Limited Edition Super Mario Brothers stamps have been released in Japan.
The "Super Mario Bros Stamp Collection" contains 10 stamps of the most popular Mario characters enlosed in a red leather effect presentation booklet.
The collection is available to buy now aand retails at around $25.
[Via Akihabara News]

The first ever issue of Nintendo Power was published just over 18 Years ago, In July 1988.
Now, Racket Boy has scanned this whole first issue and made it into a 33mb downloadable pdf. Nice!
This issue see’s a "20-page spectacular" Super Mario Brothers 2 preview and a Zelda walkthrough interspersed with some light 80’s advertising. [...]

Joystiq readers have discovered that upon loading up the Playstation 3 website, A small but distinct Apple logo can be seen just above the controller.
The site has now been fixed but you can still view the original page here (and hi-res screenshot here). From the article:
We called Sony’s PR and, after a few tries, [...]

Sony’s John Hight, Director of External Production at SCEA Santa Monica, Discusses with Gamasutra how their digital distribution platform will be beneficial for both publishers and developers alike.
"Certainly being able to sell globally on-line makes it easier to reach international and remote markets. On the business side, it also lowers our cost of sales [...]

Team Xtender has created the first all-chrome Xbox360 case.
The XCM 360 Full Chrome Case kit retails at $47.99 at decalgirl.com, The Faceplate is sold seperately at a further $12.
Each kit comes with "detailed installation instructions" and the tools needed to strip your 360 of its white shell.  

Crytek, The team behind the upcoming Crysis game for PC are looking to hire themselves some PS3 console programmers.
So far, Crytek have only announced Crysis for the PC (expected early 2007), but this job posting suggests that they’re looking to appeal to third party developers by bringing CryEngine2 to the PS3.

Online Entertainment retailer Shopto.net are offering pre-orders for the Nintendo Wii for £149.99 (about $275) and have the launch date chalked up for October 15th.
The £150.00 price point was expected in the UK, Though Nintendo boss Yoshihiro Mori has already stated that the Wii would cost no more than $250 when launched in the US.
Shopto [...]

A College student named Wim van Eck has created a version of Pac-Man which pits the player against real life crickets unwittingly controlling the ghosts in the game.
The aim of the project was to analyze the "advantages and disadvantages of real-time behaviour of live animals in comparison to behavior-generating code in computer games".
The [...]

Analysts from DFC Intelligence have published their prediction that Sony could end up at the bottom of the pile, behind Microsoft and Nintendo, in the next-gen wars.
They claim the high price and lack of quality titles as the main reason the system won’t appeal to as broad an audience. From the report:
“It is our [...]

After the official website was launched two weeks ago Ubisoft have posted up some more Xbox 360 screenshots of the the new Splinter Cell title ‘Double Agent‘. From IGN:
Double Agent is taking on the next generation by removing the HUD and the heavy, unnecessary text blocks, which in most Splinter Cell games were, honestly, [...]