Nintendo has got such a big pile of plaudits for the Nintendo 3DS announcement and the games it unveiled during its E3 2010 keynote that criticising it feels like turning up at a birthday party and stomping on the cake. But I’m not afraid to be a gaming grouch so I’ll come straight out and say it: pushing out new instalments of familiar franchises, reviving retro classics and mistreating Mario once again left me disappointed…
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Sonic the Hedgehog is making a comeback in HD with Sonic 4: Episode 1 but could he also be about to tussle with Mario again? Rumour suggests the formerly bitter rivals could be making a joint appearance once again…
The Ivor Novello awards, which celebrate songwriting, are set to introduce a new category this year – best original video game score. We’re big fans of the classic 
The murky world of gaming spin offs plunged to new lows last week when publisher Penguin and Ubisoft announced plans to unleash Assassin’s Creed 2: The Novel! But rather than priming a space on our book shelves and promising to read the book before we slide the disc into our PS3, we’ve primed a top ten of the worst gaming spin-offs ever. Hold onto your night vision goggles, we’ve unearthed some ‘classics’.
Nintendo is hard at work on a new Mario game. Not a scurrilous rumour, but word direct from the tubby plumber himself. Well, the man who provides his voice. So what exactly is this all new Mario game?
Mario creator and gaming God, Shigeru Miyamoto, has revealed that not only will the plot of Super Mario Galaxy 2 be considerably dumbed-down from the first instalment, but that this was a deliberate move.
Nintendo’s sequel to its massively popular Wii Fit, and a new Mario game for Nintendo Wii, will release this year in Japan according to Nikkei newspaper.
Do you smell what time it is? Meal time is here, so settle down with a sandwich and all the latest tech news in the lunchtime lowdown, after the jump!