Archive for the 'Zelda' Tag
November 20th, 2009, 10:48 am by Jayson Peters
Chandler is the only Arizona city to host the Nintendo Holiday Mall Experience, an interactive event running Nov. 23 through Dec. 20 that lets shoppers take some of the newest video game titles for a spin.
Starting Monday in the Sears Court at Chandler Fashion Center, you’ll be able to try Wii games like New Super Mario Bros Wii and Wii Fit Plus and DS games such as Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, which releases Dec. 7.
Read on for a full description of the event and a list of all 35 U.S. shopping malls that are participating. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 6th, 2009, 7:24 am by Jayson Peters
 In the popular Legend of Zelda video game series from Nintendo, Princess Zelda has always been some variation of the typical damsel in distress, and young hero Link has always been her savior.
That’s all about to change in the new entry for the DS and DSi handheld systems. Zelda is coming out of the dungeon and joining the adventure for the first time.
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Posted in: Gaming • Nintendo • DS • DSi • Zelda | 2 Comments »
June 2nd, 2009, 1:21 pm by Jayson Peters
Nintendo is sticking with its strengths in its E3 revelations. No surprise there.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii takes its look from the Nintendo Ds game New Super Mario Bros., but it promises to haul the flagship franchise into the multiplayer age by Christmas.
Oh yeah … Super Mario Galaxy 2 is coming next year, too.
Metroid: Other M, due out in 2010, will explore the backstory of heroine Samus Aran.
 Wii MotionPlus, Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus, we knew about. The Wii Vitality Sensor (right) will let you gauge whether you still have a pulse.
Announced for Nintendo DS and DSi:
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!
- Facebook photo integration for DSi
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
- Golden Sun DS
- WarioWare D.I.Y.
Read Nintendo’s summary of its major announcements on the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: E3 • Gaming • Nintendo • DS • DSi • Final Fantasy • Mario • Metroid • Pokemon • Wii • Zelda | Post a Comment »
March 25th, 2009, 6:16 pm by Jayson Peters
 There’s a lot of Nintendo news today out of this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, including a new Zelda game for the DS and the long-awaited “storage solution” for Wii owners running out of space after downloading all those cool Virtual Console and WiiWare titles.
From the horse’s mouth:
NINTENDO PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES Wii STORAGE SOLUTION, NEW ZELDA GAME AND 50 MILLION GLOBAL Wii SHIPMENT
Keynote Details Nintendo DSi News on Eve of Launch
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 2009 - Nintendo President Satoru Iwata today revealed surprises for consumers and an expanded palette of video game development opportunities for the industry during his keynote address at the Game Developers Conference. Iwata announced a new storage solution for Nintendo’s WiiTM home console and showed video highlights of a new Nintendo DSTM game from The Legend of ZeldaTM franchise. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 8th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters
The folks who worked with Watchmen director Zack Snyder to design the film’s gorgeous opening title sequence have graciously put the entire thing online for you to see at http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/watchmen/opening-title-sequence
Apparently, it was not quite as legal as I was led to believe. The video has been removed “either temporarily or permanently.” I can guess which.
 At 04:35, in the lower left corner of the background, you can check out J.R. Killigrew as David Bowie. Recently I interviewed Killigrew about the “surreal” experience of working on Watchmen. The actor also played Link in an April Fool’s Day 2008 trailer for a fictitious movie based on The Legend of Zelda.
Killigrew will be in the Valley to show Manos Partidas, a short film he wrote, produced, directed and stars in, at the Phoenix Film Festival April 2-9 at the Harkins Scottsdale 101. The showtimes are 6:15 p.m. Friday, April 3, and 1:45 p.m. Saturday, April 4, with both screenings in Auditorium 3.
READ THE INTERVIEW.
Via io9
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February 22nd, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters
Note to readers: Nerdvana presents an interview with J.R. Killigrew, the actor who plays David Bowie in a brief but key scene in the upcoming feature film based on the graphic novel “Watchmen.”
Part of the Watchmen mystique is that it’s set in a world of superheroes, but also in the world as we know it — gritty, real and obsessed with celebrity. The existence of costumed crimefighters has changed the outcome of some events (like the Vietnam War), but by and large the Earth they inhabit is rather depressingly like our own.
Familiar faces you can expect to see mingling with the likes of superhero Ozymandias and crew when Watchmen debuts March 6 include the Village People, Mick Jagger and David Bowie in a scene set in 1977 at Studio 54. The party has no counterpart in the graphic novel, but it’s used in the opening of the film to mesh the real world with the Watchmen world, according to director Zack Snyder in an interview late last year with MTV Movie News.
Bowie (whose name was once attached to rumors of a Watchmen opera) is played here by J.R. Killigrew, who sums up the experience with one word:
 J.R. Killigrew, left, as David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust in WATCHMEN “SURREAL.”
“I had got a call from my manager on a Tuesday afternoon saying I had to be at Warner Bros. in Burbank by 4 p.m. and I was up for the role of Ziggy Stardust in the new film Watchmen. So I rushed home, checked my e-mail and saw the breakdown (casting notice) and it didn’t say much except for ‘Ziggy Stardust — please use picture as reference.’ I then found some old pics of David Bowie as Ziggy and watched the music video for Life on Mars and decided to go all out and dress up in a similar fashion. I hustled over to the thrift store and pieced together the best version I could find, along with some blue eye paint and blush and drove over to Warner’s. It was funny when I pulled up to the gate and the security guard did a double take then laughed and said ‘Watchmen.’ After that I walked into the casting office and the assistants got a kick out of my dedication and so did the casting director. They called my manager two days later and I was off to Vancouver in early December 2007 for about five days.”
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Posted in: Movies • Watchmen • David Bowie • J.R. Killigrew • Zelda | 1 Comment »
April 8th, 2008, 8:00 am by Jayson Peters
The Wii is getting a lot of use around my house, and never more since we discovered Link’s Crossbow Training. The game, which comes bundled with the Wii Zapper attachment, is short but sweet, and it’s full of old-school, arcade shooter action.
The Zapper was a Christmas present in our house, but it took almost two months for it to get opened and put to its proper use. First by my wife and 13-year-old son, then by my 3-year-old and finally, I’m sad to say, by me. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 4th, 2008, 11:42 am by Jayson Peters
Many gamers got excited about three days ago when gaming supersite IGN debuted a trailer for a movie based on Nintendo’s classic adventure RPG franchise The Legend of Zelda.
Here IGN comes clean about the production as an elaborate hoax. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in: Gaming • Movies • Nintendo • Zelda | 13 Comments »
October 10th, 2007, 2:51 pm by Jayson Peters
If you have the new Nintendo DS game The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Nintendo wants to give you a gift for your opinion. Just head over to register your copy of the game and you’ll pick up a free Nintendo DS Feather Pen Stylus. It doesn’t do anything special, but it’s cool and it’s FREE! (You will need to create a My Nintendo account if you don’t already have one.)
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September 11th, 2007, 12:22 am by Jayson Peters
Nintendo has announced that its Wii Zapper accessory will be released Nov. 19 for $19.99 - AND it comes bundled with a “Link’s Crossbow Training” game disc! Associated Press File PhotoAccording to Nintendo: “The software is based on the hugely popular Legend of Zelda series and provides a perfect demonstration of the way the Wii Zapper could be used in other games. The Wii Zapper casing houses both the motion-sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers in a single unit for precision targeting.”The press release continues: ” ‘Link’s Crossbow Training’ drops players into a world in the style of ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.’ Players assume the identity of hero Link, who progresses through a series of tests to perfect his crossbow marksmanship. Start with stationary bull’s-eyes and graduate to moving targets before defending Link against all kinds of enemies.”The upcoming Wii title “Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles,” available in November from Capcom, will also utilize the Wii Zapper.
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