<![CDATA[Jezebel: Nintendo]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Nintendo]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/nintendo http://jezebel.com/tag/nintendo <![CDATA[The $435 Super Mario Brothers Sweater]]> You have to give this to Shigesato Itoi, designer of these retro-inspired wool homages to Nintendo: he doesn't make you choose between Mario and Luigi. More »
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  • Designer Sophie Théallet has won the $200,000 Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Award. "Thank you for making my American dreams come true," said she. [Style.com]
  • Skating at an outdoor rink in London, Lily Cole knocked over a small child. [Daily Mail]
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]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5406509&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Princess Peach Needs Some Self Defense Classes]]> Tracey John cornered game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and asked why Princess Peach isn't a playable character in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. His answer: It takes too long to code the dress. Real answer: She's kidnapped, again. [Techland, Kotaku] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5405806&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ The number of girl gamers is up, but will...]]> The number of girl gamers is up, but will women spend hours sitting in their mom's basement eating chips and tapping away on their pink bedazzled Nintendo DSs? 38% percent of video game players in the U.S. are female, up from 33% five years ago, according to IBISWorld, but the new problem for software companies is that women are more casual gamers than men. "The challenge is not to get them to play, but to get them to spend more of their time and money on games," says Anita Frazier, an industry analyst. But rather than creating complex, engrossing games aimed at women or recruiting more female game designers, software companies are just churning out more games about fashion, cooking, babies and makeup, according to Didi Carduso, managing editor of Grrlgamers.com, a video game review site produced by women. "I think a girl's world is a little bigger than that," she said. [Reuters] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5058566&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It's Hard To Be A Jew On Christmas]]> Tomorrow's Christmas, or, as I knew it throughout my childhood, that day when I'm bored and nothing is open. I'm 100% Heeb, and my mother was so anti-Christmas that we didn't even do the stereotypical Jew things like eat Chinese food and go to the movies. Doing those things would be a tacit acknowledgment that Christmas existed, and my mom wasn't about to kowtow to the status quo. I've elided all my severe Christmas envy into one mental image: me, at eight, pressing my hooked nose against the window panes of our Christian neighbors' houses as they embraced around the tree, tearing the wrapping paper off their brand new Nintendos in some sweater-clad, ritualized, yuletide orgy. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337196&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Nintendo's Rise Means For Those Of Us With Tits]]> Nintendo is now Japan's second-largest company after Toyota. At first when we heard this, we were like, "whatever, Softbank used to be Japan's second-largest company after Toyota," but this time it isn't the fault of a stock market on rave drugs, it's about women, and not because we have to make it about women in order to appease Anna, but because Nintendo spiritual leader Shigeru Miyamoto actually designed the ubiquitous bestselling Wii thinking of his wife, as he pointed out a few months back on CNN:
My wife does not play any kind of games. I have tried to make her interested with various games like Tetris, but she has never showed interest, until recently. But we're beginning to tear down the walls... Hopefully women will begin to enjoy games more. I think our target will be mothers.
Aw. We've never been so charmed by an executive talking about his attempt to get women to buy more shit we don't need! More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=303524&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Moms — Just Like US? Alpha Moms Start A TV Channel, Play Ninetendo Wii Edition]]> You might have gathered that we are conflicted about parenting. Whatever our awe-inspiring productivity might suggest bloggers are not cyborgs of snark; we are humans, who were parented once, and who occasionally eat peanut butter straight from the jar, just like you would if you had a job that never actually required you to wear anything higher-end than Bitten By Sarah Jessica Parker. Anyhow, central to our conflict is whether to accept the whole "Moms—they're just like US!" theory they keep foisting upon us like a stroller in a crowded block of midtown when we're ten minutes late to an interview, or to consider them an alien species, as our own moms are. Each day, we will devote this space to examining motherhood, and whether it truly is compatible with regular human existence. More »
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