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Nintendo Loses Domain Dispute for Wii U

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Earlier this year Nintendo wanted to acquire “wiiu.com” but found that it was already taken. Nintendo went ahead and filed a complaint for cybersquatting. Unfortunately for Nintendo, Fusible is reporting that they have lost the dispute and will not be able to take control of the domain.

Nintendo will likely have to fork over some serious cash in order to own the domain and what makes this worse is that prior to the complaint, the domain was up for auction. This is just one of many battles that major companies have had with domain holders over the years. It kind of makes you wonder why these businesses don’t do a little more research before they name a product.

Mobile Sonic Games Get Anniversary Discount

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In celebration of Sonic’s 22nd anniversary, Sega is offering up all mobile versions of Sonic the Hedgehog for $0.99. Yes, that covers all of them and the deal is available across three mobile platforms including the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon App Store. The sale price is only for a limited time, so if you’re interested you should probably pick them up soon.

Many of the classic Sonic games have been updated to improve overall performance and some have even grabbed a few new features. Well worth the $0.99 if you ask me!

Featured App: Dumb Ways to Die

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This app is silly and fun. You have little characters at a train station that you help get through silly levels of “dumb ways to die”. You only get three lives and a limited amount of time in each round, the longer you live the game picks up speed and becomes tricky. The more you help them survive, the more points you get to unlock other characters.

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Dumb Ways to Die is a public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia to promote rail safety. The campaign went viral through sharing and social media starting in November 2012. You can visit their website dumbwaystodie.com to download the song, watch the video and read some tips on safety.

You’ve seen the video – now the lives of those adorably dumb characters are in your hands!

Download the FREE game now to protect private parts from piranhas, wipe up vomit, feed rattlesnakes, and most importantly – be safe around trains.

Get it here at the App Store.

A Lego Mars Rover on the Way

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Lego is just plain awesome and their reviews are exciting as they determine which projects will make it as an official Lego® set. It’s exciting to finally see the results of the Fall 2012 LEGO® Review.

It looks like interplanetary exploration oriented geeks can rejoice as Lego® will be releasing a Mars Curiosity set, as it was the winner over others such as Portal 2 and the UCS Sandcrawler from Star Wars. The model was created by Stephen Pakba an JPL engineer who really worked on the actual Mars Rover team! In the video announcement they did mention that they are still considering doing a Portal 2 set, which is also pretty awesome, hopefully we see both.

Thanks to Gizmodo for the Update.