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Club Nintendo's Japanese Platinum Members Can Get the Most Awesome Throw Pillow Ever

Japan gets all the cool stuff, they have businessmen dressed as Mario and Luigi riding fast Japanese-made go-karts, vending machines that vend fully cooked curry, and now they have Mario Throw Pillows (as seen here on Joystiq). Yes, you heard me. If you're a platinum member of Japan's Club Nintendo, you will be receiving a throw pillow (also known as a love pillow) of an 8-bit Mario.
The Mario pillow is one of three freebie choices for platinum members. The others include the choice of two table calendars or [...]

Terry Proves Gaming While Blind is Possible.
Terry Garrett, a mechanical engineering student from Colorado is able to play an almost perfect game of Abes Exoddus. Not impressed? When if I told you this player was not only an excellent gamer but that he is also blind.
Having lost his first eye at the age of five and his second eye at the age of 10, Terry relies upon sounds, learning limitations of the world through trial and error, and quick-save convenience.
2D games, which are easier to navigate and those that pack great sounds, making it less of a challenge to track [...]

Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, New Nintendo Toys
Global Holdings, a company that works with Nintendo to get their items on the shelves of our local Wal-Mart, GameStop, ect., have produced a line of Nintendo toys that were released at the 2011 Toy Fair!!! They offer many different shades of Yoshi, a Mario figure who holds your DS, a Dark Link, with red glazed eyes, and of course they didnt forget about Daisy Donkey Kong and Kirby! Also many characters from the Mario and Zelda games are featured. Personally I would love to add the Dark Link to my collection of figurines [...]

Gaming Modz
Gaming Modz showcase those characters and titles that the gaming community really seem to latch on to. Guinness just asked over 13,000 gamers to vote for their favorite video game characters at their Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition website. The top 50 list compiled seems fairly accurate if you take a lesson from the gaming modz you see within gaming communities.
In the top 5 of this list you'll find characters that have been used for hundreds of gaming modz as well as some very cool community driven gaming modz based off these personalities.

#1 Mario – Mario will just about [...]

Game News - Mario on 3DS

The first Super Mairo Bros game was released by Nintendo in 1985, for over two decades the Super Maior Bro. was the best selling video game of all time. Since the release of the first game, there have been many other alternate versions. Vs. Super Mario Bros, which is in identical format with different stages and small differences and hidden items. All night Nippon Super Mario Bros, which was released in Japan and the graphic were based on Japanese radio show All-Night Nippon. Super Mario Bros. Special, a game that was a Japan release only [...]

Nintendo Latest Sports Game with Mario
Recently Nintendo of American gave confirmation of a release date for the upcoming Mario Sports Mix. The newest addition to the Mario sports games series will officially hit stores in the United States on February 7, 2011.
The game, created by Square Enix, will be available for the Nintendo Wii. It will feature games for up to four players in volleyball, hockey, dodgeball, and basketball. It will accommodate up to four players on one Wii, or up to two players can join online. Each game will include the ever-present power ups such as banana peels and [...]

LA is known for so many things and now they can add having a video game-themed dodgeball team into the mix as well. People come out and play dodgeball dressed up as video game characters. It isn't a rule that you have to dress up every week, but who doesn't want to dress up as their favorite character and make them really come to life. Participants get creative with their costumes and display a wide variety of characters from Mario and Sonic to Duck hunt and Carmen Sandiego. This is just another way to bring video games to another level [...]