Community:Hyrule: Land of the Legend: Difference between revisions

| language = English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish

| webmaster = Martijn Müller (Mighty Dekunut),<br> Tawny Ditmer (TwilightMidna), Baruch van Baalen (RecklessAbandon)

| released = September 2004

| status = Offline

'''Hyrule: Land of the Legend''' is a former award winning website <ref name="ednawards">http://www.explodingdekunut.net/interactive/giamain/mostaspiring2006.html EDN's 2nd Annual Golden Item Awards - Most Aspiring Site</ref>. 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.

Having retired in 2007, as of March 2012, they have registered the domain name landofthelegend.com and are preparing a comeback.

Despite having grown to one of the biggest Legend of Zelda-websites, along with [[Zelda Legends]] and [[Zelda Universe]],<ref name="ednawards"/> 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]].

Hyrule: Land of the Legend joined forces with Hyrule.net's webmaster [[User:Dustin|Dustin]] in early 2005 to host the website under the domain name hyrule.net. Despite a succesfull year, the cooperation was ended in the beginning of 2006 with a bang, due to a disagreement with the site's content management, Mighty Dekunut and RecklessAbadon, and Dustin as the domain name holder. As Dustin only owned the domain name, the website was kept intact and simply moved to a new domain name: landofthelegend.net

One of the fiercest and longest feuds in the Zelda community, was that between Hyrule: Land of the Legend, and [[Mike Damiani|Mike 'TSA' Damiani]]. The feud started after E3 2006, though they had clashed before when Land of the Legend called out TSA on some of his statements that were (later proven to be) incorrect. After E3 2006 though, the rivalry escalated when TSA started accusing Land of the Legend of stealing image content and not crediting him for news items that TSA claimed to be the source of. Land of the Legend denied these accusations and called TSA out on providing false information and lying in regards to a number of issues.

During the controversy, TSA contacted webmasters of some Zelda websites that were associated with both Land of the Legend and The Hylia. TSA threatened to remove links to affiliate websites that would not break their partnership with Land of the Legend, although only few gave in to this threat. The feud went on until Hyrule: Land of the Legend went offline in 2007.

The website's main goal was to offer a professional approach to reporting on [[The Legend of Zelda (Series)|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|exclusive news items]], and with the ''Hylian News Service'' also provided a fast and reliable news service to other game media outlets.

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 occasions, 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.

* 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.[http://www.jeux-france.com/articles_dossiers252_interview-nintendo.html] While they were soon asked to remove this information, Land of the Legend however was allowed by Nintendo to keep the reported information.[http://www.landofthelegend.net/Hyrule/?grab=news&catch=read_more&nid=1341]

* 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.[http://www.landofthelegend.net/Hyrule/?grab=news&catch=read_more&nid=1276][http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63281][http://www.thehylia.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1173668593&archive=&start_from=&ucat=7&]<br>

* At E3 2006, Land of the Legend was the first to report on Miyamoto's statement of the differences between the [[Nintendo Wii|Wii]] and the [[GameCube]] version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

From the very beginning, Hyrule: Land of the Legend was a multi-language website, though it started with only English and Dutch. Soon though, this number grew and in the end the website provided coverage in the English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Finnish language. While not the first Zelda website to do so, they were the first and still only website that offered that many languages, all translated by editors, rather then an automated translator.

Introduced in 2006, the Hyrule Comic was a weekly comic from one of three comic artists at Land of the Legend, but also featured some guest comics. The section also kept track of Zelda appearances in other web comics like VG Cats and Dueling Analogs and had a section where members could send in their screenshot dubs.