For awhile now the mysterious animated clock on a site owned by Marvelous Entertainment, well known for the popular Harvest Moon series, has been “harassing” the Zelda community for quite some time.  Most viewers have noticed the undeniable famous symbol of our beloved series, the Triforce. It is because of this, numerous speculations have arisen out of this confusion. Several posts have been made here on the main page about what this whole mess could really mean. As the clock counts down, more and more Zelda fans have become seduced by its call, even after this post has been made clear, the answer will STILL remain in many minds. “Could this very well establish a new era in the franchise?”

By daring to continue reading, you will learn the truth behind this rumor, the clock does indeed…

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The clock with the Triforce pieces.

As Zelda fans, we often discuss, debate about the series and so on. As fans we can become very excited over news, whether it be a new game annoucement or something such as competitions and the like. In this case, people becoming excited over a possible new game is very much true. On January 14th, 2008, fellow ZU member TourianTourist had discovered a countdown page for a new game on Marvelous Entertainment’s website. As everyone has probably known by now, it depicts a triangle-shaped clock floating above the countdown. The hands on this clock did not point to numbers, but rather pieces of what appears to be the Triforce. A triangle shaped clock, Triforce pieces instead of numbers… the first thing to pop into your mind would probably be a new Zelda title being announced.

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The purported new Zelda game. Yeah, right!

Does the legal-looking picture to the left look familiar to you? With all the press surrounding this nearly year-old patent, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of you in the comments said it was a frame from the next Zelda trailer. But with all the emails both the news staff and I have been getting about this story – and one other, more recent story involving a stopwatch with some Triforce-like symbols on it – I think it’s about at that point where we all took the time to take a deep breath, look at this hype, and come back down to Earth. Rumors are great; since we report news, we generally love to mess with your heads and give you false hope (it’s one of our pastimes, you see), but we can’t bring ourselves to do it with these clearly bogus stories being hyped up by supposedly reputable journalists.

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There is a rumor going around that Nintendo is planning to release the DSi in the month of April of this year. The new DSi is estimated to cost around USD 179.99 and apparently will be released in the first half of this year, sometime around April 4 is the rumored date, according to IGN which cities,”multiple sources close to Nintendo”.

First revealed in October of last year, the DSi features a camera and built-in memory. It’s first debut was in Japan late last year, and it revived the sales of Nintendo’s handheld, that had been losing to Sony’s PSP handheld.

So if you’re wanting to get the DSi, it just might be available in April.

Source: IGN

Colin Sebastian, game analyst for Lazard Capital Market, predicts a new Zelda announcement in 2009 with a release in 2010.

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Tomorrow’s the day, folks. Rumors have been flying around for quite a while about a new fangled DS that should hit shelves, well, sometime soon, and the purported new features span everything from bigger screens to a built-in camera – and at this point, we’re content to just sit back and let the magic unfold. Speculation like this hasn’t been seen since the last Apple keynote.

And, speaking of Apple, this new DS updated is supposedly targeting the iPhone, which has become the ubiquitous convergence device. The DS currently lags behind the iPhone in extendability, ease of software acquisition, and touch screen size, accuracy and capability. If Nintendo is truly going after the iPhone’s remarkable touch screen, they’ll have to pull something big out of their expensive top hats.

Nintendo has already issued a statement neither confirming or denying the existence of this new DS, leaving many fans to assume that the DS will be announced tomorrow. Of course, even if a new DS is announced, there’s no guarantee it will ship immediately, or even before the holiday season, but as Engadget writer Darren Murph pints out, it would be a huge blunder not to release this before Christmas.

I’ll be back tomorrow with some sort of update about Iwata’s announcement – be it a new DS or nothing spectacular at all.

I have been directed towards this page by a friend. Now it is in all Japanese, and sure you can use Google translator, but my same friend translated it for me, and Nintendo fans may be in for a treat. Hit the jump to find out more.

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I know there are a lot of people anticipating this title, but it looks to be on hold for a super secret VC release!

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Hello folks of ZU. Jason was correct in saying I’d be showing up. Now onto some news!

It has been reported that Nintendo has not forgotten about you core gamers, but also to not expect any for a while. Hit the jump (oh lord I always wanted to say that ) to see more!

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With sales of Nintendo DS’s falling in Japan, new rumors are surfacing about a potential new system that may replace the DS as a true successor that could be released at the end of the year for Japan. Right now, even though the DS is booming in other territories, it’s falling in Japan, which could lead to an early launch of this new system to increase profits for Nintendo.

However, these falling sales figures might be less about the DS’s popularity and more about running out of people to sell them to.

An article on the subject can be found here.

Before I begin this article, I would first like to clarify that what I am doing right now is reporting on a rumor. That is to say, like everything else on the Internet, this should be taken with galactic-sized piles of salt. Recently, rumors have been flying all over Zelda forums and Nintendo sites about the possibility of a new Zelda game in the works, according to an alleged interview which took place between Eiji Aonuma, whom many might recall was the director for Twilight Princess and most recently the producer of Phantom Hourglass, and an individual at IGN referring to himself as “Kyle.” The new game, code named “Project Deluge,” is scheduled to be announced at E3 2008 and is slated for a 2009 release date, if the rumor is to be believed. Having given my technical information about the interviewer, the interviewee, and the absolute verification of nothing but the fact that this is but a rumor, let us analyze some of the more interesting details given in the interview.

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Is it true or is it fiction? Recent rumors are surging through the internet about a new Zelda game which will be announced at E3 2008. The presently titled Project Deluge or Valley of the Flood is rumored to be in the works from Nintendo in a recently released interview between Eiji Aonuma and a mysterious individual calling himself “Kyle.” The alleged interview, which originated at IGN’s forums, has not been confirmed to be legitimate but is raising interesting questions about the future of the Zelda series because of the new features in the game.

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