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Fast-food chain’s latest kid’s combo promotion includes “free” Mario, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong toys.

With Nintendo’s Wii promising to put the “active” back in “interactive entertainment,” it’s only fitting that the publisher’s marketing tie-ins leading up to the console launch should have a similar focus. So for fast-food chain McDonald’s current Nintendo-themed promtion, the Big Mac monger is offering one of six freebie “active toys” with its Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals, each one featuring Mario, Donkey Kong, or Yoshi. The toys include a Mario-shaped ball for playing catch, a flying disc, an inflatable Mario Power Tennis mallet with ball, and more.

The emphasis on activity is part of the fast-food chain’s ongoing effort to reform its long-suffering public image when it comes to healthy eating. According to the company, “The ‘Take the Mario Challenge’ Happy Meal and Mighty Kids Meal event is part of McDonald’s ongoing commitment to helping guests better understand the keys to living balanced, active lives. This initiative…underscores the importance of eating right and staying active, and includes a wide variety of programming for guests of all ages.”

Is McDonald’s struggle to become a ‘healthy’ more-Subway enviroment working? Some say yes, some say no. A lad by the name of TheGamer says No.

Readers, what is YOUR opinion? Don’t be shy, leave a comment.

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Only hours after retailers shut down preorders for the 400,000 launch-day PlayStation 3s, auction sites such as eBay exploded with offerings averaging $1,500 a pop.Last November, eBay was full with listings for the hard-to-come-by Xbox 360. Now, enterprising auctioners have been placing preorders for the PlayStation 3 and then immediately preselling the console themselves for a huge profit on eBay.

Last November, eBay was full with listings for the hard-to-come-by Xbox 360. Now, enterprising auctioners have been placing preorders for the PlayStation 3 and then immediately preselling the console themselves for a huge profit on eBay.GameStop announced yesterday that preorders for Sony’s next-gen console were now sold out, with some stores only taking as few as 6 orders. Excited customers had been queuing for hours outside stores to pay their $100 deposit, which guarantees them one of the first 400,000 US-bound PS3s.

This isn’t the first time that canny consumers have taken advantage of a shortage in gaming hardware. Back in 2001, eBay was loaded with PS2s at highly inflated prices, with consoles changing hands in Europe for around £1,000 (about $1,800). Heck, I even remember somebody screwing with an SNES and trying to sell it as a PS2. I believe Jon was behind all of that. As previously mentioned, Xbox 360 preorders were being sold on from their original buyers for $1,500. Some deceitful sellers took advantage of desperate buyers by selling them photos of the Xbox 360 instead of the actual console.

The average going price for the PS3 on eBay today was also in the region of $1,500, although one hopeful seller had given his console a ‘buy-it-now’ price of $100,000. They hadn’t had any bids as of the time I’m posting this.

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Rockstar Games has never came out with an official online version of any Grand Theft Auto PC game, but since the start, GTA fans have been attempting to make their own third-party multiplayer versions of the games. It all started with GTA III. A group of people got together and attempted to create a modded version of the game allowing you to see other people’s cars. Hackers worked until they found out how to get YOUR player’s coordinates out on the net, and receive other’s X-Y coordinates also. Though this was very crude, it was the start of something that hundreds of thousands of people enjoy today. The development of GTA3-Online FINAL never got released, and was not focused on at all once it’s successor, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, was released for the PC. This time, though, hackers were able to get much further in their effort to make GTA an online multiplayer game.

    The first betas of “Multi-Theft Auto: Vice City”, or “MTA:VC” for short, were released. Though everyone looked like Tommy Vercetti, and everyone drove the same car, it was a definite start for the creators of this mod. Unfortunately, you could not take your player out of his car, and you were stuck driving around playing racing games, and so on. It was very hard to drive anyway, as the cars were not properly ’synced’ to other players, and all of your opponents cars would jump 10 miles at a time, while it appeared you were driving smoothly. Meanwhile, a different group of people followed the MTA:VC Team’s steps and created “Vice City-Multiplayer” aka “VC:MP”. However, in this variation of Vice City, you could actually get out of your car, and kill other players. As mentioned above, both MTA:VC and VC:MP were slow and buggy as heck, which made for gameplay almost as annoying as those Hoveround commercials (I didn’t waaanna do it!), the reeal action didn’t start until San Andreas was released for the PC.

The creators of both MTA:VC and VC:MP were extremelly excited to start messing with the game’s source, and see what they could cook up. Not so long after the release, both “MTA:SA” and “SA:MP” were in production. Many months later, both MTA:SA and SA:MP are in stable releases, and thousands of people are sitting at their computer right now, playing San Andreas online. MTA:SA still limits users to stay in their cars, but is now a GREAT racing component for San Andreas. SA:MP, on the other hand, lets you do virtually everything you can do in single player—online, with tons of others. Enhanced with IRC chat, money trading, banking, racing, and much more, GTA San Andreas is now better than ever.

If you have San Andreas for the PC, consider downloading MTA:SA or SA:MP. Remember to join the -=GAMER UNLIMITED SERVER=- on SA:MP! ;)

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