great guitar cover of “The Great Sea” from Wind Waker. He has covered multiple other songs including Dragon Roost Island and Pokemon Center. Check out a bunch of his other videos on his YouTube channel: MikGtr9
Is your body ready? Nintendo is (presumably) set to announce the Wii U release date and pricing tomorrow, September 13th, at 10am EST.
You can check back here for all the news, but if you want in on the action, Nintendo is streaming the event from their Wii U Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/WiiU?ref=ts
If you don’t want to watch, or you’re too busy to watch, fear not. I will post all the latest Wii U info after the event, so come back to Hyrule.net to get informed!
Who is looking forward to the Wii U? What questions do you hope Nintendo will answer?
All of this Nintendo-social-network stuff came upon me by accident. I was chatting with Iwata at Nintendo’s San Francisco-area offices about Nintendo’s new 3DS XL and their latest Mario game. We were running out of time and I remembered an intriguing comment Iwata had made in a pre-recorded video address before the E3 show in June about how the company was going to start an online service called Miiverse for this fall’s new Wii U console and how this new service would, among other things, increase gamers’ sense of “empathy” for each other.
“Empathy.”
The debut episode of Pols Voice is here, a new podcast, for the week of January 29th! And what an episode it is, as the theme this week is Skyward Sword. We cover pretty much everything to do with the game, as well as some things that have nothing to do with anything at all.
Show Notes:
- Five rugged, manly hosts: it’s a barbershop quartet plus one
- Extensive discussion of Skyward Sword with full spoilers
- The news you need to know in the world of Zelda
- Naughty language and other flights of fancy
- Saha gets a package in the mail
- The hosts have intense arguments about pronunciation
- Saha drops some powerful new theories of his about Skyward Sword
- Nothing secret is said in Pheo’s absence at all
Episode Hosts:
- Nabeshin
- Pheonix561
- Sahaqiel
- Ganondorf333
- Fierce Muffin
Credits and Everything Else:
- Music from The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony
- http://nelde.deviantart.com/gallery/34860665
- http://nayruchan.deviantart.com/gallery/28024295
Discuss this episode in the forums!
Nintendo released an announcement that the 3DS has sold 4.5 Million units in the United States alone. They’ve also included a timeline of some of the many milestones the 3DS has achieved (found after the jump). While the 3DS has reached 4.5M in sales in the US it will also be celebrating it’s first birthday here in just a couple of weeks.
Check out some of the milestones after the jump!
YouTuber AVGanondorf sent an email containing one of his many videos playing musical pieces using just the ocarina from Ocarina of Time. Below is an embed of him playing “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” By Bach. You can find some other zelda related musical pieces on his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AVGanondorf
Shortly after announcing that Ocarina of Time 3D was going for $30 over at Amazon, I found out that Skyward Sword can also be found at a discount price of $40. This copy also includes the Music CD containing orchestrated music from various songs from throughout the series. Head on over to amazon to pick up your copy: Skyward Sword w/ Music CD $40
If you’ve been waiting to purchase your copy of Ocarina of Time 3D at a discount price, you can head on over to Amazon and get your copy for $30 ($10 off) w/ free shipping, Ocarina of Time 3D on Amazon.
via Zelda Dungeon
If you have been waiting for the Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Poster set over at Club Nintendo to come back in stock, you can now head on over to Club Nintendo to order your set for 400 coins.
via: Club Nintendo