Is your desktop feeling lonely? Did the last batch of fan wallpapers not satisfy you? Well, Kris Hickey is here to cure your woes. He’s just submitted a beautiful wallpaper set of his own artwork depicting Link running through a dungeon – created entirely in colored pencil. It comes in most every resolution imaginable, so don’t hold back – just get to downloadin’.

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You can find Kris’s and other Zelda wallpapers on Zelda Universe’s wallpapers page.

If there’s one thing the Zelda series isn’t short of, it’s typography and fonts. With that in mind, we’ve gathered up a bunch of fonts related to Zelda and Nintendo and put them up for download. You’re probably familiar with a good deal of these fonts, but we hope we’ve found one or two that will surprise you.

Each font has a complete description and a waterfall-style preview. If you’re not sure how to install fonts, there are simple instructions on the page. We hope you enjoy the fonts collection and, as always, if you think we’re missing anything just let us know! For future reference, the Typography and Fonts page is on the left sidebar under Media.

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If you’re currently using Internet Explorer 6, I have some bad news to drop on you. If you’re not using the infamous browser, you can sit back and enjoy the news.

As of yesterday, Zelda Universe has officially dropped all support for IE6. This means that as we add features to the site and forums, as we refine the code to make the site and forums faster, and as we create new pages and guides for new Zelda games (like our Spirit Tracks section), we will not be checking to make sure that they “work” in Internet Explorer 6.

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Every so often, some very generous Zelda fan walks our way. Today, that person is Anna, who a while back donated to us her full-length original soundtrack to Link’s Awakening. Seeing as Zelda Universe’s selection of tracks for Link’s Awakening was, well, let’s say “less than stellar”, you can imagine we were overjoyed to finally revitalize the LA soundtrack page.

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Last month, we needed to put up a new poll, so we asked the fans of our Facebook page what the poll should be about, and they responded with the idea, “you should poll them on what the next poll should be about!” We did this, and now a winner has been decided.

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The fantastic graphic artist and forum member, super-fergus, has submitted two of his creations to ZU’s extensive Zelda wallpaper gallery. Take just one look at either of these beauties and you’ll want them parading your desktop immediately.

You can download super-fegus’s wallpapers below, or you can visit ZU’s Wallpapers section for more Zelda wallpapers. If you want to submit your own fan wallpaper to ZU, just contact us with a link to your wallpaper!

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	Fan Wallpaper Balloon Submitted by super-fergus 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200 1440 x 900

Good news, everyone! Always wanted to help ZU out in your own, special way, but could never figure out just how to do it? We’re here with the answer. You see, Zelda Universe has been entered in American Express’s Shine A Light contest – a contest that highlights small businesses (like ZU). The prize is a whopping $100,000 in marketing rupees. I mean dollars.

We can all close our eyes and imagine what wonderful things could happen if Zelda Universe had $100,000 to push towards marketing. Women would swoon over us, men would become jealous and enraged, and Nintendo would actually pay attention when we ask for review copies of Phantom Hourglass. The world would become topsy-turvey indeed – so we need everyone who’s anyone in the Zelda Universe community (heck, the Zelda community) to vote for ZU in this contest. ZU needs at least fifty votes to be formally nominated, and one can only assume that the more votes the merrier. With Zelda Universe’s vibrant community, fifty votes should be no problem – so let’s blast by the other entries and bring ZU to the top.

We can do it – with the internet, we cannot fail. By your powers combined, ZU shall have a marketing budget!

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(By the way, votes only go up until September 13th, and you must be registered with Shine A Light to vote – don’t worry, it’s free. So please vote by September 13th!)

For the benefit of our newly-arrived forum brethren, I’d just thought I’d quickly remind everyone of our official ZU Facebook page, Twitter, and RSS feed.

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After what feels like eons in development, the first version of a news “ticker” is now up and running on the ZU forums (so forum goers, click and read more!). That means even if you’re a ZUer who spends all his/her time on the forums, you can get your Zelda news without even having to visit the main site! Whether you’re reading this from the forums or from ZU’s front page, read on for a little more information.

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If you’ve been keeping up with the Zelda community for a while, you should know Zelda Dimension. One of the more well-known Zelda sites, it won the Golden Light Arrow award for its outstanding community in 2008. Unfortunately, corruption in the database caused the site to lose its data, and it had to shut down during March of 2008.

Well, if you were a member of that community, good news for you – Zelda Dimension Webmaster Henry has just reopened the site in the form of Destination Zelda, and the new site has joined our list of affiliates. Good luck to them!

UPDATE: The forums are back up and in full swing. Get back to posting, everyone!

Due to a pretty nasty bug that arose late this afternoon, we have been forced to restore the ZU forums to their state from this morning. We deeply apologize for this – we tried everything we could in a short time frame to fix the error, but after hours of work it became clear that a restore was the best option.

For those of you who made posts today, those posts will certainly be lost. However, I will be working on the boards to see if there is anything I can recover individually, for those of you who may have made very important or long posts (such as those of you on the RP boards). However, please appreciate that we make daily backups for just this kind of situation – in any other disaster, on any other site, it could have been a week’s or a month’s worth of posts lost.

Once again, we deeply apologize for the downtime. This should not happen ever again – but, forbidding all else, we’ll always keep running our backups just in case. The restore should be entirely complete within the next few hours. Until then, the boards have been shut down (as they don’t work anyway).

Zelda Universe recently gained more recognition for it’s wonderful content.  From the wonderful people over at LegendofZelda.com, the Lozzies are their version of Zelda awards given out to the best of the best Zelda sites on the net.

They handed out two today, the first being the Strategy Geek given to the site with the best walkthroughs and strategy guides.  Zelda Dungeon won those honors with their very precise walkthroughs and guides.

Zelda Universe on the other hand won the award entitled The Virtuoso.  It is an award given for the best media content, which Zelda Universe prides itself on.

You can check out everything they had to say about us and Zelda Dungeon at this link. These two awards are just two of six, so check them out tomorrow for more awards.

That’s all I have for now.

It has come to our attention that our list of affiliated sites  has gotten a bit long, so we have split the other Zelda fansites from the more general sites, so that you can find the type of site that you are looking for more easily.

On a similar note, our affiliate VGRC has changed its name to the Zangaroa blog, and has moved away from gaming about towards more general subjects.

Just here to post a mailbag, answering the questions of the masses.

I have no real fun way to post the mailbag this week, so I will just post it.  You can view the mailbag here.  In it, I answer questions about the Wii Zelda, the Timeline, other misc. questions.

Please send some more questions so that I can answer them.  It can be anything Zelda or Nintendo, and I will do my best to answer it.

That’s all I have for now.

I must say, I surprise myself sometimes.  I have added another mailbag to the site, answering all those wonderful questions you sent to me.  Questions ranging from the Wii Zelda game that was announced, the timeline, and the interactive story.

You can view the mailbag here, and you can send some more questions here.

It’s not much of an update, but that’s all I have.  Until next time, enjoy the mailbag.