Nintendo brought the E3 demo for Zelda: Spirit Tracks to PAX, and it feels awfully familiar. Players of Phantom Hourglass will recognize the cel-shaded art and the draw-to-interact mechanics (and perhaps the faintest whiff of reheated ideas), but old is boring. The demo notably offered vignettes of a dungeon crawl and a train run.

I normally shy away from plugging blogs lest the site collapse into gaming cultural ephemera, but 1up writer and editor Jeremy Parish has posted a killer Zelda retrospective at gamespite.net. It’s not particularly notable as a look at the game itself, but rather as an insight into how The Legend of Zelda bridged the [...]

Kooloo-Limpah! Steal Tingle’s Magic words
and he’ll cut you!
Image courtesy of 1up

Anyone who ever doubted the wisdom of Nintendo’s friend codes needs to take a look at the latest issue of Famitsu (via 1up). Within, you can see that disturbing fairy wannabe Tingle has returned to darken your doorstep. So lock up your children, [...]