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#rumor French gaming site Le Mag Jeux Video got pictures of what appear to be the official premiums for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D; it includes a wooden (or wood-patterned) pen and a plastic ocarina with the holes identified by their note. I had no idea an ocarina looked like a blue athletic cup. More »

Apparently hearing our lustful cries for more Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D media, the US Nintendo Channel has posted a new trailer for Link's remade adventure. We honestly never thought we'd say this, but that is one fine looking Dodongo.

#rumor When the DS's The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks showed up in bargain bins four months after release, for less than the price of lunch at McDonald's, it was rather embarrassing for Nintendo. Rumor has it the 3DS' Ocarina of Time will get a small shipment to avoid such a fate. More »

Few games on this planet are capable of washing us away in a deluge of nostalgia like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The game's official site recently uploaded the 3DS remake's title screen opening, and ... man, that takes us back. To a simpler time. Like, 1998, to be exact.

#nintendo3ds Why is Nintendo reviving on of the best Nintendo 64 games, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Nintendo 3DS? Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto says he wanted get a better sense of "really 'being there' in 3D" and to give new players a chance to play the Legend of Zelda game he was most deeply involved in. More »

If you needed another reason to acquire the renovated, 3DS version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time -- other than the fact that it's a pretty port of the best game of all time -- this might just win you over. In a video interview with ConservativeNewMedia, a Nintendo of America representative demoing the title at GDC revealed that the cartridge will contain both the original game and the slightly-more-difficult Master Quest.

Check out the video below to see the interview in question, and to see Link just stand around in the Deku Tree for a couple minutes. What are you doing loitering inside of old, sentient trees, dude? You've got Spiritual Stones to collect.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

#3ds Nintendo has confirmed that the Master Quest, a companion to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that features new dungeons and puzzles, will be a part of the game's upcoming release for Nintendo 3DS. More »

#nintendo3ds Nintendo announced at GDC today that it's bringing Netflix streaming movies, 3D movie trailers, and Sega Game Gear and Turbografx games to its Nintendo 3DS. It even announced a new Super Mario game for its 3D handheld! So here are some new screen shots of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. More »

As excited as we are for the arrival of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, this latest batch of screens for the visually renovated title has reminded us of the game's tortuous toll: The Water Temple. So lengthy. So confusing. So, so much boot-swapping!

#video There's so much right with this, it's really hard to find where to start. I guess Boba Fett playing Zelda music in a subway station is as good as place as any. More »

#speakuponkotaku What would you give to relive the greatest moments in your gaming history as if it were the first time? That's the question commenter Taggart451 ponders in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. WARNING: Spoilers ahead. More »

Just as Super Mario 64 DS ushered in the era of the original DS system, it seemed fitting that a 3D-enhanced version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time -- the cherry on top of last June's "E3DS" scoop -- would be the linchpin of the 3DS hardware launch this March. Except, it's not going to happen.

Footnoted in a vague announcement that more than thirty 3DS games would be released between the system's launch and E3 2011 (in early June) was the equally ill-defined update that Zelda: OoT 3D was still "in the works," along with other triple-A Nintendo iterations for the new handheld, including Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Animal Crossing and Star Fox -- not to mention the ballyhooed Kid Icarus comeback, Uprising, which did impress at last week's preview event.

"Mario, Zelda, all of those titles are coming," Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime told MTV Multiplayer. "From our perspective, we like to launch titles when they're ready. And so they'll be ready. They'll be ready soon -- just not in that initial time period of late March to early June." In other words: "after E3."

That leaves Nintendo with a somewhat dubious 3DS launch "window" lineup (we still don't know exact release dates) of first-party titles -- three to be exact: Nintendogs + cats, Pilotwings Resort and Steel Diver. You could make a case for those first two serving strong supporting roles in the hardware launch; and Reggie, off the top of his head, said that the Nintendogs and Pilotwings franchises have combined to sell "tens of millions of copies," despite neither being a particularly prolific sequel bearer.

Steel Diver, on the other hand, is an unknown (it began as a tech demo for the original DS) and stars ... a rather drab submarine. Astutely sensing our apathy for the game, Reggie explained that "from a compelling standpoint, we think it's awfully compelling."

If you're not buying it ... you could just buy Street Fighter IV again.

Nothing does a better job of upgrading a game's graphics than your memory. There's something about the PS1/N64 era of games that makes us remember them better than they actually looked. The 3DS version of Ocarina of Time is unquestionably a better looking game than its predecessor, with new textures, new character models, better lighting, and a new widescreen aspect ratio. So, why does Ocarina of Time still look so dated?

Although Nintendo has updated the visuals of the N64 classic, it hasn't changed enough to shake off the N64 origins -- and the new sheen of paint can't help it compete with the other games that were present at the 3DS preview event, like Resident Evil. The 3D effect also seems relatively muted, even with the toggle set to the maximum settings. Its shortcomings make me realize that I wouldn't mind seeing a more thorough remake, one that truly pushes the 3DS' graphical capabilities.

But for most, Zelda isn't about the visuals, and the gameplay is just as you remember it.

#clips Screenshots are great and all, but sometimes you need to see a game moving to really get a good impression of it. Even when it's shaky-cam footage of a remake of a game that came out in 1998. More »

Link's not the only one getting a three-dimensional facelift for Ocarina of Time 3D -- a few familiar enemies are getting a little added depth as well. Check out Famitsu's new batch of screenshots for the spring 3DS release in the gallery below to see how Gohma and King Dodongo have changed.

As if you needed any more proof that the Japanese public has more carefully manicured hands that you do, the videos we've embedded after the break of folks playing Nintendo's 3DS on Japan's MX TV feature nothing short of the prettiest thumbs we've ever seen. Also, tons of 3DS gameplay (in 2D), so there's that.

Überpopular German tabloid Bild has put its money on "November 11" as the day the 3DS will launch in Japan. The paper also pegs the European launch for next spring, as anticipated, and prices the system at an estimated €200 ($270). Nintendo of Japan is expected to announce the official date and price for its newest handheld this week, on September 29 from Tokyo.

The Bild article [image] also names the 3D version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 3DS and a new Professor Layton game (a.k.a. the Mask of Miracle) as launch titles. While Bild's November date is at least a popular guess (the DS Phat, DSi and DSi XL all launched in Japan that calendar month), predictably, the newspaper has not outed its sources. (A note from Wikipedia: "The journalistic standards of Bild, or the lack thereof, are the subject of frequent criticism by German intellectuals and media observers.")

The 3DS is expected to launch early next year in North America.

If there was one Zelda title that could be called out as the go-to game for being the ‘best series entry’, I think Ocarina of Time would be the winner. Of course, there’s plenty of room for discussion on that one, and no one will ever come to a definitive answer. It’s still [...]