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Take to the skies in the flying section of Skyward Sword as seen in this gameplay from the floor of E3 2011!

Practice makes perfect in this balancing gameplay from E3 2011.

That sword, it is skyward.

That sword, it is skyward.

The Demon Lord Ghirahim highlights this gameplay from E3 2011!

What the *crag* is up with his face?

Story details revealed by Nate Bihldorff in an interview with Daniel Kayser, part of All Access Live!

Shigeru Miyamoto announces the 25th anniversary celebration of The Legend of Zelda at E3 2011!

A live orchestra provides the score for 25 years of The Legend of Zelda!

Taking to the stage at Nintendo's E3 keynote at the Nokia theater in Los Angeles, Shigeru Miyamoto announced that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword will arrive on Wii during Holiday 2011. This represents a new release window for the MotionPlus-enabled adventure, which was pushed back until after the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.

Shigeru Miyamoto has announced that to celebrate the 25th anniversary for The Legend of Zelda, a series of concerts will be held across the country. These live symphonies will also produce a soundtrack, available to anyone who picks up The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and registers with Club Nintendo, free of charge.

Throughout May, IGN is taking a look at games set to appear at E3 2011, from June 6-9. We'll let you know what to expect and what we hope to learn about these games at this year's show. Will Super Mario 3DS be playable? What will Nintendo reveal about its next console? We'll answer as best we can am...

With E3 2011 only a few short weeks away, and more information about The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword no doubt on its way from Nintendo's press conference, we're taking this opportunity to evaluate everything we know about the next big Zelda game. Based on the trailers we've seen at E3 2010 and GDC 2011, we've pieced together some hints as to what the trailers confirm will be in the game, what we're pretty certain will be, and a few of our own wild guesses...

A familiar tune reveals itself as the GDC 2011 trailer is played backwards!

Here's something for all the Zelda continuity conspiracy theorists. FPAwesome was reversing the sound on YouTube videos one day, as we all do when bored, and discovered a big secret in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's GDC 2011 trailer. The background music, which sounds at first like a totally original composition, is actually "Zelda's Lullaby" in reverse! GoNintendo extracted just the audio, which you can hear after the break.

Is it a clue about the storyline of Skyward Sword, or is it the work of a playful composer? That's another one for the conspiracy theorists, as is the possibility that the back-masked music is a form of mind control.

#odnetnin Did you catch the latest trailer for Wii adventure The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword that debuted at this year's Game Developers Conference? Did you catch the hidden secret of the trailer's theme song? If not, watch this video. You might just be amazed. More »

The flood gates have opened. Almost as if by design, rumors about Nintendo's Wii successor (also known by its codename, Project Cafe) are pouring across the Internet. Some we've confirmed through our various sources. Some seem as grounded and reliable as the often-hyped, nebulous "Megaton" concept that returned again and again during the GameCube era, never amounting to anything...

Are you looking for a quick-and-easy storage solution for the adventure-ready knick-knacks you've got laying around the house? Oh, sure, you could probably just tuck that slingshot, Deku stick and empty bottle into any old Rubbermaid tub, but if you're looking for a more authentic way to put things into other things you need a real-life Legend of Zelda treasure chest, complete with brief musical interlude. (You know the one.)

You can follow the instructions posted on Instructables to make your own Hylian lockbox, and check out the video after the jump to see (and hear!) it in action. Just be sure that you make everything to scale -- if you make the chest too large, you're going to have to put something way more awesome in it.

Speaking to IGN on the current state of the Wii -- which has seen few first party releases lately -- Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime admitted that the company has "pushed out some Wii launches so that [Nintendo] could focus on our handheld business." Fils-Aime was referring to the launches of Pokemon Black/White and the 3DS, saying that Nintendo is "already juggling two big balls" and that adding more to the company's plate would have proven "a little bit challenging."

Fils-Aime reassured Wii owners that "there's content coming, and we'll be sharing more, certainly, in the weeks ahead." He added that there will be new content released before E3 and that there will be "more news" revealed at the expo this June.

Finally, Fils-Aime teased The Legend of Zelda's impending 25th anniversary, which was briefly mentioned by Satoru Iwata during Nintendo's GDC keynote earlier this month. "All I can tell you," said Fils-Aime, "is that it will be different than what we did for Mario, and it will be just as special." If it's anything other than free ocarinas, we'll be disappointed.

Well, now we have a better idea of when to not expect The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword to release. Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed that we’ll be getting more news on the game at this year’s E3. That means we’re not going to see the game release before then. I’m thinking The Legend [...]

Nintendo Wii fans got a huge game last May in the form of Super Mario Galaxy 2, but chances for an imminent release of the next Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, dimmed when Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku today that we'd find out more about the game at E3. The E3 gaming event happens June 7-9 this year. If Zelda news is part of that event, the game's coming out afterward. It has no official release date. More »

#gdc The Kotaku crew is hip-deep in the 2011 Game Developers Conference, bringing you the latest news, newest games, and anything else we can drag kicking and screaming out of one of gaming's biggest annual events. More »

We wish we could tell you more than that.

A new character is revealed along with a glimpse into the combat and puzzle mechanics of Skyward Sword from the Nintendo Press Conference at GDC 2011!

#video During his presentation at the Game Developers Conference, the president of Nintendo gave us another look at The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Wii. More »

If you've been following along with Satoru Iwata's GDC keynote, you'll know that he showed some new gameplay footage from Skyward Sword. And, here's your chance to see it again.

Zelda is 25, and we talk about what we love about the series.