28/08/10

It's almost autumn, where has the summer gone? Paul is learning to drive I can't wait till we buy a car! I'm hoping he'll have passed his test before Christmas, will make things so much easier for both of us. It looks like my old role at work is making a return, not the same way as before but if I'm successful in applying I can go back to assisting with the technical enquiries every now and again instead of just being on the phones all the time. It won't be starting for a few more months yet but I hope I can do it again as it was a lot more interesting than what I do now.

I can't believe North Castle is going into it's 13th year! Wow! We are celebrating in more ways that one as the site also had the honour of winning one of Legend of Zelda.com 's annual Lozzies - specifically 'The Philanthropist: Site with the most community outreach'. So thank you LoZ.com and congrats to the other 8 lucky sites who also received Lozzies this year.

I had so much material this month from submissions I didn't get the chance to add everything up, you'll notice I've updated quite a lot as well as the usual fan work. Now that I've got the Vintage Games Section up to standard I can start work on some other parts of the site and move things around again!

See you all at NC Forums. or if not, see you next month (or on Facebook!).

• Showcased in the gallery this month we have 22 brand new pieces of art! Check out;
  - Art1st4786 (4),
  - Ingie (2),
  - MegaZeldaMan (1),
  - Monkeykaos (1),
  - OniChild (12) and
  - Sailor Lilith_chan (2).
  
  
• Exploring, Link discovers a stalfos he cannot defeat in A Handful of Dust - a great morbid adventure from Shadsie.
  
  
• Joran continues and finishes his Wind Waker inspired adventure Out to Sea with chapters 8-11.
  
  
• Link is dragged into a chaotic battle of Hyrule's final days in A World Cloaked in Shadow from Lyxie.
  
  
• Zelda expresses her feelings to Link in Charity by MegaZeldaMan.
  
  
• Also from MegaZeldaMan is a riddle in the form of a poem The Great Hylian Legend - can you solve it?
  
  
• And finally Link faces Ganondorf in The Final Battle by Kurai Hitokiri.
  
  
• In the arts and crafts gallery we have sweet keyrings and magnets from Bunniebard and cute plushies from eERIEchan .
  
  
• In the cosplay gallery we have 6 new photos from Musica including Marin and LttP Link and 6 photos from Negative Dreamer including Poe Ghosts and Darknut.
  
  
• I've finally put some more material in the Vintage Games Section for Link's Awakening including adverts, easter eggs and downloads.
  
  
• I've added even more concept art for the ZeldAnime Project.
  
  
• In the Humour & Oddities section we have You've Been Playing Too Much Zelda... list from Indigo and Top 10 list from Komali.
  
  
• The last update this month are 3 new interviews in the Fan Focus Section - Blackfeather, OniChild and Zelda F. Barrow.
  
  
  
  

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