Organizations seem to attack the video game industry a lot. That’s probably because it’s a newer industry that people don’t know much about, and people fear the things they are unfamiliar with. So rather than approaching the subject with an open mind, they attack it by any means necessary. So when we hear that a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mario’
Aaron’s Top 5 Characters
July 22nd, 2011
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Game characters are an odd beast. On one hand, some developers fill games with only the barest of essentials, a blank-slate avatar upon which the player can freely impress however much or little of themselves as they choose. More recently, as narrative continues to permeate gaming with more frequency and complexity, players are treated to [...]
We’re Fortunate Enough to Get Fortune Street
June 10th, 2011
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Guess what! We’re going to get Fortune Street for the Wii in North America! Oh, you don’t know what that is? Well then, allow me to explain. It’s a crossover, virtual board game that features characters and such from the Mario and Dragon Quest universes. It’s been a popular series in Japan since 1991 and [...]
Bullshot! 110 – It’s Spelled Y-O-U U Morons
June 8th, 2011
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The Nintendo Press Conference…show
[E3 2011] Super Mario Coming to 3DS This Year
June 7th, 2011
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Nintendo announced a new game starring our favorite plumber, and it is simply titled Super Mario. Not much was explained about it, but it looks like your basic Mario game, so what really needs to be explained? You’re Mario. You jump on goombas. You collect coins. He wears a tanooki suit. What they did tell [...]
Nintendo DS Lite Drops To $99 and Mario Gets Red Packaging
May 31st, 2011
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The times, they are a changing. Old handhelds like the wildly-popular DS Lite just don’t have a place in today’s world of DSi’s and 3DS’s. It may have once been the sexy new redesign for a promising new handheld, but now it’s a system that you can get for a mere $99 starting Sunday. While [...]
Mario & Sonic Head To The 2012 Olympics
April 21st, 2011
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Sega has officially announced Mario & Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games. What a mouthful. The game will be available on both the Wii and the 3DS. That’s right, we won’t be getting a version for the now old DS, forcing us all to eventually transfer over to the new handheld. Soccer and equestrian [...]
Let’s All Go to the Movies
December 1st, 2010
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Video game movies are awful. I mean, they’re just bad. From Mario to Mortal Kombat, and all of the Uwe Boll epics that have seen screen time in the past few years, video game movies suck. There are definite factors that one can point to when trying to figure out why a video game movie [...]