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To this point, I've received a great number of screenshots that focus on peeking at the undergarments of certain Brawl combatants. So let me just say it again—shots like these will never be posted to the Dojo or sent out to users via the Smash Service.

Screenshot Collection #2 [Smash Bros. Dojo!! - Thanks Stephen!]]

Possibly NSFW, depending on where you work!

Smash Bros X [My Game News Flash]

By The Numbers: The Forbes Fictional 15 [Forbes.com - Thanks Greg's Wife!]

Slightly NSFW Costumes [3wishes via Dark Diamond]

AUTOGRAPHED Club Nintendo Mario Family Set eBay
[Thanks, Steven]

I say she almost nailed the exact thickness of the Lite, do you agree?

Princess Peach's Castle: it's one of the Mushroom Kingdom's most prominent landmark immortalized in playing cards. Tipster Professor Hazard passes this along:

Check out this house of cards that Sasha Fiero over at Snipe Hunt Media made! It's Peach's Castle from Super Mario 64, complete with moat and a Queen of Hearts for the picture of Peach on the front. I thought this might be the kind of thing you guys would want to see.

Here's a nice weekend craft for all you olde shcool video game crafters. Lenore at Hacker Zen has made these awesome 8-bit Mario and Peach shirts using a few household sundries and acrylic fabric paint. The end result is really terrific and nothing wears better than something you made yourself. This way you won't be in danger of going to a party and finding three other people wearing that Pac-Man shirt you got from Target.

Lenore gives step by step instructions for you folks who are willing to put down the controller for a few hours and dedicate yourself to the project. But for god's sake DON'T USE PUFF PAINT. Flynn De Marco

Make a Video Game Pixel Art T-Shirt [Hacker Zen]

It's no surprise that Nintendo has been kicking ass and taking names over the past year with the Wii and the DS. As a matter of fact, the NPD numbers prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Well, this month's NPD Group numbers are no exception, seeing the Wii and DS as the number one selling systems in the U.S.

This time however, instead of sending out a static business email filled with numbers, Nintendo has enlisted their own Princess Peach to deliver the news. Cute and corny? Yes, but at least it's not dull and boring. More emails should be like this. Because let's face it, who wouldn't want to get a message from Peach?

Make the jump to read Peach's communique'! Flynn De Marco

Oh, my! All this attention is enough to make a girl blush!

As a princess I'm used to being adored, but this is just too much! I know I'm probably sounding like a broken record, but once again my friends at the NPD Group are telling me that Wii and Nintendo DS finished May as the most popular systems in the United States.

Thanks to everyone for your wonderful support! Nintendo couldn't have made it back to the top without you. You're all Mario-caliber heroes in my book.

Now I'm not one to brag, but some of the top games of this month happen to feature someone very pretty and popular - me! I'm talking about the super-fun Mario Party 8 and Super Paper Mario for Wii. Sure, Mario gets top billing, but from where I sit (on my throne), I'd say he's earned it. Besides, my own game on Nintendo DS, Super Princess Peach, is still selling strong, showing that a girl can do anything she puts her mind to.

I think all my Super Princess Peach fans would have just as much fun working to earn their Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree. I'm not in that one, but don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. Be sure to watch for me in my super-stylish soccer gear in Mario Strikers Charged, which arrives on Wii on July 30. I can't wait!

Kisses!

Peach

Wow, that Peach sure does get around. Just a few months back we get an invitation to her wedding to Bowser and now she's marrying Link? But then I think we all know about Peach's questionable morals.

It really reminds me of the illustrations in the Little Golden Books I had as a kid. Some of my favorite parts of this image are Link's tie and the silhouettes of Pikachu, Megaman and Fox McCloud in the background. I also question exactly what Luigi is looking at as he wipes his tears away... Flynn De Marco

Nintendo Plot Twist [YTMND]
[via GayGamer]

Holy smoke! Jonathan Keller over at crafty site c71123 got Princess Peach cross-stitched on this shirt by his mom. Why would anyone want a giant Peach on their sleeve? Jonathan explains:

A fair question, and well, it's because I'm a huge dork. A little background:

• I'm currently really into embroidery
• I spend way too much time in front of a computer
• I've always thought that the grid-pattern on my dress shirt looked like pixels
• I love Super Mario Bros.
• Lately, I'm a major queen (though many would argue this is not a recent event)

Next big thing: Retro gaming sleeves? Let's hope. Brian Ashcraft

Amazing Peach Sleeve [c71123 via NOTCOT.org]

Ah, Hot Topic, no one can turn something uncool as quickly as you. Alright, well maybe that's being a bit too harsh. There are a few cool things that come through there every once in a while, but this t-shirt is sadly not one of them. I do give them props for actually making something with Peach on it though. Not something you see very often outside the Nintendo World Store, and even there they only have one.

Now you can gift your favorite girly girl gamer with this rather questionable shirt. At least you can say it's for your girlfriend, but we all now you'll be wearing it yourself in the privacy of your bedroom while posing in the mirror. Don't worry, we won't tell. Flynn De Marco

Princess Peach T-shirt [Hot Topic]
[The Tanooki]

Familiar Nintendo faces become greedy, real-estate moguls along side some of the character of Square-Enix's Dragon Quest in Itadaki Street, a monopoly-like game from the DS coming out for the Japanese market in June.

Outside of regular Monopoly rules, players can also buy and sell stocks of an entire block of property (affecting their values), and there is also the option to level-up by collecting icons all over the board. Plus there are different boards like Castle of Torodaine, Death Volcano, Giant Demon's Statue and Yoshi's Island, so it's not like being in that Atlantic City Alcatraz for three hours waiting for some one to "JUST BUY BOARDWALK ALREADY SO WE CAN ALL GO HOME." Kim Phu

Meet the Characters of Itadaki Street DS [Siliconera]

Bungie's Frankie sends word that voice actress Jen Taylor is reprising her role of Cortana in Halo 3. Hope Bungie's paying her more than US $500, 'cause I hear those Halo games are money-makers. What's she think of the new Halo? Says Taylor:

There's a lot more drama and a lot less technical jargon this time around. I actually just finished a couple of lines that nearly had me in tears. For an actor, more drama is always good.

Good to know. Also good to know: Jen Taylor voices Princess Peach as well! Brian Ashcraft

Cortana Returns! [Bungie, Thanks Michael!]

Poor Peach, stuck leasing parking lots. They could have at least had the decency to tag her on the side of a high-end jewelery store or fashionable boutique. Heavy hangs the head that last night wore the crown. Flynn De Marco

Game site Serious Games Source (so serious, it has serious in the title) picks apart "the most politically incorrect Nintendo game ever," Super Princess Peach as well as the size queen aspect of New Super Mario Bros.:

I would like to mention that a few months after Super Princess Peach was released, Nintendo launched another Mario platform game for the Nintendo DS: New Super Mario Bros. This game featured new superpowers for Mario, too. Rather than using his emotions, Mario was able to shift sizes, from tiny to enormous. I never thought about this until I wrote this article but Nintendo's choice of female and male superpowers for both games in nothing short of hilarious. One game defines women as emotionally unstable while the other one presents boys as being obsessed with their size. Why is Mario so worried about how big he can be? Who is he trying to impress? Has Luigi been recently dating somebody? Are the mushrooms an aphrodisiac? What is Yoshi's gender? I always thought Yoshi was male but he lays eggs. As you can see, sex in the Mario world can be quite a complex topic. That is why Nintendo should try not to oversimplify it with stereotypes.

Eh... So this is "serious," huh? Brian Ashcraft

Super Macho World [Serious Games Source, via GSW]

Sometimes we wonder if in posting all this game-related graffiti, we are actually promoting vandalism. We wonder if the hooligans that race around painting things like this Princess Peach on a Willie Yahrio School Board elections poster just out Santa Cruz actually think, "Boy, I hope this gets on Kotaku." So, know, we do not condone spray painting video games characters and wish Willie Yahiro best of luck with his School Board elections, whoever the hell he is. Brian Ashcraft

Thanks, Nathan

Just like "Victoria Bitter" means "water," "Hungry Jack's" is Australian for "Burger King." Nintendo of Australia has teamed up with the Ozzie eatery to help celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros. and is giving away character keychains with Kids Club Meals. Customers get a choice of Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach or Donkey Kong and also are entered into a draw to win a DS Lite and a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Doesn't Peach look totally pissed off? I kinda felt that way when I realized Hungry Jack's even tastes like Burger King. Brian Ashcraft

Thanks, Obee

Leggy Peach. Midgets in costume. Camel-toed mutant Mario. Bowser as a centaur. No, it's not Super Mario Bros. via Fellini or Pasolini, but might as well be. Reader Aaron found "unusual depiction" of the Mario universe at retro shop Game Tanteidan in Osaka's Den-Den Town. It's difficult to see what the print outs say, but they seem to track Mario's rise to fame and fortune. Strangeness abound sure, but what baffles me isn't why some Japanese store has tacked this up, but why Mario is driving Mario? Brian Ashcraft

Luigi's Suspiciously Flat Groin [Kotaku]

Advertised as "Halloween Costumes for Adults", these are clearly left over costumes from the late 80's pornography classic Super Mario Fuckers. At what point in a relationship do you feel comfortable asking your girlfriend to dress up as Princess Daisy as you, Mario, check her plumbing? Sometimes I lament that I will never have a love as pure as that: hell, I keep on having to claim to my girlfriend that my accidental slips an inch down are caused by a lack of depth perception and are not, in fact, exactly what they are... sneaky attempts at much-protested back door entry. Florian Eckhardt

Gameland Plumber [3Wishes.com] (via Alice)

Gamer love doesn't merely cuddle close to the homerotic. After we posted the tattoo of a Hot Topic employee's Luigi tattoo and explained that it was a testament to his passion for his best friend (their love ripped asunder by different college acceptance letters), Kotakuite David S. wrote us:

My wife, Erin, and I got married on April 23rd this year. I"m a huge gamer, and she actually reviews games for a living! (yeah, I know, it's really sweet). For our evening party, rather than a dance or something humiliating like that, we went to Dave & Buster's for our after-party to celebrate that night with our friends. So we could be seen, we made these really nifty t-shirts. I'm the one on the left, if you didn't figure that one out. :p

Too bad. The one on the right is rub-a-dub-dub. Anyway, nothing says 'hep couple' like a husband and wife dressed in matching t-shirts. And when those t-shirts are gaming themed? Le Mario Juste! Florian Eckhardt

These cookie jars date from the Super Mario World era and not only store snacks, but also play music when opened. Finely crafted painted porcelain, Peach (above) and Toad (after the jump) were located on eBay. Mario and Luigi are still M.I.A., presumably wondering around Mushroom Kingdom, pouncing on Koopa cookies. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [SMBHQ] Thanks, Chilly!

Game tees? Sure. Shoes? No prob. But boxer-shorts? An eBay seller has these Nintendo drawers available for purchase at US $12.99. Eh, thanks, but no thanks. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [Destructoid]

On that note, Toybane has done a comparison between the original Japanese box art for Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS and its American counterpart. As it turns out, while the Japanese cover captures Princess Peach in the middle of a full-on episode of hysteria, the American box art is a lot less misogynistic, doing its damnedest to portray Peach as a bubblegum pink, Sigourney-Weaver-type heroine.

Super Princess Peach & The Male Gaze Part 1: A Portrait of a Distressed Damsel [Toybane]
Related: Super Princess Peach: One Moody Game

Apparently, the Peach is a mock-up, a fake or something. Those cartridges so glow in the dark.

More Here [Fami-Pachi]

The Sex in Video Games Conference is calling for porn.. I mean art submissions for their Machinima Art Show. Ten of the submissions will be chosen and displayed over the course of the two day event at the Lodge at Union Square, Kensington Park Hotel in San Fran.

The machinima show is meant to highlight the art form and its ability to create film that showcases the melding of sex and games AKA Machinima Porn.

Right, here's my concept: G-Man, Headcrabs and a six pack of peach wine coolers. Now someone go direct this masterpiece.

Call for Submissions [IGDA]

The posable Princess Peach dropped a note to ask for commenting privilege on Kotaku and point out that she is, in fact, not a man. Turn's out she's not just a COS player willing to make a buck with non-sultry poses either, she also runs a Princess Peach fan site.
I never doubted you Peach, never.

Peach Paradise [Staff]

Our Alice points to one of her favorite eBay sellers, a Nintendo fangirl named "Princess Peach." The pink one is auctioning off photos of herself in full Peach gear. She's even offering poses on demand.

For a set charge of 9.75 I will perform a pose of your choice and the photo is yours to keep! You may want me to mimic a classic Peach action or hold up a sign with your name on saying how much YOU rock! Or perhaps you require a picture for your website or blog? I have Nintendo-themed props such as huge chain chomps, bullet bills and bob-ombs! The possibilities are endless! You may even want to fool people into thinking I m your girlfriend!

(I will perform NON-adult poses only. One photo per request).

Say, isn't that a fridge in the background?

Strike a Pose [eBay] via Wonderland

Is it just me or is it a tad misogynistic to finally unfetter the perpetual damsel in distress Princess Peach and make her a protagonist, only to arm her with a parasol and her mood swings?

I like Princess Peach, it's a great game, a throw-back to the side-scrolling, quasi-puzzler action of all the great Super Mario Bros. adventures, but why undermine the positive message with such an odd choice of "power ups?"

In the game you play as Princess Peach, finally not the damsel but the heroine, out to save Mario from the clutches of the princess-grabbing Bowser. Instead of outfitting the princess in some sort of clothes that would make it possible for her to, I don't know, walk five steps without falling on her face, they have her wearing a full ball gown and tiara. She also carries a parasol that she can thwack and poke enemies with. But her main weapon is her unstable personality.

The touch screen has pictures of four moods on it, when you touch one she gains an ability for a short period of time. Tap the angry face and things explode in fire around her. Tap the sad face and jets of tears sprout from her face. This may sound familiar to those of you who are in long-term relationships or married.

Despite the odd assortment of weapons, the game is actually quite a solid side-scroller created in the grand tradition of all the Mario brother games that have come before it.

The four power-ups (you can also be excited or happy) allow the game designers to come up with some interesting baddies and ways to get around them.

At first glance, Super Princess Peach may seem like a game for children, but play it for a few minutes and you'll come to realize that it's one of the better traditional Nintendo games to come down the pipe in some time. But it's disappointing that Nintendo finally turned Princess Peach into a heroine only to seemingly poke fun at womanhood.

Super Princess Peach for $34.99 [Amazon]

Black (PS2, Xbox)
Criterion's highly anticipated shooter that's garnered below-great scores shoots its way into retail. Will you still pick it up?

Super Princess Peach (DS)
Peach takes a leading role to save Mario and Luigi, armed with nothing but her umbrella and copious amounts of tears.

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II (PC)
EA's second LOTR real time strategy game ships with new Elven and Dwarven races, plus a create-a-hero mode.

24: The Game (PS2)
Fans of Jack Bauer and creepy, zombie-like renders will surely snag this semi-real time, high-production-value action title.

Ys: The Ark of Napishtim (PSP)
The PSP port of last year's Ys for the PlayStation 2 adds more mini-games and more portability to the long running RPG series.

FIFA Street 2 (DS, Gamecube, PS2, PSP, Xbox)
Yo, yo! New locations, new tricks, new arcadey soccer action — it's FIFA Street 2, cuz.

Final Fight: Streetwise (PS2, Xbox)
"Gritty" update to the classic arcade beat-em-up. I'll leave it at that.

What are you getting this week? Let us know in the comments.

I'm looking for a new DS game, but its just so freakin' pink! And you have to cry! There's no crying in video games!

Super Princess Peach [YouTube]

The break down includes a Famicom-themed Game Boy Micro, Super Princess Peach for the DS and the much anticipated real-time strategy pinball game Odama for the Game Cube.

Here s the full list:

DS
Electroplankton: Jan. 9
True Swing Golf: Jan 23
Super Princess Peach: Feb 27
Metroid Prime: Hunters: March 20

GBA
Drill Dozer: Feb. 6
Talkes of Phantasia: March 6

GameCube
Chibi-Robo: Feb. 6
Odama: March 6

Hardware
Mario Kart DS: Nov. 25
Famicom Micro: Nov. 28 (The $100 Micro will come with a $10 gift certificate for a select GBA game.)

A female protagonist with an umbrella is on a mission to rescue her kidnapped friend. Nintendo's sure lax with those third party developers, because My Melody Dreamland has the exact same plot as Super Princess Peach. One major difference: this game is gonna stink.

In Reservoir Dogs, director Quentin Tarantino lays out his "Like a Virgin" theory. The Madonna song is about a girl that's knocked boots one too many times. Then she meets this one dude, and it's like her first time. Hence, like a virgin.

We're not talking about big dicks here. We're talking about having your blown and yer teeth kicked in. Every memory of playing Super Mario when I was seven years old came flooding back with Princess Peach. The excitement of discovery I found in those early Mario games has been matched. This time around, we're looking for a kidnapped Mario. The only question I have is why did Nintendo wait so damn long to give Peach her own game?

Maybe, we've become more enlightened. Maybe, the lines are blurring. When I was thirteen, I never would've picked up this game. It stars a girl, but she doesn't get naked. She gets emotional. She gets happy, cries, has fun and gets really pissed. (I told Luke that I would not mention "PMS" to which he responded: "Isn't it Yoshi's Island with boobs?") In the game's simplicity, there is complexity of emotions. I like that if I cry, I can make a plant grow. I like that getting pissed causes me to incinerate a bridge. I like that these emotions not only further game play but provide psychological insight.

Nintendo was smart enough to realize that this didn't have to be a 3D adventure. I've always been a side-scroll fan, and here it works and blatantly reminds players of early NES software. Nintendo's created the first truly post-modern game. It is commenting not only on Nintendo history, but the history of gender roles in gaming and even fairytales. It's always a hero saves the princess, and not the other way around. Mario saved Peach over and over again, not simply out of obligation, but out of his feelings for her. Now, the reverse is true in gaming's greatest love story.

We're not rescuing a woman in another machismo adventure. We're rescuing a man. (And not some weakling either.) Having Peach rescue the most powerful character in the universe says something about her status. Saving Yoshi (or Luigi) would be a slap in the face. There's a story that Tarantino asked Madonna directly if her song was about dicks. She replied, "No Quentin, it's about love." Same's true about Super Princess Peach.

Some new screens of the upcoming Nintendo DS Princess Peach title showed up at the British Gaming Blog and I can't get over how impressive its looking. Described at the blog as having the "ideas and feeling of Super Mario World but with an ambience of Kirby," if this game plays as good as it looks, Nintendo is going to have another winner for the DS.

Princess Peach New Screens [British Gaming Blog]

A costume company is selling Mario and Princess Peach outfits. People can pretend that they pick the set up for Cosplay, but we know the only reason someone would buy them is to finally have a chance to eat the mushroom with a real live Princess Peach. Just make sure none of your buddies rustle up a Bowser costume.

Mario Costume [I m a Human Inbox]