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| Launching just before E3 2010, the site immediately received quite a boost in visitors. With Skyward Sword being revealed, more visitors flooded in and the boost remained consistent throughout the summer and into the fall and winter, where as of February 2011, the site received its highest consistent viewership in site history, reaching an audience of over 30,000 viewers each and every day.
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| | | Zelda Dungeon reached new heights during this layout with the lead-up to the release of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]''. The site returned to becoming an all-encompassing website, with daily news, editorials, and media content being added, to supplement the game walkthroughs. The period launched Zelda Dungeon into becoming one of the ''Big 3'' in the online Zelda community, alongside [[Zelda Universe]] and [[Zelda Informer]], where there was fierce website competition over content. In the middle of 2011, there was litigation between Zelda Dungeon and its web-host, over the domain name ZeldaDungeon.net, and at one point the website was planning on moving to a new domain. The parties settled and Zelda Dungeon gained full autonomy over all aspects of its site in October of 2011. |
| During this time period, Zelda Dungeon reemphasized the importance of having daily updates, with at least one update occurring every single day from July 4th, 2010, all the way through February of 2011. The daily updates started taking on a more formal approach. While news updates were made whenever interesting material was released, the Curiosity Shop started having a set release every Wednesday. Additionally, in late fall of 2010, Zelda Dungeon started weekly Fan Music updates each Thursday of the week. At the start of 2011, Tuesdays began being the day of weekly Fan Artwork updates, supplanting the monthly North Castle updates that had been gone for a year. Another weekly feature was the Article Friday's days at Zelda Dungeon. While they started in the summer of 2010, they really took hold in fall, with a new article appearing almost single Friday from September through the present day. A few other, minor reoccurring updates included the bi-weekly featured forum thread occurring every other Monday and monthly community forum competitions. In early 2011, another weekly feature launched entitled Mas' Zelda Collection, in which Mases would showcase a particular item in his Zelda collection each Sunday.
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| The time period also marked the rapid expansion into the social media. While the Zelda Dungeon YouTube channel launched all the way back in early 2007, it took quite awhile for it to finally stand on its own. At its third year online, it reached 6,000 subscribers, but in its next calendar year it blossomed to over 13,000 subscribers. Similarly, the Facebook account, which had just over 2,000 likes at the launch of the layout, even after being online for over a year, quickly jumped up to 8,000 likes in the next 8 months.
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| In later 2010, site also started Z-Talk, the Zelda Dungeon Podcast. Run by new staff members Din and Rishian, the monthly podcast featured Zelda discussion by the hosts, as well as roundtables, theories, special guests, and even podcast games. The monthly podcast usually pops up during the last week of each month, as well as occasional special editions of the podcast.
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| Website streams returned after a bit of a hiatus in the last year. A July 4th Mini-Marathon was held, lasting 12 hours and including playthroughs of the first four Zelda titles. To celebrate the site 9th birthday, a Wand of Gamelon stream was held. Later in the year there were streams for Majora's Mask, Faces of Evil, and a New Years Day 12.5 hour stream of Zelda's Adventure.
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| Also in late 2010 launched the game month's special. Started in October of 2010, celebrating the 10th year anniversary of Majora's Mask, the whole month was dedicated to the game, including adding new media, articles, revamping the guide content, and a few other miscellaneous features. Future game months have already been planned, including a Link's Awakening month, which is scheduled for when the title re-releases on the Nintendo 3DS virtual console.
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