Pwn Palace

“looose HIM! LOOOSE…”


Image by icedsoul photography .:teymur madjderey
"…HIM!!!"
"I am trying man, I am trying!"
"I can’t belive we are being chased by a f@#%&ing dino on a giant kart and you can’t loose him!!!"
*swoosh*
"Ahhh!!!"
"was that a bloody turtleshell?"
"a what?"
"A BLOODY TURTLESHELL!!!"
"DUDE FLOOOOOOOOOR IIIIIIT!"

-day sixtyone-
of my one year photo project

Netflix Coming to Nintendo 3DS Thursday
Nintendo 3DS owners will get a free app Thursday that will allow Netflix members to stream movies and TV shows on the device.
Read more on Mashable via Yahoo! News

Nintendo, Monster Hunter Clean Up in 2011 Japan Sales
The effects of Japan’s March 11 earthquake, coupled with the slower-than-expected launch of Nintendo’s 3DS portable, caused sales figures for the first half of the year to fall sharply from the previous. According to statistics tabulated by Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, total sales for console and portable system hardware and software amounted to 191.9 billion yen, about $ 2.42 billion, for the …
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Trip Hawkins: Nintendo Ran A “Feudal” Development System
Speaking at the GamesBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco today, current Digital Chocolate CEO and former EA founder Trip Hawkins had some harsh works for Nintendo and console platforms in general. As reported by Gamasutra , Hawkins opened fire on Nintendo’s old business practices while singing the praises of browser-based gaming. “Look at the world wide web and how many great companies have …
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Eight Japanese Nintendo Games You’ll Never See In The U.S.
A short while ago, Nintendo seemingly closed the door on the possibility of releasing Wii RPGs Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower in the U.S., much to the chagrin of its fans, some of which launched a grassroots effort called Operation Rainfall to get these games published.
Read more on Business Insider

News: HotD: Overkill PS3 extras revealed
Exclusive features and new screens shown. Sega has detailed all the exclusive additions coming to the impending PlayStation 3 version of Wii rail shooter House of the Dead: Overkill. Highlights include two additional levels, new weapons, game modes and some hitherto unseen enemy types. Here’s the full list, as posted on the PlayStation Blog: Read more…
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Netflix App Added to Nintendo 3DS eShop
Netflix has been added to another mobile device, and this time it’s the Nintendo 3DS.
Read more on PC Magazine via Yahoo! News

Netflix Streaming Now Available on Nintendo 3DS Hand-Held Systems
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Starting today, Nintendo 3DS™ owners across the United States and Canada can download a free application that allows Netflix members with unlimited streaming plans to instantly watch TV episodes and movies streaming from Netflix. The attractive, easy-to-use service adds a huge value to the Nintendo 3DS portable system, and again demonstrates how Nintendo 3DS …
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Thank you Mario!


Image by Profound Whatever
But our princess is a lie.

19-year-old wins game design scholarship
SAN BERNARDINO – Art student Alicia Crawford has a rare opportunity to gain a foothold in the video game industry after winning a scholarship intended to help young women find a way into the business.
Read more on Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Top 10 point guards available in free agency
With a handful of teams still on the prowl for a point guard, Zach Lowe breaks down the 10 best free agents up for grabs, including Dallas’ J.J. Barea and the Suns’ Aaron Brooks.
Read more on Sports Illustrated

Happy Valentine’s Day


Image by david_a_lea
Mario decided to give it one last shot to impress Princess Peach.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Rui Costa wins stage as Hushovd keeps yellow jersey
Portugal’s Rui Costa held on to win the hilly Tour de France stage eight to Super-Besse with Thor Hushovd doing just enough to keep the yellow jersey.
Read more on Malta Today

Can Hoboken’s Chef Christopher Nirschel revive Little Italy? Well, he’s certainly going to try
Doug Bauman/The Jersey JournalChef Chris Nirschel represented Hoboken on season 7 of The Food Network Star, but now is faced with a bigger task of reviving Little Italy where he serves as executive chef of Cafe Napoli.If Christopher Nirschel were…
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Out and About: Weekend Picks
Your guide to the fun stuff going on around the region this weekend, including: stargazing on the National Mall, lots of free movies, the Ballston Arts & Crafts Market, a Bloody Mary Bar Crawl, CLITfest (get your mind out of the gutter) and more fireworks! [ more › ]
Read more on DCist

Toilet paper wedding dress winner wipes competition away
At the annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest in Boca Raton, Fla., dresses are judged on their creativity, originality, beauty and — most significantly — their use of toilet paper.
Read more on MSNBC

EDITORIAL: Nintendo’s Tipping Point?
Jon wonders if Operation Rainfall could mark a turn in Nintendo’s fortunes. Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point is a book that I’ve had sitting around for a while, and recently I’ve decided to finish it off (yes, even my Kindle has a backlog). It attempts to answer the question of what contributes to certain products or behaviors going “viral”, and breaks down the elements that Gladwell …
Read more on Nintendo World Report

USBA heavyweight champ Maurice Harris seeks redemption
NEW YORK (July 8, 2011) – Much more than his title belt will be on line Saturday night , July 16 when USBA Heavyweight Champion Maurice “Sugar Moe” Harris makes his first defense against Derric“The Shaolin Fist” Rossy at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Harris needs to erase the memories of his last fight in order to keep his roller coaster-like career alive.
Read more on Hot Boxing News

Best iPhone games of 2011 (so far)
The first half of 2011 is behind us, and so far, there have been some great new games flooding the iTunes App Store that really put the iPhone through its gaming paces. So what is there to do with all those games, but to pick our favorites so far?
Read more on appolicious

Confessions of a Game Dev Girl
Game development involves a lot more than just sitting on a couch all day. Ria LuWhen I’m at the Komikasi Studio, I always have lunch with the production people. And we’d talk about anything under the sun, from Transformers to comic books to the pizza guy next door trying to flirt with one of our girls.
Read more on GMA News Online via Yahoo! Philippines News

Confessions of a Game Dev Girl
When I’m at the Komikasi Studio, I always have lunch with the production people. And we’d talk about anything under the sun, from Transformers to comic books to the pizza guy next door trying to flirt with one of our girls.
Read more on GMA News

Nintendo breaks rank, makes Pokemon game for iPhone
Nintendo has done something out of the ordinary and created an app for the Apple App Store and Android Market. The app is a game called Pokémon Say Tap? BW and will be the first official Pokemon game available on hardware other than Nintendo’s own. The Japanese company teamed up with Game Freak on creating the game, which can be played on Android smartphones, iPods, iPhones and iPads….
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NEWS: Nintendo Will Not Bring Games to Smartphones
Pokémon Company is working independently on their game for iPhone and Android. Nintendo will not be bringing any games to smartphones and will develop software only for their own hardware platforms. This strategy “hasn’t changed and won’t change,” said Yasuhiro Minagawa, a spokesperson for Nintendo Co., Ltd. This comment was in response to the announcement of a smartphone game from The Pokémon …
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Why I’m losing faith in Nintendo
(That’s a Wii game, recognize it, no. . . well that’s because it is only a japanese game) Recently gamers who love Nintendo have been begging for them to release games in America that have been made in Japan and are scheduled for European companies. These games include the newest DS Fire Emblem, Soma Bringer, Xenoblade (featured above), Pandora’s Tower, and the Last Story. Nintendo fans even …
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News: Nintendo disappoints US fan campaign
No plans to release Last Story, Xenoblade. Nintendo has finally responded to the widespread fan movement campaigning to get Japan-only titles The Last Story, Xenoblade Chronicles and Pandora’s Tower localised for the US market, and the news isn’t good. A post on NOA’s Facebook page yesterday read: “Thank you for your enthusiasm. We promised an update, so here it is. We never say ‘never,’ but we …
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