Hasta La Gadget!

It was not too long ago when we reported that The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD has been confirmed to arrive for the Wii U platform from Nintendo, and also had the pleasure of checking out a trailer of the game, but as the adage goes, “the early bird catches the worm.” You might have missed the proverbial “worm” here (which would be the trailer, of course) as the trailer has already been pulled down from YouTube. Could it be because it was released before the intended time?

This is not the first time that a particular video has hit YouTube earlier than expected, only to have it pulled down afterwards. We have no idea as to why that happened – it could be a miscommunication on the part of the folks in the company, or perhaps it is someone with access to sensitive material and who decided to do something cheeky about it. Having said that, even if the trailer of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD for the Wii U has been taken down, it has already been confirmed, so you can bet your bottom dollar that plenty of fanboys have every intention of picking a copy for themselves when it arrives.

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Illustrator Elizabeth Sherry likes to make classical-style art based on videogame characters. No, not 8-bit. She went way more old school than that. Her digital paintings even have cracks and creases on them to make them look really old.

The one above is my favorite, but her Mario still life is a close second.

Elizabeth said she’ll be selling prints of her artwork at the Toronto Fan Expo, but she’s also accepting orders online. Head to her blog or her deviantART page to contact her and check out her other artwork.

[via Gamefreaks]

A die-hard Legend of Zelda fan saw the wisdom in using the power of 3D printing to bring the game’s items to life. He also has the courage to sell the items despite the looming threat of Nintendo’s octorok lawyers. He calls his endeavor the Hyrule Foundry. I like to call it the Nintendo 3DP.

The potions are still being finalized and the arrows are in the wrong color, but otherwise the Hyrule Foundry features all 32 items from the classic adventure game, from the Wooden Sword to the Ladder to the Book of Magic. A bonus consequence of the Hyrule Foundry is that we now have an exchange rate for Rupees. One Rupee is $12 (USD). But for some reason two Rupees are worth $18. Hmmm. Hylian math is weird.

You can read more about the Hyrule Foundry on its official blog. If you can’t go alone without these items any longer, you can buy them at the Hyrule Foundry shop on Shapeways. They’re quite expensive though – the cheapest one is $4 for two arrows; the entire set sells for $320(USD).

[via Kotaku]

For several years now, it seems Nicholas Cage has been in every movie possible, or at least has attempted to be somewhat included in nearly every film. Because of that, the internet has decided putting his face on pretty much anything and everything should be a thing, the results of which will probably terrify you and make you wish you could have the power to unsee things. This might be one of those times.

YouTube user Criken created a video called “The Legend of Cage: Beneath the Mask” and what it highlights is a texture mod that replaces characters and pretty much anything else’s face in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask with Nicholas Cage’s face. As we warned you earlier, this video is 13 minutes of just complete and utter weirdness. (more…)

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I’m not sure, but the reason why most early video games had coins or gems for currency was because of graphical limitations. It’s easier to present a recognizable coin than paper money. But if Link was real I’m sure he’d rather have these neat banknotes instead of Rupees. Especially if one of them has a drawing of him on it.

These lovely bills were made by deviantART member G33k1nd159153, who says that he makes stuff for fun and incidentally would like to “get paid to have that kind of fun someday.”

Well G33k1nd159153, perhaps your fake money will be your ticket to getting real money. Your link to the bank, so to speak. Sorry. Check out G33k1nd159153′s deviantART page to see the images in high resolution.

[via Sprite Stitch]