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The new Nintendo DS is a handheld game console from Nintendo that succeeded in invading the hearts of the game loving users with its striking features and characteristics. This gaming console released in 2004 in Canada, U.S., and Japan features a clamshell design, which is almost same to the Game boy Advance SP, with two LCD screens inside, one of which is a touchscreen. The Nintendo DS gaming console features a built-in microphone and supports wireless IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standards, permitting players to interact with each other within short range (10-30 m, depending on conditions) or online with the Ninten...more

The Reason For Wii's Success

...games, all of a sudden turned their backs on it. Not because they weren't interested, but more because they simply couldn't handle the difficulty levels that were now presented before them. If you do some research, you'll find that this increase of difficulty was also reflected in the sales, or lack-of industry growth. The amount of people that used to play video games were all of a sudden decreasing. This put the industry in a sort of frenzy. There was one company though that really showed their concern - that company was Nintendo. It was around 2004 when Nintendo stated they felt the industry needed to change, and so procedures were taking place to make those changes happen. The result: Both the Nintendo DS and wii.

You'd almost have to be living under a rock in order not to hear of those systems. Their success thus far is simply unprecedented. But why is that? The answer is actually quite simple - those two systems are really easy to use. In a way, they go back to the basics of when games could be played by anyone. The DS uses a touch-screen as it's interface, and a stylus as it's "controller." Yet, this combination really works, and it's evident by the sales reflected by the ...more

Online Games - The Evolution

...Now we see thousands of people playing online games such as tetris, ping pong, mario bros, super mario etc for free but despite its history dating back to 1970s, for most people online gaming began with the explosion of Internet in 1993 and with the advent of Doom and Warcraft sometime in 1994 or 1995. This got further boost with publishers starting to add Internet connectivity to computer games in 1994-95.

The media, in fact, have themselves been ignorant about online games history. As far as they are concerned, online gaming just coincidentally happened when their advertisers started producing Internet-capable games. But it isn't so...

Early Years of development

In early 1950's a college student created a game much like Tic-Tac-Toe for a class project to be played on dinosaur computers of those days complete with cathode ray tubes for the screen display. The 1960's had MIT students programming a game called "Space war" that could be played with two people over a primitive network. The late 1960's brought the first "real" video games like table tennis and shoote...more

Why super Mario Bros 3 Is the Greatest Game of All Time

... super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis commercials were showing bright and crisp graphics, that hadn't been seen in video games outside of arcades. Everything changed the moment after the release of this revolutionary game. People saw that greatness could be achieved with dated technology. As the original super Mario Bros introduced the future of gaming, super Mario 3 would be the perfect bookend for the NES console. The game took the formula of what was great about the original and simply perfected it. It was the swan song of a generation....more