Gaming celebrates a very special birthday as Shigeru Miyamoto turned 59 years old today.
Considered as one of the most important and influential people in the video game industry either in terms of aspiration (ex. Cliffy B from Epic Games) or from his innovations with gaming (ex. Z-Targeting in Ocarina of Time and 3D platforming in Super Mario 64).
Some notable achievements include being credited with helping Nintendo's entrance into the console video game industry in 1983 with the NES (1984 in the US), the revival of the console video game industry from Atari's crash in 1983, and the resurgence of Nintendo's dominance with the Wii involving Wii Sports.
Along with creating the Donkey Kong series as one of his first creations, he is also credited as the father of the Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, and countless other video games series both new and old. While he wasn't the creator of the GameBoy series, he did have influence in the design and eventual success of both the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS handheld systems.
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Daily Recap:
1) EA offering Burnout Paradise as a free game for their Origin services but the offer only includes just the UK at the moment but the game itself doesn't require Origin to be playable.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ea-u...se-origin-free
2) Ubisoft's Montreal is currently rumored to recently have aquired the actual dev kits and console for the next Xbox system along with EA who had them earlier and other studios expected to recieve them before the end of the year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ts-hit-ubisoft
3) Sony announces several pre-order bonuses for the upcoming PS Vita and similar to when the PSP was released, none of the pre-orders actually include any games nor will the system be bundled with a game for free.
http://www.gamezone.com/news/sony-an...-order-bonuses