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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  • Mario Galaxy Hit By Pirates

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    News Mario Galaxy Hit By Pirates

    Reports surface that Super Mario Galaxy has already been pirated, two weeks before its scheduled release of November 12th.

    Rumours and hearsay surfaced over the weekend which eventually led to the discovery that the game had indeed been leaked onto the internet. This comes just over a week after Nintendo raided a huge warehouse in Hong Kong, seizing...

  • Build Your Own Brawl Stage

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    News Build Your Own Brawl Stage

    Smash Bros DOJO has revealed that Smash Bros Brawl will indeed have a stage builder feature, allowing you to save them to SD cards.

    You can create your own stages this time?! No way. REALLY?! With a feature like that, won’t I be able to play this game forever?! Those who enjoy a little effort may be able to enjoy this stage builder for the rest of...

  • Samba Wii Amigo

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    News Samba Wii Amigo

    Sega officially announce Samba De Amigo for Wii, a brand new game, not a Virtual Console title as once rumoured.

    SEGA Europe Ltd. and SEGA of America, Inc. are excited to announce that they are bringing back Samba De Amigo™, the Dreamcast classic that helped to create the now-popular rhythm music genre. Created exclusively for the Wii™ home...

  • Metroid Prime 3 - Out Today!

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    News Metroid Prime 3 - Out Today!

    Today marks the release of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption in Europe, go and buy this game right now... trust us!

    Set six months on from the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on planet Aether, which saw the confrontation between Dark Samus, the Galactic Federation’s computer network has been hit by something which resembles a crippling virus, and only...

  • Teenage Zombies: Invasion Of The Alien Brain Thingies!

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    News Teenage Zombies: Invasion Of The Alien Brain Thingies!

    Watch Out!

    Ignition announce a new Zombie fest coming to DS early next year, they're not just zombies, they're Teenage Zombies!. The Earth is under attack by a horde of Alien Brain… uh…Thingys! Humans, succumbing to ray-guns, mind-control, and shiny flying saucers, have failed to defend their planet and let it fall easily into the clutches of...

  • New Blood New Trailer

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    News New Blood New Trailer

    Trauma Center Tuesday has rolled around again, this week Atlus have released a new trailer for the upcoming Wii sequel, New Blood.

    This week, TRAUMA CENTER TUESDAY launches the official trailer for Trauma Center: New Blood, which gives you a closer look at the new surgeries, characters, destinations, and 2-player Co-Op mode that will be part of the...

  • Super Mario Galaxy #4

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    Wallpaper Super Mario Galaxy #4

  • Halo DS

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    News Halo DS

    IGN's Matt C also shows us the Halo DS that he was piping on about for so long... and NO, it's not coming out, its been canceled.

    My Halo DS blog has haunted me since I posted it because many people were skeptical of my claims. I wouldn't make something like that up, of course, but that hardly silenced any of my critics. When my brother called me...

  • Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2 Gets Early Praise

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    News Medal Of Honor: Heroes 2 Gets Early Praise

    IGN's Matt C has declared that Heroes 2 "officially beats the pants off Metroid Prime 3 in the FPS control department" - strong words!

    "On another note, I just want to put it out there: Medal of Honor Heroes 2 officially beats the pants off Metroid Prime 3 in the FPS control department. This is the new Wii benchmark, period. Not even close...

  • Wii-hab

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    News Wii-hab

    Latest craze in the US, no not forest fires, its rehab companies now using Wii to help reabilite its "clients".

    There are a lot of things Barbara Everlith can't do since she suffered a stroke. Grasping objects with her left hand doesn't come as easily as it used to. She can't stand or walk as steadily as she once did. Everlith has learned how to...

  • Nintendo Raid Hong Kong Pirates

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    News Nintendo Raid Hong Kong Pirates

    Nintendo go Kung Fu Hustyle over "Supreme Factory Limited" in Hong Kong, seizing over 10,000 products in one go.

    At Nintendo's request, the Hong Kong High Court has intervened to help stop a global distribution operation involving game copying devices and modification chips ("mod chips") that violate its copyrights and trademarks in the Nintendo...

  • Zack & Wiki Out Now!

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    Feature Zack & Wiki Out Now!

    Yesterday marked the release of Zack & Wiki by Capcom in the US, perhaps the sleeper hit of the winter?

    Early reviews have been extremely positive towards the pirate themed adventure game with well known media giants IGN giving the game a impressive 9.0/10. Every once in a while we stumble upon a surprisingly excellent videogame - a title whose...

  • Famitsu Gives Super Mario Galaxy 38/40

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    Feature Famitsu Gives Super Mario Galaxy 38/40

    Near perfect scores from the imfamous Japanese magazine, could this be a Mario 64 beater we're all hoping for?

    Famitsu, the biggest video game magazine in Japan, are the first to review "the second coming", Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii, and they have given it a score of 38/40. 2 reviewers gave it a 9, and the other 2 a perfect 10. For...

  • Wii Sports Sweeps BAFTA Awards

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    News Wii Sports Sweeps BAFTA Awards

    Nintendo had a very successful night at this years Video Game BAFTA awards show with Wii Sports collecting 6 awards.

    Wii Sports dominated the evening, winning six out of the thirteen categories – Gameplay, Casual, Innovation, Multiplayer, Sports, and Strategy & Simulation. In this game of universal appeal, players use the remote as a tennis...

  • Zelda DS Hits Europe

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    News Zelda DS Hits Europe

    Nintendo have today seen the release of Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the DS, excellent!

    Get ready for an iconic debut as Link and the world famous Legend of Zelda series, makes its very first appearance on the Nintendo DS! Retaining the elements which have made the Zelda series such a worldwide hit, having sold over a staggering 52 million...

  • TimeSplitters 4 Coming To Wii?

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    News TimeSplitters 4 Coming To Wii?

    Free Radical confirms the existence of TimeSplitters 4 and its very very likely that we'll see a Wii version.

    It's back! Featuring even more crazy characters, devastating weapons and heart pounding hot sweaty action. It's funny, it's frantic and it'll do things you've never seen before! No, not naked girls, even better than that! We can't tell you...

  • EuRoPEaN NiGHTS In January

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    News EuRoPEaN NiGHTS In January

    Sega Europe confirm the delay of NiGHTS in Europe, pushing the game back nearly 3 months.

    SEGA® of Europe Ltd. today announced that NiGHTS™: Journey of Dreams for the Wii™ video game console will ship January 2008, in Europe. The title, a sequel to the critically-acclaimed hit NiGHTS, will allow players to take flight, unleash incredible...

  • Table Tennis Out Now

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    News Table Tennis Out Now

    Rockstar unleash their Tennis-em-up thriller onto the Wii console, out now in the US and in Europe from Friday.

    Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., is pleased to announce that Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis for the Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo is now available at North American retail...

  • Guilty Gear XX Accent Core

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    News Guilty Gear XX Accent Core

    Coming soon from 505 Games, the latest in the Guilty Gear series will be on Wii

    Guilty Gear XX Accent Core features over 20 deadly combatants and includes an alternate EX version of all the existing characters. On top of all this, the game also introduces two reinvented fighters, A.B.A. and Order-Sol, who have never been seen outside of Japan...

  • SEGA Superstars Tennis

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    News SEGA Superstars Tennis

    Sega set to release a new Tennis title on Wii, including all the familiar Sega characters ala Mario Smash Tennis.

    SEGA Superstars Tennis has over 15 playable SEGA idols including Sonic the Hedgehog, AiAi from Super Monkeyball fame, Ulala of Space Channel 5 and Amigo from Samba De Amigo. In addition to their own unique attributes, each character will...

  • E For All

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    News E For All

    Nintendo will be in attendance at this weekends E For All expo, running from the 18th through 21st of October.

    Thousands of video game fans will line up at the Los Angeles Convention Center to get their hands on the latest and greatest products, including Super Mario Galaxy™, Super Smash Bros.® Brawl and the Wii Zapper™ for Nintendo's Wii...

  • Wii Lightsaber Action At GameCity

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    News Wii Lightsaber Action At GameCity

    Be the first StarWars geek to weld a Wii Lightsaber (sound effects optional) in Nottingham, UK at this years "GameCity" festival on Oct 26th.

    "And so, 26th October is Star Wars day at GameCity. The festival is thrilled to be able to welcome Jonathan Smith, of developer Travellers Tales and visionary behind the Lego Star Wars phenomenon, which has...

  • Mario & Sonic: Mii Functionality & Dream Events

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    News Mario & Sonic: Mii Functionality & Dream Events

    New features

    Sega unearth some more details on Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, you'll be able to play as your Mii characters and also the addition of "Dream Events".. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has not only a massive line-up of real-life Olympic events, but SEGA can today proudly confirm that their much anticipated title also...

  • Nintendo Conference Fall 2007

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    News Nintendo Conference Fall 2007

    Nintendo update us with the latest information from Japan, the big news being Super Smash Bros. has been delayed until Feb 2008 in the US.

    On October 10th in Japan, Nintendo Company Ltd. president Satoru Iwata unveiled new products and initiatives for the world's best selling game systems, the Nintendo DS and Wii. Among the headlines are full online...