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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...

Gears of War set to be released in September Great news! As of Wednesday (February 23rd), Gears of War 3 officially has a release date. This is great to know, especially since we were all expecting it this spring and it unfortunately got delayed. Microsoft now announced that Epics third installment to the Gears of War series will be dropping...

Vietnam places a gaming curfew! While China was facing issue with the deaths of those who were addicted to online gaming Vietnam has came up with a plan to help cut down the amount of time spent playing online games and eliminate side effects. The Ministry of Information and Communication has asked internet service providers to block access to on-line...

Video Game News: Civilization Music Composer awarded Music's Highest Honor. It's a first in video game history, never in its history has any part of video game's music industry won a Grammy. Christopher Tin who done recent work for Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, the Civilization series and various other video games, has beaten out other Grammy Nominees in the...

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...

Game "Journey" to be Made as Art Millions of gamers will run up to the plate to defend videogames as a legitimate art form, but not every game is truly artistic. The attribute of being artistic is a difficult attribute to define because every gamer and every critic has their own idea of what makes something undeniably Art. Without going...

Industry/Political News - Politician to Make Games to have Cigarette Box-like warnings Congressman Joe Baca (D-Califorinia) tried to introduced legislature in 2009 on display a label warning of links between violent video games and aggressive behavior. The proposal was denied. Read more about the 2009 legislature here. Cut to 2011, where he has now proposed the exact same legislature with...

Retro Halo Game Ever wonder what Halo would be like if it had been done for the original Nintendo? Eric Ruth has answered the question by creating a retro 8-Bit Halo: Combat Evolved called Pixel Force Halo. Definitely a cool title to check out if you've been curious about the kinds of design decisions that have to be made when...

Angry Birds, a popular mobile game where players solve puzzles by sending flying birds into structures housing the porcine adversaries who stole their eggs. As if the game hadnt already invaded your iphone, ipads, other mobile devises its about to invade either your computers or televisions as an animated series. Mikael Hed the CEO of the Finland-based company that created...

Capcom Game cures more Rage Quits? Rage quitting is an actionnewer to consoles then it is to PC, but the term and the actionhave been around for quite awhile. Rage quitting is exactly as it sounds, it's when a player is frustrated and has the suspicion they're going to lose an online game so they choose to disconnect rather then...