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A Legend of Zelda edition of Monopoly is set to release on September 15th and is available for preorder on Gamestop for $39.99. The Gamestop edition also includes exclusive items that other retailers will not have. As you can see from the images attached, the set includes quite a bit. Here is a quick rundown of everything included: Houses renamed Deku Sprouts, Hotels renamed Deku Trees Chance and Community Chest cards are renamed Empty Bottle and Treasure Chest Custom Deed Cards Zelda themed money Custom rules including Item Card instructions 11"x17" Hyrule Map Lithograph in Treasure Chest Holder (Game Stop Exclusive) 6 Collectible tokens: Bow Hookshot Boomerang Triforce Hylian Shield Ocarina of Time (Game Stop...

Nintendo announced this morning that a special Hyrule Warriors focused Nintendo Direct will be streamed August 4th at 8PM PDT (11PM EST). Hyrule Warriors being a mashup of two distinct series, Dynasty Warriors and obviously the Legend of Zelda, looks to be cramming in the content as we approach it's release date. Hyrule Warriors is expected to drop on August 14th in Japan, September 26th in the USA, and the week before in European Territories. Are you excited for this game? Site wise, we have done some major changes on the backend and we have finally figured out and fixed the annoying bug that caused the home page to load slower than the rest of the pages on the website. Before, it took roughly 3 seconds to load the home page - now it...

One of the features I've worked on has been streaming video. It has been a long process where I would work off and on for several months on getting it working. It was one of those things where I would work on it, get stuck at some point, and come back to it later with a fresh mind. Streaming the videos isn't too hard, but allowing the user to skip around was quite a challenge. Nevertheless, streaming videos on Zelda Xtreme is now a thing. Right now, we have a selection of mostly retro Zelda videos, from the first Legend of Zelda commercial, but we also have more recent videos such as the Link Between Worlds trailer. We also have beta footage from Ocarina of Time, and the E3 2006 showcase of the Wii. We plan to add more videos over...

Just wanted to give a quick update on what we've been working on this week. We've added back the Articles section where staff members and other users submit their opinions on various gaming subjects. Soon to come in the next GamerCard update is a redesign to the card itself. We are looking at adding at least the Nintendo Wii U NNID's & 3DS Friend Code to the cards which requires the design to be adjusted. We are also playing around with a Steam API for a future update as well. In the meantime, make sure you have this information entered into your profile. We've also made more improvements to the overall performance of the website. Do you notice any differences? Is the site really fast for you, or do you notice slowdowns? Let us know!

The Legend of Zelda has traditionally been a single player series, with the exception of Four Sword Adventures on the GameCube and it's re-releases. No main title in the series has included a multiplayer option. Is that about to change? In a recent Game Informer interview, Eiji Aonuma hinted at the possibility of multiplayer coming to the future Zelda title. The two-player functionality of Hyrule Warriors is actually something that has traditionally been done in the Dynasty Warriors series, but they’ve changed because of the hardware and the second screen on your GamePad. Instead of having a splitscreen on the television, you have one-player playing on the television and one on the GamePad. When I was talking back about making Zelda...

We've updated the GamerCard Generator to version 2.1. This mainly fixes a problem where some users's cards were not updated under certain conditions. We also fixed an issue with the Xbox side of things were sometimes games would not show up when they should. We also changed the Xbox 360 and PS3 icon to be a more generic xbox live and playstation network icons due to the Playstation Vita/Playstation 4/Xbox One now being a factor in these.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eFlDtWn0-64 Zelda Wii U was shown off for the first time today during Nintendo's E3 presentation. Above you can see the trailer for the upcoming, open-world (yes, really!) Zelda. I was surprised to see that they kept the Skyward Sword style of artwork, but it looks amazing nonetheless. What do you think? Arriving in 2015, this looks to be one of the most expansive Zelda yet. We also have a few site updates for you guys! We've completely redone the poll as to make it random on every page you visit. I think this will make it more fun for our users to vote on different subjects without having to wait a week for the new poll to come out. The counter has also been fixed to actually work. Not a major deal for...

Hey resident Xtremers. We've got a few updates for your this month! First off, we are pleased to announce a new hosted site: The Straw Hats! The website is a central hub for their FFXIV Free Company. They have a wide variety of tools at your disposal, and should be looked into especially if you play FFXIV on the Adamantoise server. As far as the Zelda Xtreme website is concerned, we have added over 50 new tracks to our Live Radio per user request. So check it out. :) We've also added a leaderboard to our Gamercards section to show off our most hardcore of users. The level of the gamercard is based off posts and referrers, so get busy and you too may join our top ranks! ;) On a final note, tomorrow is the last day for the majority of...

It was brought to my attention that sometimes, mostly on Internet Explorer, the site would load then switch to a white screen. This was due to a bug in the hit counter and I have replaced it with a home-made script. Sorry for those affected and thanks for those who submitted the bug report!

Back in November, I uploaded a test video of a recording of A Link Between Worlds using at the time a very jerry-rigged setup of a box and a DSLR. The results were okay, but not optimal and not very efficient as I would have to keep the 3DS perfectly still and even then the video quality wasn't the best. Thankfully last week, my wife sent off one of my 3DS to be retrofitted with a video capture device. Below is the video taken from the device. As you can see, a big improvement. http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Hece9JZ140 This will play a big part in my plans going forward with the website. I can't give the full details now as they are still in the testing phase, but I have done some very fiddly tasks on the back-end over the past...

Like a cat with a ball of string, I can't stop fiddling with the layout. I went back on my decision to add drop down menus for some of the items. I felt like this was adding unnecessary bulk to most pages, and at the same time, was not really a feature that is part of what the website's "purpose" is. That being trying to replicate the feel of early Zelda fan sites in the modern Internet age. Trying to balance between having a retro looking website, using the latest standards, and keeping the website performance as best as it can be has been a fun challenge. That said, I'm sure there will be more tweaks in the future. Currently, the drop down menu has remained for the games content, but that will probably change. On the plus side, the...

It's been a long time coming, but here is the continuation of our Wind Waker play-through. In this episode, we start our quest to collect the Triforce shards to defeat Ganon. http://www.youtube.com/embed/2Vy5618ckQI

Who remembers this video from way back in 2005? Shortly before the reveal of the Wii at E3 2005, this video was released claiming to be a leaked copy of Nintendo's new system. Showcasing a virtual reality headset among other features, the Nintendo ON created quite a buzz in the Nintendo fanbase with people believing the video to be real with others skeptic, but hopeful. Even Nintendo itself thought the video was well done. Interestingly the guy who created the Nintendo ON video, Pablo Belmonte, is also the same guy who created the Majora's Mask Wii U video that was released right before E3 2012. Obviously now we all know this was a hoax, but back then it was a really interesting concept and seemed to be inline of what Nintendo was...

We've gone back through the stockpile of requests and have added some requested images to our GamerCard Generator. We've also added some that weren't requested, but are more recent popular titles. We've also fixed some bugs on the script itself, and are still looking into the bug that sometimes makes the images not change correctly when you are choosing your selection. Check back soon for that. We've also added some more tracks to our Live Radio, and some improvements to our mobile website.

We did a major server update this morning that brought the server down for a few hours to make improvements on the backend. For our frequent visitors, you should notice some more speed improvements, particularly on the forums.

Most of you will have noticed, or at least you will have by the time you have read this, that we have made further changes to the site's styling. Gone is the right menu, instead replaced by a dropdown menu for all the former items on the right hand side. Reasons for this change was it made the website look too cluttered, and now I have more freedom in regards to the content section as it is much wider. We also changed the site's font and size to one that is hopefully easily more readable for our users. Let us know what your thoughts are on this font and if you like it more than the one previous. Lastly we fixed a lot of bugs that were from the last site update: The web radio is now showing the correct title of the song while...

Another heads up today for our users. Without much of an announcement, Nintendo has re-released Four Swords Anniversary Edition onto the 3DS eShop and it is completely free. Be fast though, as it will only be free for the next four days. Whether this means it will be removed from the eShop or just won't be free after those four days remains to be seen. Four Swords Anniversary Edition was one of the GBA titles given to early adopters of the 3DS as part of the 3DS Ambassador Program. Does this signal the beginning of GBA games coming to the 3DS? Let's hope.

So apparently some of our posts weren't showing up on our Facebook page unless you were a page manager - even though they were set to public. This was due to a glitch in the application we use and should be fixed now.

Just a heads up that A Link to the Past is releasing today on the Wii U eShop for though of us in North America as our European friends have had access to the game since the beginning of December. The price is $8, but it is reduced to $1.50 if you have already bought the Wii version. Will you Wii U owners be downloading? Speaking of VC games on the Wii U, another interesting tidbit was released last night with Iwata announcing that DS games will be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console. This would mean that the Wii U will be able to play 10 out of the 15 main Zelda titles if, or rather when, the N64 and DS Zelda's are released for the Wii U VC. The obvious exceptions being the Game Boy Zelda titles and the recently released A Link...

It's been about two weeks since the last update, so I better make a post so people know we are still working here! Do be warned, it's about to get a little bit technical. We've been working mostly on improving website performance in regards to speed and load times, as well as search engine optimization and other areas that are important to a user's experience. Some things we have done over the past two weeks: We've changed the Facebook and Twitter buttons to only load when your mouse hover over the icons as they had a pretty big impact on loading times for the website. We removed the flash from the main page due to it being a big no-no in regards to mobile. Also unnecessarily creates CPU load on PC's as well. Removed the Topsites...