Anthony Dickens

Anthony Dickens

Founder & CEO

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Anthony launched Nintendo Life in late 2005 and has remained at the helm ever since. He loves Nintendo but sometimes gets confused and tells everyone that F-Zero X is the best game. We've tried getting him help, but alas...

Growing up in the 1990's he developed a passion for video games by playing Game Boy, Super Nintendo and PC games. With a keen interest in the Internet and IT he fell in love with software development and programming, becoming a professional website developer in the early 2000s.

Anthony honed his craft as a developer and was director of the website development company Cuttlefish for nearly 15 years before shifting his sole focus to Hookshot's family of websites, Nintendo Life, Push Square and Pure Xbox.

Today, Anthony is both the Founder & CEO of Hookshot but also its lead developer and continues to develop the bespoke CMS that sits under the family of websites.

More recently, Anthony helped conceptualise and launch Hookshot's latest website, Time Extension along with Damien McFerran.

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Mon 7th, November 2005
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  • Time to stop cooking, its Gardening Mama time!

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    News Time to stop cooking, its Gardening Mama time!

    505 announce a new game in the Mama series the non-cooking based Gardening Mama, scheduled for DS Spring next year.

    Gardening Mama sees Mama heading into the great outdoors to turn an empty garden into a tranquil paradise. Green-fingered players use the touch screen to dig holes, plant seeds, mix fertiliser and ultimately grow a range of fruits,...

  • SEGA reveal MadWorld Cover

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    News SEGA reveal MadWorld Cover

    Ultra gore-fest MadWorld now has some cover artwork, its pretty cool, but will this game ever get released?

    MADWORLD is an inventive third-person action game exclusively for Wii. Produced by Atsushi Inaba, MADWORLD has a unique black and white style, depicting an incredibly sharp backdrop that straddles graphic novels and 3D worlds. Questions have...

  • X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE

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    Review X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE

    We've finally got our hands on a third party product that has seen alot of interest with our readers, but what is the verdict?

    With X-OOM Media Centre for Wii™ enjoy your favourite collections of movies, photos, and music on your TV, via your Wii™. No need to transfer them to CD, DVD or other devices. All you need is your PC, your Wii™ and a...

  • Samba De Amigo (Wii)

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    Review Samba De Amigo (Wii)

    Amigo and Linda crack out the maracas, it's time to Samba!

    It's a fact that summer is now over, it's getting colder outside and the clocks are going back. However SEGA want to change all that, releasing Samba de Amigo we can cling onto that summer atmosphere allowing us all to samba all winter long. Samba de Amigo is an incredibly sunny, happy, up...

  • Wii Music (Wii)

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    Review Wii Music (Wii)

    Grab yourself a WiiMote, it's time you became a maestro!

    Miyamoto is Nintendo's legendary games developer, he's responsible for the majority of Nintendo's success over the past 30 years and proves a lot of people wrong time and time again. The release of Wii Music takes me back to earlier in the year, when Wii Fit was first released. Wii Fit was...

  • Naruto Brings the Fight Back to Wii

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    News Naruto Brings the Fight Back to Wii

    Atlus announce the release of Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 in the US,

    NARUTO: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 is set to provide players with quality fighting game mechanics and a fast-paced gameplay experience on Wii. Set after Sasuke leaves the Hidden Leaf Village to gain more power from Orochimaru, the title offers a slew of playable...

  • Weekly Virtual Console Round Up (22nd Oct)

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    News Weekly Virtual Console Round Up (22nd Oct)

    Nintendo's Virtual Console shop has 5 new releases this week, Mayhem in Monsterland (C64), Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou (TG-16), Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition (MD), Space Harrier (SMS), Digital Champ: Battle Boxing (TG-16).

    Mayhem in Monsterland: System: Commodore 64Release Date: Fri 17th Oct (EU) Mayhem is an unhappy dinosaur, as...

  • Weekly Virtual Console Round Up (15th Oct)

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    News Weekly Virtual Console Round Up (15th Oct)

    Nintendo's Virtual Console shop has 2 new releases this week, Secret of Mana (SNES), Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition (MD).

    Secret of Mana: System: Super NintendoRelease Date: Mon 13th Oct (US) Good and evil battle for a young warrior’s heart. There is one force in the universe that keeps good and evil in perfect balance. It is called...

  • Sonic and those nasty Black Knights

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    News Sonic and those nasty Black Knights

    SEGA's working Sonic hard this year, he's gotta finish two major Sonic titles with one of them exclusive to Wii, Sonic and the Black Knight.

    Created by Sonic Team in Japan, this innovative game takes Sonic into a medieval world and arms him with a sword to aid in his effort to save the day. Sonic and the Black Knight will provide Sonic fans with an...

  • Weekly Virtual Console Round Up (8th Oct)

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    News Weekly Virtual Console Round Up (8th Oct)

    Nintendo's Virtual Console shop has 3 new releases this week, Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing (MD), Earthworm Jim (MD), Mario Golf (N64).

    Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing: System: Sega Mega DriveRelease Date: Mon 6th Oct (US), Fri 3rd Oct (EU) It’s a dark and stormy night in the kingdom of Granseal when a thief steals two jewels from the Tower...

  • Remember the Amazing Rolo and his Wii Loop Machine?

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    News Remember the Amazing Rolo and his Wii Loop Machine?

    Nutty digital artist Yann Seznec popped up on popular British TV show, Dragons Den, looking for investors for his Wii Loop Machine business.

    We featured the Wii Loop Machine sometime last year, it looked like a pretty good idea at the time and clearly the developer is trying to move things along. Look out, Miyamoto. A Scottish independent games...

  • Wii HD in 2011?

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    News Wii HD in 2011?

    More rumours surround the hardware successor of Wii, something we know Nintendo is working on behind the scenes.

    According to the story, Nintendo has been showing off the new system to game developers and publishers, and the set date for this device is in 2011. While our sources are reluctant to be too specific about “Wii HD,” they have been...

  • Wii Storage Solution - Not as good as it sounds?

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    News Wii Storage Solution - Not as good as it sounds?

    Nintendo announce a "direction" of what they will do to fix the Wii's memory problem, but is it actually any good?

    We have been listening to the customers, and we have been trying to come up with the solution that will not sacrifice the security nature of Wii but will cater to our customers' convenience. We will need more time to tackle it. But the...

  • Play On Wii - European Update

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    News Play On Wii - European Update

    Eurogamer have uncovered some more titles, with Nintendo UK suggesting Metroid Prime 1 & 2 are to get the make over.

    Nintendo UK has told Eurogamer that Wii reworkings of GameCube titles Pikmin 1 and 2, Metroid Prime 1 and 2 and Mario Tennis will all be released in Europe next year. Also on the cards for remake treatment are Chibi Robo and Donkey...

  • Wario Destroys YouTube

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    News Wario Destroys YouTube

    Nintendo's latest advert for Wario Land: Shake It! literally shakes and breaks YouTube, check it out.

    Wario receives an antique globe and telescope that allow him to travel to the once-idyllic Shake Dimension, now conquered by the tyrannical pirate, the Shake King. With the assistance of his longtime rival, Captain Syrup, he must rescue the Merfles,...

  • Nintendo Announce 5 New Wii Games

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    News Nintendo Announce 5 New Wii Games

    Nintendo's Conference did have a few nice announcements, not all for the DS. Sin & Punishment returns... finally.

    The following five games were all announced for the first time at last weeks Nintendo Conference, being a Japanese shin-dig details are still quite thin on the ground, but here's what we know: Sin & Punishment 2 (Nintendo) 2009The...

  • Play On Wii Selection

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    News Play On Wii Selection

    Nintendo also announce that a number of original Gamecube games are to be re-developed with Wii specific controls and re-released on Wii.

    Furthermore, we are completely redesigning seven GameCube titles so that, starting from the end of this year, we will launch them as Wii titles. Our research has revealed that, due to the fact that the GameCube...

  • Introducing... Nintendo DSi

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    News Introducing... Nintendo DSi

    Nintendo update the DS for the second time with the new and improved DSi model.

    This is why we now introduce you to Nintendo DSi as the new member to Nintendo DS platform. For Nintendo DSi, naturally, we have added a number of new functions. Also, we have made some enhancements on the existing DS by listening to our consumers voices. I will explain...

  • Nintendo Conference 2008 Fall

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    News Nintendo Conference 2008 Fall

    Thursday saw Nintendo president address the media in Japan for Nintendo's Conference 2008 fall, announcing alot of new games and importantly a new DS model, the DSi.

    Satori Iwata took to the stage amoungst flashing lights infront of an eagally awaiting audience, he was about to reveal what Nintendo had in store for the next 6 months. There was quite...

  • Puzzler Kororinpa gets another outing

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    News Puzzler Kororinpa gets another outing

    HUDSON decide that we've not had enough of Kororinpa and decide that a sequel is the only way to fix the problem, due next spring.

    The sequel to Kororinpa: Marble Mania, Marble Saga: Kororinpa is full of new levels for gamers to explore, 4-person multiplayer gameplay, tons of customization features, the ability to connect and compete online and the...

  • Nintendo scoops British Technology awards

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    News Nintendo scoops British Technology awards

    We're British and apparently we all think Nintendo are great, so why not report it as some news.

    The Awards – which have been voted for online by the general public through www.britishtechnologyawards.com and by readers of Computeractive and Personal Computer World – have been created to offer a snapshot of the country’s digital lifestyle...

  • European DS Winter Lineup

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    News European DS Winter Lineup

    Nintendo of Europe also announce a list of DS games that should arrive before the end of the year.

    Wipe your eyes again, drink some red bull because its another long list: Hell’s Kitchen (Ubisoft) 25th September 2008 Make 10: A Journey of Numbers (Nintendo) 26th September 2008 Shaun the Sheep (D3 Publisher of Europe) 26th September 2008 SimCity...

  • European Wii Winter Lineup

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    News European Wii Winter Lineup

    Nintendo of Europe release an updated list of release dates for the games we'll all be playing until the end of the year.

    Wipe your eyes, this might take a while to read: Runaway the Dream of the Turtle (Focus Home Interactive) 25th September 2008 Wild Earth: African Safari (Majesco / Codemaster) 25th September 2008 Family Trainer (Namco Bandai)...

  • Wii Music primed and dated

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    News Wii Music primed and dated

    Nintendo announce that Wii Music will hit the stage this October in the US and November in Europe.

    Creating fun for all the family, this fall will see the arrival of Wii Music. Whether you are a music maestro or taking your first musical steps, this new title for Wii will have the whole family creating unique musical performances together with over...