Community:Hyrule: Land of the Legend

Hyrule: Land of the Legend is a former award winning website that is currently offline. They were most notable for their exclusive news reports and the fact the site was available in 8 different languages, along with a number of rarer website features like comics, sheet music and fan movies.

Founding (2004)
Land of the Legend started in 2004 as a zelda website under the domain name Hyrule.nl, but it already caried the name Hyrule: Land of the Legend. Mighty Dekunut founded the website because he was unsatified with the "lack of good news service in the Zelda community. I feel like I need to visit 3 or 4 sites to really be able to follow all the Zelda news".

Hyrule.net (2005)
Early in 2005, Mighty Dekunut came to an agreement with Dustin to coorporate and run the website on the domain name Hyrule.net. Leading up to the E3 in May, Hyrule.net already regained some of its former fame by the new site team's professional approach to news reporting, but it was the exclusive reports from the 2005 E3 that really got things going.

Land of the Legend.net (2006)
Despite having grown to one of the biggest Legend of Zelda-websites, along with Zelda Legends and Zelda Universe, a conflict between the webmasters of Land of the Legend, and host Dustin caused a split of the website with the domain name hyrule.net, and the website was moved to the domain landofthelegend.net, but kept the name Hyrule: Land of the Legend. It had little effect on the website though, and they continued to grow, with another peak at E3 2006, where The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was playable for the first time on the Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was shown, and the announcement of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

The end of an era
In early 2007, after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, and the lack of a new Zelda-game announcement and with that activity in the Zelda community, Hyrule: Land of the Legend decided to close their services.

News reports
The website's main goal was to offer a professional approach to reporting on The Legend of Zelda-games, with fast and reliable news posts on anything related to the games or the community. In it's history, the website gained fame for several Exclusive news items, and with the Hylian News Service also provided a fast and reliable news service to other game media outlets.

Hylian News Service
The Hylian News Service was an exclusive e-mail service that Hyrule: Land of the Legend offered to several other media outlets, among which Kotaku, Eurogamer and the Advanced Media Network. It offered a fast and reliable newsletter, and helped other outlets with images and such. On several occassions, both with exclusive news items and with more regular ones as well, Hyrule: Land of the Legend was credited as source by media outlets like Kotaku, Eurogamer, the dutch Power Unlimited magazine, the German GamePro magazine and the official Dutch Nintendo magazine N-Gamer.

Exclusive news items

 * At E3 2005, Land of the Legend debunked a rumour by IGN that there would be flying transportation in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, alike the ground transportation of the horse Epona. A rumour IGN held until the release of the game in November 2006, a rumour debunked by Land of the Legend for all that time. Land of the Legend was proven correct when the game released, and flying transportation was limited to one single path.
 * Jeux-France initially confirmed Wii functionalities of Twilight Princess in an interview with Nintendo of France. While they were soon asked to remove this information, Land of the Legend however was allowed by Nintendo to keep the reported information.
 * When Shigeru Miyamoto officially confirmed Wii functionality for Twilight Princess, Land of the Legend reported the team was firstly testing the bow and arrow controls, something later confirmed at the 2007 Game Developers Conference.
 * At E3 2006, Land of the Legend was the first to report on Miyamoto's statement of the differences between the Wii and the GameCube version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
 * After the press conference of E3 2006, a statement by Reggie Fils-Aime had caused confusion by many press entities, who took it that a GameCube version of Twilight Princess would possibly only be released in North America. Land of the Legend was the first to confirm a release of the GameCube-version for Europe.