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Unlike other popular brands from the 1980s, Super Mario has endured, with more iterations of the game offered continually. Like other forms of video games, Super Mario commands various cognitive and motor skills, thus contributing to brain plasticity. Super Mario has inspired a corpus of psychology research. Here are seven interesting findings from...

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An Italian pope? It's been since 1978 Rome is preparing to host a conclave with three major problems Pope Francis’ love for Italy April 25th, Italy's Liberation Day: thanks to the American soldiers who made a huge contribution to our liberation How three Italian teens turned speed bumps into clean hydrogen energy Video game industry in Italy sees...

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When Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios Hollywood next month, amusement parkgoers will be treated to a highly immersive themed land straight out of the iconic Super Mario Brothers video games. The lineup of new attractions includes the Mario Kart-inspired ride Bowser’s Challenge, a merch shop called 1-Up Factory, and the Mushroom Kingd...

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The video game for mobile devices ‘ITALY. Land of Wonders’ (“ILOW”), produced by the Farnesina, is now enriched by a dedicated web page (https://ilow.esteri.it), where Internet users will be able to find all the contents of the eponymous puzzle game designed to introduce Italy, its cultural heritage and its wonders to the foreign public, and in par...

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The enormous passion aroused in recent years with the so-called souls-like, you just have to see the success in sales of Elden Ring, continues to encourage new studios to seek to venture into this type of proposal, contributing their own personal touch. There are many examples, but the one we want to stay with in this news is Project Galileo, with...

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As per Variety, Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s adaptation of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game series, which was scheduled to release on December 21, will now hit the theatres on April 7, 2023, in North America.  A Japanese release will follow on April 28. Sharing the update, Super Mario Bros. series creator and Nintendo leader Sh...

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Super Mario is a household name to most gamers, and the enormously popular game series centered around the character has been a heavily protected property of Nintendo. But if things had gone differently, you may have been able to hop for coins and battle Bowser on your PC. A cataloguer at The Strong National Museum of Play recently found a PC demo...

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The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the launch of ‘ITALY. Land of Wonders’, a video game that is aimed at bringing the cultural heritage and wonders of Italy to a worldwide audience in general, and to young people in particular. Graphically appealing and targeted to both children and adults and created by Infinity Reply, ‘ITALY. Land...

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Ciao a tutti! Spero che tutti si siano divertiti quest’estate. Alcuni di noi hanno avuto il piacere di vedere alcuni di voi a vari eventi come la festa di Ferragosto e The Festival of Nations mentre per altri la riunione di Ottobre rappresenterà la prima opportunità di riunirsi con altri appassionati della lingua e cultura italiana da mesi. Per la...

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Mario Segale, the namesake for Nintendo’s Mario character and a successful American real estate developer, passed away on October 27, Kotaku has learned. Segale was surrounded by his family in Tukwila, Washington. He was 84. Segale developed office buildings and malls in Washington state and, in 1998, sold his construction services company to an Ir...

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