Super Mario Bros. 3 Firefox Theme Version 2.6

It is no secret that Super Mario Bros. 3 is my favorite game of all time and that Firefox is my browser of choice. So how do I bring that love for the game and the browser together. Well the answer came with a Firefox theme by freewally called the Super Mario Bros. 3 Firefox Theme Version 2.6. It is a visual mashup of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Firefox that is pure eye candy.

Install instructions for the Super Mario Bros. 3 Firefox Theme Version 2.6:
Download the theme to your desktop from freewally.
Open up Firefox.
Go to Tools/Add-ons/Themes.
Drag the Super_Mario_Bros_3_2_6___Back_by_freewally.jar file on to the Themes window.
Software Installation window will pop up.
Click Install Now.
Super Mario Bros 3 2.6 will show up in the Themes window.
Click Use Theme.
Restart Firefox.
If you want check View/Toolbars/Customize/Use Small Icons to use the pipes toolbar instead of the standard Mario and Luigi toolbar.
Finish.


Super Mario Bros 3 2.6 – Back by ~freewally on deviantART

Vigil: Blood Bitterness Demo

Loaded up Steam the other day and was presented with the Vigil: Blood Bitterness demo. It catch my eye because of the black and white characters and environments. So I took the plunge and downloaded the demo through Steam. The intro movie definitely puts you into a dark and gloomy world where it will be up to the main character to sort everything out. The sinister sounding voices just add to this shadowy game. The game play is accessible because Vigil is controlled by the mouse with the left click moving the character and the right click is used to open passages and pray. You read that right you get to pray in this game in certain areas with the character dropping to his knees and chanting some ominous words to unlock secrets. Overall the Vigil: Blood Bitterness demo was impressive with its own style and intriguing story that will pull you in.

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Nielsen Video Game Ratings

More evidence that video games are taking over has now been confirmed by the Nielsen Media Research company. Nielsen will begin to rate video games just as they do televisions and their advertisements. Nielsen’s GamePlay Metrics will essentially will offer video game advertisers and developers a more precise way to track how the advertisements in-game are being used. This will help developers gain a larger audience with more advertisers help picking up some of the cost. The GamePlay Metrics service will be available Mid-2007, just in time for the “Big 3” (Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii) to cash in on the new video game tracking system.

Nielsen Video Game Ratings

Xbox Live No More…

For today only Xbox Live and Xbox.com will be down for “adding cool stuff”. I don’t know what that means but we will all find out tomorrow, October 18th at 12:00am. You won’t be able to do anything with Live such as seeing your friends or downloading games but your offline game achievements will be saved and uploaded to Xbox Live tomorrow. So everyone has a guess as to what will be new and so I want to throw my guess into the mix. I think after the update all Xbox 360s will transform and defend the Earth from the Decepticons. More than meets the eye!

Xbox Live Unplugged