Nathan, our good buddy over at arch-rival site ZeldaInformer, has posted a detailed article reiterating everything we’ve learned so far about Nintendo’s upcoming Zelda game for Wii. If you need a good refresher about what’s coming to the Zelda world in the future, check out his article. Think of it like a TV show episode that does nothing but recap the whole season.

A flurry of quotes have been circulated from Miyamoto’s recent roundtable in New York City, where’s he’s discussed everything from Wii Fit to New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Miyamoto also managed to find the time to sneak in a passage about upcoming Zelda titles when talking about New Super Mario Bros. Wii’s Super Guide feature (bolding is ours):

Miyamoto feels this is an inspirational tool of sorts for players. “I feel guilty when the Super Guide block appears,” he said. “I feel inspired to finish the level on my own.” New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the first game to include Super Guide, but it’s possible that future Wii titles could include it too. Each title will be evaluated individually, but something like this in a new Zelda could “open Pandora’s box,” he said, because it’s hard to decide how much of a puzzle solution should be revealed.

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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).

Just when you thought you saw everything, this came along.  A person posted a thread on a site called Craftster showcasing a present they had recently knitted for a friend’s baby shower: A complete Link costume for their upcoming bundle of joy.  Jump inside for images.

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