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Dear Nintendo America, GIVE ME THIS. Nintendo Japan, to close out the 25th anniversary year of The Legend of Zelda, is selling for 3,255 Yen (about $42 USD) this wicked-crazy, heavy-duty, art book filled with concepts, sketches and info. The info is rumored to contain the official time-line of the games, and the history of Hyrule. The Japanese fans can get this baby on December 21st. The rest of us better have good Japanese friends.
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Lookie lookie I painted a pikture of Link! I wanted to paint a pikture from one of my favrit games so I choosed the Gamecube game "The Zelda Wind Awaker". I painted Link on this boat with his sword! The boat can talk! Oh and also the boat is a red lion, but he also was the King of hyrule when he was human, but that was a long time ago before many ages passed and Hyrule got flooded because I don't know why. Oh and also Link visits islands and caves so he can find the pieces of the Tryforse, that is three triangles that combine together to glow gold and help Link to defeat the big guy with the bird who his name is Ganon, not the bird, I don't know his name, but the bird stole Links sister and that's why Link is on an adventure to try and save her.

OH! and Link likes to catch pigs for some reason, he sneaks to them crawling in the grass and then will grab them and hold them above his head, but he wont hurt them, and they oink whenever he takes a step it sounds funny, OH! and also there is this fish guy Link can give food to by dropping the food in the water, and the fish is happy and knows how to paint, so he will paint on Links map to help him find the Tryforse, I don't know how his paint doesn't mess up in the water though, and also Link can Awake the wind by being a music leader with the stick to show wich way it should blow and then it does, and that makes the boat be able to go to other places!

OH! and here is the full size so you can make a wallpaper for your computer! and also I think that maybe there might be more Zelda art this month for the website!

- By Anton. Age 25

Justin Vigil is this months artist, and he brings to you: Okamiden. The guy has been nuts about the game since it came out, and more often than not has it on in his 3DS ruining any chances he has at street passing people! Well, the pup is a cute little guy and makes an adorable replacement for last months hideous Earthworm Jim face staring right at you. It's a good thing we have multiple artists contributing to the site huh? hahaha.

If you think the design is pretty nifty, why not get yourself the wallpaper from the N+ Design Gallery? What do you guys think of Jayvee's fan-art?

I had the opportunity to get a customized iPhone 4 case while at SXSW. So, I took one of my favorite images, the Travis Touchdown wallpaper that Anton made for N+ a few months back. It came out awesome and is printed on a durable soft textured cloth laid in soft vinyl. It's kicky pro.

Check out the original in our N+Design album.
Check out a HQ version to see the cloth detail.

Majora's Mask was an amazing game. From the unique gameplay alone to the theories of virtually everything in the entire game, it's a beloved part of our history. And DeviantArt user KurkoBoltsi is basically the greatest fan of all time, thanks to this beautiful, amazing, greatest thing that I have ever seen. It's a depiction of the final showdown of Majora's Mask, (assuming that the user has gotten the Fierce Deity's Mask,) an intense battle with Majora's Wrath. It is, how I believe, how the battle would actually look, if we were able to turn into a god that was sealed into a mask and fight evil on the moon.

Hit the jump for the thing I want as a tattoo on my chest someday.

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I like October, the entire month for me is Halloween. All the creepy ghosts, goblins, zombies, and other things that go bump in the night. Terrible(ly awesome) slasher flicks come out around this time, and at the very end you can dress up as crazy as you like, and the more insane you are, the better it is! I think about the N+ artwork for halloween constantly through the year, trying to decide on which game to pull the spooks from, and this year I just couldn't decide between Resident Evil and my favorite: Super Mario World, so when push comes to shove you gotta do what any nerdy fan-boy should do, a mash-up!

So here we have Leon investigating the mysterious disappearance of the President's Plumber. It seems he went missing somewhere in Dinosaur Land and Leon is following all the clues. Leon has never dealt with ghosts before... I wonder how well those bullets will work? Wait, do you here something? I think I hear Mario... "Leon, HEEEELP!"

Oh yeah, as always there is a full-sized wallpaper version for your desktop in our N+ art Gallery. So how does everyone like it?

It's really not that impressive, and "25" is nowhere to be seen...but hey, it's Mario! And it's his birthday! Now THAT is something worth celebrating