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Need more evidence that New Super Mario Bros is going to be THE definitive Super Mario Bros game? How about Nintendo releasing the NSMB Official Site at mario.nintendo.com? This could have been a portal for all things Mario. Mario Tennis and Mario Kart fans could have made this their daily Mario fix. But in a bold move, Nintendo has basically declared NSMB as the future of Mario, by dedicated his whole subdomain to his new DS game.

There is a new video released there today too. Showing Mario in the dungeons and swimming with a shell. If you need one good handheld gaming reason to attend E3 this year, this game is it!

Nintendo has their WiFI preview site up and running at NintendoWiFi.com. In just over a month, I'll be pWning y'll on MarioKart DS Online! Can't wait for the real fun to begin...

[via digg.]

Hey, it worked for the PS2, and almost every other system out there. Let's get Linux on this ripe system and see what it really can do...

[danke! GadgetMadness]

Here's the other site we promised tonight. We're happy to help announce the launch of PSP Garden! PSP Garden is a collection of all the great PSP sites on the net, including our Sony PSP feed. PSP Garden is the brainchild of that looney lunacy8m, owner and Head Editor of GadgetMadness, Portagame contributor, and good friend of mine.

I know a lot of time went into the concepting and design of PSP Garden. If you're looking for the BEST sony PSP News on the net, you're already in the right place. But if you're looking for ALL the good PSP news out there, stop by PSP Garden. This is truly a good example of news aggregation done right.

We have given our due diligence and we conclude that 4 Color Rebellion is a very cool site. If we were Yahoo and cared, we'd have given it the cool site of day award a long time ago. How cool are they? So cool. They're hyper cool. Retro cool even. Check out their IGNore campaign (which we have no reason not to join), how cool is that?. Or the recent Nintendo Power Howard & Nester (NESTER!) sightings. We love sites that dig out the obscure. 4CR gets the unofficially official PortaGame Cool Site of the Day Award. And some cheese.

Kotaku is one of the three latest Gawker flavored weblogs to keep us up on news and not so newsie games stuff. A derivative of the japanese word "otaku", which basically means "unhealthily obsessed", Kotaku has a fresh approach to games coverage which we can relate to. They'll be bringing only the top-of-the-scene news which they find trendy, instead of redigesting the millions of video game related press releases that magically appear during the week. We look forward to their unique view on the video games industry.

We have another confession. We've been cheating on our favorite gadget weblogs. We've been lured in by the colorfulness and lucidity of newcomer Uber Gizmo. Oh, the others need not worry. We'll keep them around like scarlet mistresses. Uber Gizmo just happens to be our flavor of the week. After all, we did find a mercury free button battery and letters via email at their blogger based site. (psst...uber guys, here's a tip: upgrade from blogger)

Some link lovin to the guys at GP32 Xtreme. They have assembled an excellent site for the GP32 that is updated almost every day. If you GP32 nut heads haven't experienced GP32 Xtreme yet, you probably shouldn't own a GP32. News for the system doesn't come any fresher than this.

Starting from today, our site is proudly sponsored by the nice folks at Lik-Sang.com. This means discounts, giveaways, reviews and possible other options as the sponsorship develops...

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