To me personally as a gamer I can admit that the first video game that I ever played was Mario as I was born in the eighties and the first console that I actually owned was Nintendo or as many know it as the NES. Nintendo is very important to gaming, but without Mario and the creator of an Italian plumber and his brother Luigi, Shigeru Miyamoto Nintendo would not be what it is today. Let us celebrate the 25 years of Mario domination in gaming by checking out this awesome video that IGN put out, which brings you the history of Mario.

The folks over at the Disney Interactive studios seem to have done great work with Epic Mickey and you can see that in this new trailer that takes you in to the gameplay of this game. Epic Mickey looks promising and brings a classic look in a 3D world. Check them out on their Facebook if you have one, but if you are as interested in this title as I am, you can pre order this game by clicking here. (more…)

Real Nintendo fans out there know that even though Mario is the title that made Nintendo what it is today, the company had some helpers other then Mario. Donkey Kong is very important to Nintendo and what a better way to remember these old games with a new version of the popular side scroller. Below you can watch a trailer of the upcoming new Donkey Kong Country Returns game on the Wii. (more…)

If you are in Canada, we have some great news about and that is the Netflix is already working on all consoles up north in Canada.  Playstation 3 owners get all the perks up north as they will be able to stream their movies and TV shows on the PS3 without using that annoying disk. The awesome part of this feature is that if it’s already working in Canada then chances are that the feature will probably be coming our way. Canadians check out the features below on each console.

• PS3: Available now. It’s an application, so no disc is required (unlike the States). However, users have no ability to create an instant watch queue.
• Wii: Available now. Disc from Netflix.ca required. Also, no ability to build an instant watch queue.
• Xbox 360: Coming “soon.”

Check out these new screenshots of Konami’s upcoming Def Jam Rapstar, which shows you some of the rap artists that will be in the game. We also have below the list of some of the artists that will be in the game once it comes out, so check them out. In addition to the rappers that are in the game there will be DLC in the future, so check them out below.

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Gamers out there if you are having difficulties meeting a girl to play with you on XBOX Live or the PSN, you can try your luck with Game Crush. We told you about this one a few months ago, but at that time the site’s owners had to shut it down as they didn’t have the funding to keep the website’s server up and running. Game Crush is now working and if you are smooth enough with one of the game chicks you may get lucky.

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