Mario goes Modern Warfare in this fantastic fan-made YouTube video. In Mario Warfare, we see knife wielding Sky Guy surprise an unsuspecting guard and the usually peaceful bodyguard Toad instead popping bullets whilst escorting Princess Peach The production team are also looking for donations to help finish the web series as part of a Mario Warfare Kickstarter. It’s a great
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It’s videos like this that make me so glad YouTube is around. Some devoted gamer out there has produced a handful of Mario sprites using Hama beads and created a stop motion movie using them in real life environments. Now is it just me or would a new Mario title be totally fantastic like this? It would certainly be a
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While Mario is making his Wii U debut with the console’s launch tomorrow, gamers are eager to know if we can expect a full fledged 3D adventure for the portly plumber. After the Zelda demo two years back at E3 the same question has been posed for Link too. Well Nintendo global president, Satoru Iwata told IGN, “We will announce
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Not really breaking news, but entertaining nonetheless. Charles Martinet, the voice of Nintendo’s lovable mascot Mario made a surprise appearance on the Australian news. Only on the report very briefly, Australian news reporters interviewed him by pure chance while covering a story about an airport security breach. Charles was one of thousands of passengers set to fly out of Melbourne
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The Ohio State University Marching Band delivered a fantastic 10-minute tribute to video games during a halftime performance for an American football match between Ohio and Nebraska. The theme included parts from Zelda, Halo, Pokemon, Tetris, and others. As well as music, the entire army of musicians rearranged themselves into iconic sights from Space Invaders, Mario, Halo, Zelda, Pac-Man, Pokemon
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Mario and Zelda are two of the company’s biggest franchises and its often interesting to see just how well the plumber and elf perform sales wise. Well recently on NeoGaf someone revealed figures showing off just this. These numbers have been collaborated from the CESA who originally published the list of Nintendo games that were shipped more than 1 million
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According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, we’ll see the first Super Mario game for Wii U at E3 this year! When translated, the original story sees Shigeru Miyamoto telling the newspaper he “anticipates” Nintendo will reveal its mascot’s first HD outing on 5th June. If you remember last year we saw a demo of what was called New Super Mario
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Seems Nintendo have recently registered a domain for ‘supermario4.com’. Nintendo of America controls the domain, which when searched actually redirects to the platform holder’s website. Remember at the last investor’s presentation in January Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata announced a new 2D Mario title was in development for the 3DS with a release planned for during its next fiscal year (April
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In the last year or so it seems clear that Nintendo have really tried harder in bringing more of their unique franchises and titles overseas to the US and Europe. Games like Inazuma Eleven and Xenoblade Chronicles saved what was essentially a lacking release schedule last year and with the promise of even more experiences like The Last Story, Pandora’s
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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata last night revealed that a new 2D Mario game was in the works for the 3DS. This was announced during an earnings call last night. When discussing the 3DS in 2012 he mentioned “Although there is no logo here, we are planning to release a totally new side-scrolling action Super Mario in 2D as a key
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