Nintendo Celebrates Super Mario

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25 years ago, Nintendo launched Super Mario Bros. in Japan, and the rest as-they-say is history. The original Super Mario Bros. has sold over 40.24 million units worldwide, while the Mario series has sold over 240 million units globally.

Stimulated by advancements in technologies, we have always enjoyed developing the Super Mario Bros. series, said Nintendo designer and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. The Super Mario Bros. series has always taken advantage of the latest technologies and is the fruit of the creativity of a number of my hard-working friends working as a team.

Spartans Take Trafalgar Square

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As part of the promotion of Halo: Reach in the U.K., men dressed as Spartans with jetpacks landed in Trafalgar Square. Appropriate, since the Spartans in the game actually do have jetpacks.

Halo is the biggest video game series in history and as a pop culture icon it s been called the Star Wars for the joypad generation,’ said Stephen McGill, Director of Xbox and Entertainment, UK & Ireland. Halo: Reach is the biggest and best Halo game yet with new features that will keep gamers entertained for years to come. One of the coolest new features are the Jetpacks that Noble Team Spartans are now equipped with. We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate the biggest entertainment launch of 2010 than with our very own Jetpack Spartan in one of London s most iconic landmarks.

Source: Dail Mail

Twitter Redesigning For YouTube, Flickr

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Twitter recently unveiled its plans to release a new design of its interface. The intention is to allow users to get to YouTube videos and Flickr photos with fewer clicks

“It’s really transformed the experience,” said Twitter Co-founder and Chief Executive Evan Williams said at an event. “This makes Tweets better.”

Williams indicates that traffic to Twitter has grown 100 percent in the last year, with 370,000 new accounts formed every day.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Partners With GameServers

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Activision will be offering dedicated servers for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. However, this option for PC gamers will be limited to one, sponsored choice.

“We are extremely excited about this unprecedented relationship with Activision to offer dedicated servers exclusively for Black Ops”, said GameServers CEO David Aninowsky. “We are placing a great amount of pressure on ourselves to ensure that we exceed any and all expectations.”

“If players want to run a dedicated Ranked or Unranked server on the PC, they will have to rent one through GameServers,” noted Josh Olin, Community Manager for Treyarch. “Treyarch will be providing a fleet of ‘Day-1 Servers’ (through GameServers) which will be up and operational on November 9.”

“Nobody will have to rent a dedicated server through GameServers in order to play the game,” added Olin. “But for anybody who wants to run their own server, it will be run from GameServers.com. If you rent a server, you will still have the ability to Kick, Ban, and Configure it the way you see fit. Of course Ranked servers will have some set configurations that can’t be messed with; but you will still have the power to administrate your servers as a customer of GameServers.”

Ranked servers will cost $14.95 for up to 18 players, while unranked servers will run players only $.99 a month for up to 24 players. Discounts apply if multiple months are purchased and Teamspeak, Ventrilo, and Mumble support has an additional cost depending on the number of slots needed

Source: IGN

Kevin Butler Moves In

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Kevin Butler is continuing to spread the word on the PS3, and his focus right now is squarely on the Move. In this ad, he talks about how the PS3 is not just good for family gaming, but Blu-ray and sitting gaming.

 

Ad Partners Key In IVillage Appointment

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iVillage will be promoting John Curbishley from VP of strategy to SVP of Business Development. This comes after the recent hiring of former Barnes & Noble content head Mike Skagerlind to take the job of SVP/GM of iVillage.

This shows that NBC Universal is pleased with the with the work to for ads with QualityHealth and EatingWell Media Group. The current focus of the female-centric content company involves solidifying the growth of the eight content verticals that were launched last year, while exploring additional partners in the B2B and B2C spaces.

Source: Paid Content

Nokia Announces Three New Symbians

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Nokia today announced the expansion of the Symbian^3 line of devices. Joining the Nokia N8 are the business device Nokia E7, the compact touchscreen C6 and the sleek touchscreen Nokia C7.

The E7has a 4-inch touchscreen display and a slide out four-row QWERTY keyboard, along with various business features like business grade device lock and wipe functionality, secure intranet access and remote device management. The C7 which has a 3.5-inch AMOLED display and is 10.5mm in width, where as the C6 has similar capabilities with a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen.

Today sees the Symbian^3 family of products grow to four, all to be available before the end 2010. This latest version of Symbian is packing 250 new features and improvements whilst remaining familiar to the millions of existing Symbian users worldwide. With multiple homescreen support, multitasking and gesture-based interactions, this latest version of Symbian^3 is a big leap forward, reads the official blog. We re excited to see the Symbian^3 family of devices come to life and we can t wait to get our hands on them after the keynotes have finished.

All of the new Symbian^3 devices are expected to release by 2010.

Source: Conversations.Nokia.com

Ico / Shadow of the Colossus Collection Listed By Walmart

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Ever since Sony announced the release of various PS2 collections (God of War and Sly Cooper) for the PS3, easily the most requested collection is for the two Team Ico titles to release together. They may get their wish, as Walmart is taking pre-orders for Ico / Shadow of the Colossus for PS3.

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, since SCE’s President of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida said Ico and Shadow of the Colossus is on the top of the list for an HD conversion. The collection is listed as being for $39.82, though the shipping information has not been given.