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If you think of the world of video games there is no more famous and iconic character of Super Mario. Appeared for the first time in the game Donkey KongSuper Mario is a plumber dressed with a blue dungarette and a red shirt that, often accompanied by his brother Luigi, has the task of saving Princess Peach. Famous for its jumps (and for the sound...

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Video games in Italy have a turnover of 2.4 billion euros. This is what emerges from the latest annual report on gaming in Italy. These are very significant and important numbers, providing positive signals about the gaming sector's performance in Italy, not only regarding hardware and software. Indeed, the number of national video game companies i...

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The 39th annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) took place from March 17 to 21, 2025, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, bringing together the brightest minds in the gaming industry. This year’s theme, “Connecting the World through Games,” reflected the increasingly global nature of game development and the power of interactive ent...

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On Sept. 13, 1985, Nintendo launched Super Mario Bros., introducing numerous innovations in video game design, establishing conventions that are still followed today. Super Mario Bros. was not only an extraordinary commercial success, selling over 40 million copies, but it also became a global cultural phenomenon, showing video games could be a sop...

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In the early 1980s, Japanese video game company Nintendo set up its American operation in a small warehouse in Washington state. At one point during the development of the groundbreaking "Donkey Kong" video game, the owner of the warehouse, a man named Mario Segale, came to collect some overdue rent. The mustachioed Italian-American was not too ple...

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