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Once again Princess Peach has been kidnapped and it’s Marios task to rescue her. A well used “story”, but it works.

This is the first new Mario 2D games since 1992 when Super Mario World was released on the SNES. Even if this is a 2D platformer, all characters are 3D and thats kind of cool. It works very well. The graphics is over all good. You only play with one screen, the other have some statestic and other information.

I like this game a lot. Some levels are easy and some harder, sometimes it’s frustrating. But after a small brake, you get the leveles. Not all worlds are accesible in the start. You have to find secrets paths to get to World 4 and 6. And a lot of the levels have different end paths. This adds a good replay value. Each level have three Star Coins you have to collect. This can bee used to Star Coin signs in the world map which opens new paths.

Mario have got three noew capabilies in this game; Mega Mario, Mini Mario and Shell Mario. Mega Mario is very cool. Mario get as high as the screen and you can run through everything. But I miss all the cool things Mario could do in SMB3 and SMW, like the cape and frogsuite.

It’s fun to be playing a new 2d Mario platformer. It’s a great game but it lack some of the inovative things that Super Mario Bros.3 (NES) and Super Mario World (SNES) had. This two games are among the best games ever created. But New Super Mario Bros. for the DS is a great game and I highly recommand it. Go and buy it!

You can try Lik-Sang.com or Play-Asia.com.

This have been a good week for Xbox Live users. I’ve been downloading all the tree new demos, which are very good, and lots of the new videoclips. I like it, a smart move for Microsoft.

I’ve also been watching Microsoft’s press conference online today. It was OK, nothing spectacular. Since Microsoft have had their Xbox360 out for halve a year now, game is everything. They showed some impressive videos. The new Xbox, Windows Vista and Windows Mobile symbiosis look interesting.

I’ve just watched Nintendo’s press conference online, and they know how to do their suff. It was real good. The Wii looks like a good pice of hardware and Zelda on launch is very welcome. The Mario game and the others also looked nice. I think it’s gonna rock.

The much talked about controller, looked very natural in the hands of the players and very intuitive. What I can see, Sony didn’t copy the motion sensor thing very good.

The press conference did not talk much about Wii’s download station nor the Wii and DS conectivity, but we will probably learn more about that in time to come.

Reggie, Miyamoto and Iwata rocks. They did a good performence at the press conference.

I saw the press conference for Sony online. It was an OK show, and in my opinion, with no big suprises. The biggest secret was the “new” controller which was looking the same as the old one, but with similarities to the Wii controller which we will get more info about this afternoon (in Europe, in the morning in US).

The price was also a bit high, but you get a Blue-ray player. A stand alone Blue-ray player will probably cost about the same as PS3.

I’ve pre-ordered the New Super Mario Bros. for DS at CD-wow (you can also try Lik-Sang). The game is released in US in may and in Europe not until July. For me, that’s a long wait. When I recive my copy, I will write a few words about what I think about the game.