For those of you waiting patiently for part 4 of our Spirit Tracks walkthrough, it is here! Thank you to Sword of Faith for working hard and getting this walkthrough done for us. The journey through Spirit Tracks becomes even more interesting here, and hopefully as it progresses, will only continue to become even better!

In related news, the groups over at our forums have been terminated in the last couple of weeks. However, this news does not mean anything negative for the impact on our forum community: users are as active and excited as ever. Why don’t you come on over and join in our fun? The links for the forum can be found at the end of this post, or at the top of the page. From talking about what we think the best Zelda game is to our favorite kind of pizza, at the forums you can talk about anything. Be sure to join to keep up with the latest here at LoZ!

I just read a wonderful article over at the Escapist Magazine website. Apparantly the people who developed the Natal hardware pitched to Nintendo a few years ago, and whilst they were impressed they turned it down because of price point. I think the best point this article makes is pointing out the SNES-CD to Playstation incident. For those of you who don’t know Nintendo once had a deal with Sony to produce a CD add-on for the SNES. The problem here was when Nintendo reviewed the contract they realised that Sony would practically control all titles developed for the SNES CD-ROM. As a result they cancelled the plans with Sony and allied themselves with Phillips (Hence the birth of the CD-i).

So the question is although Nintendo have been good to consider price point for the consumers, have they let go of a potentially big investment by letting go of Natal?

Source: Escapist Magazine

Many years ago on one of my  many trips to Hong Kong I went to a maritime museum in Macau as part of a short excursion. I took some photographs of models over there and one of the ships that caught my eye had a familiar symbol on it. Upon closer inspection it was none other than our favourite gaming series most important symbol, the Triforce. Unfortunately I think that photo was lost in my old hard drive (R.I.P). So I did a little fishing around when I remembered that to try and find out the significance of this. I have found out that the symbol is in fact a ‘mon’ which is our equivalent of a family crest. The Triforce belongs to the Hojo family which had a huge clan in Japan. This clan was so influential you can see them in various areas of media, fans of Final Fantasy VII may remember a certain Professor Hojo.

Hojo's mon

Nearly every console line worth it’s salt has a budget line. Sony has the Platinum range (Greatest Hits in the US) and Microsoft has the Platinum Hits range (formerly Greatest Hits). But what about Nintendo? Meet the Everyone’s Recommendation Selection! [read the full story]

Our friends over at ZeldaInformer have put up some POTENTIAL leaks concerning Zelda Wii, which is said to come out later this year. They credit these leaks to a Japanese site called 2chan (related to 4chan, probably) where rumors have often come true before, as ZeldaInformer will tell you. [read the full story]

As seen on Destructoid.

I gotta tell you, folks, while you’re gonna have to look a long way for reason here, it’s guaranteed to make some of you chuckle. Hell, maybe you’re even gonna find a nugget of truth in there. [read the full story]

As seen on Kotaku as seen on Tiny Cartridge.

Credit goes to the respective sites and the artist. Now ain’t that somethin’ funny or WHAT?

The GO Awards Show is now online! Congrats to all the winners and enjoy the show!

Podcast: Download (36.7MB)

The NPD Group have released the console sales figures for December 09. Surprise, surprise, Nintendo tops the charts. [read the full story]

As reported by both Yahoo and Kotaku, the Wii is the third and final console that will see the addition of Netflix, and this will occur sometime in the spring. Maybe this will put a hole in all the persistent Wii-HD-for-2010 theories.

Meanwhile, the DSi XL has been given a European release date, which is March 5th.