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Entire Super Mario Bros (NES) Free Level Map Images

One of the most important games of all time has to be the first Super Mario Bros game on the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). The legendary series is credited to globally renown Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (b.1952), who also created Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Pikmin and other series of games for Nintendo. [...]

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Riding the Line: LineRider on Wii and DS

The infuriatingly addictive Line Rider, which since it was first seen via website deviantART as a free Flash-made interactive ‘toy’ on the PC in 2006 has become an internet phenomenon, is now to be released on Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS in Spring 2008. One of the many highly acclaimed Youtube videos showing Line [...]

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Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board Accessory and Bundled Games

About the Wii Fit The Wii Fit Balance Board is a new accessory from Nintendo, which, following almost two years of intensive development by a full-scale Nintendo team, is now available on the shelves in Japan, with the European release date scheduled for 25 April 2008. Australian and North American release dates are set for [...]

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Creative and Original Games Need More Mainstream Publicity to Improve the Image of Gaming

It’s not that I think people who play or create shooter games are stupid (although the Publishers are lacking in vision for the future). It’s just that I generally get tired of repetition. Some people find this comforting, indeed there are many people who choose to play just one game for years. I don’t just [...]

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XBLA, XNA and PSN Rescue us from First Person Shooters. Time for something new.

After yet another onslaught of ‘Shooters’ in 2007, including Halo 3, Crysis, Unreal Tournament III, Quake Wars, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect… OK there was Portal (bundled with Half Life 2 – but essentially wasn’t it just reiterating what Prey had innovated, albeit in a much slicker, more puzzlesque way. I for one am [...]

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Adobe Software Costs 60% More in the UK. Director 11 is $640 Cheaper in the US.

Adobe’s multimedia authoring environment, Adobe® Director® 11 software has been over four years in development. However, despite the extra years that they have had over Adobe’s Flash development team to update and improve it’s features, it is unfortunately looking like just a patch

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