Anthony Dickens

Anthony Dickens

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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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  • UK Wii Sells 50,000 In 12 Hours

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    News UK Wii Sells 50,000 In 12 Hours

    Just in case you haven't heard already, Wii sold out very very quickly.

    Sorry, I'm playing news catch up today (yes, It's been one of those weeks) most of you will already know, but the Wii sold a whopping 50,000 units in the first 12 hours of launch, impressive. "Within just 12 hours of going on sale, the much anticipated launch of the...

  • Sega Announces Alien Syndrome

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    News Sega Announces Alien Syndrome

    "Completely re-designed from the ground up", Sega offer a new title for Wii RPG fans.

    Japanese gurus over at Sega hve today announced a new title that'll be released for both Wii and PSP, it comes in the form of Alien Syndrome a "Action RPG" no less, lets get to the PR: "Alien Syndrome offers two fast-paced action-RPG modes – the dramatic and...

  • Wii Has The Power...

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    News Wii Has The Power...

    ... Glove. Just in case you missed it, here's the brand spanking new Power Glove for Wii.

    When Wii was first announced, alot of people said "wait, isn't that just a power glove all over again?" Thankfully they were wrong, Wii has proved to accomplish exactly what the Power glove wanted to achieve on the NES over 15 years ago. It was only a matter of...

  • Know Your Mushrooms

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    News Know Your Mushrooms

    Getting abit sweaty whilst playing Wii Sports? GameStation have the answer, Nintendo sweatbands!

    Component cables seem to be somewhat like gold dust at the moment, mine finally arrived this morning. Fellow staff member Tom "Nanaki" Bowskill managed to hook me up with one of those MadCatz component cables, which seems to be doing a fine job. Tom...

  • Zelda DS: Delayed, Zelda Wii: In Development

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    News Zelda DS: Delayed, Zelda Wii: In Development

    Everyone's favourite Zelda newspaper, The Hylia reports on an article published in this months Game Informer magazine.

    Two peices of Zelda news in one nicely packaged news article. Firstly the bad news, Zelda DS aka Phantom Hourglass has been pushed back, doh. "Game Informer is reporting that Phantom Hourglass has not just been pushed back to...

  • Those Wacky Japanese

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    News Those Wacky Japanese

    Hold the press! Japanese man plays with his Wii on a 1.5" TV.

    We love those Japanese games designers, they make some great crazy games but how to they actually come up with the ideas in the first place? It's probably a culture thing. Just when you thought you'd seen it all, this "little" video comes outta no-where, its a Japanese gamer playing his...

  • Celebrity Mii Competition

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    Competition Celebrity Mii Competition

    Jason over at kottke.org has devised a Celebrity Mii Contest, create a Celeb Mii and win a game, its that simple!

    It seems to be quite a craze at the moment, creating your favourite people in Mii form. We've been passing around lots of celebs over the past few days, now you have a chance to win a Mii contest! It's like a 21st century beauty contest...

  • Opera Going Live Dec 23rd?

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    News Opera Going Live Dec 23rd?

    We've heard a rumour that the Internet Channel on Wii will launch on the 23rd of December, just in time for Christmas.

    Even thought the console ships with a "lite" version of Opera (the Wii Shop uses this) the general Internet Channel isn't yet live. The good folk over at Wii Spin have received word that the software will become available later this...

  • Amazon.co.uk Get More Wiis

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    News Amazon.co.uk Get More Wiis

    The mammoth UK retailer has announced more Wii consoles will go on sale at 3pm today.

    Some of you unlucky gamers that still haven't got a Wii have just been given another chance to snap one up, the email went out about half an hour ago with the consoles going on sale in just over an hour. "Dear Nintendo fan, Great news! We've managed to get our...

  • Zelda Twilight Princess

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    Your View Zelda Twilight Princess

    Launching a console with a new Zelda game, how does it measure up?

    It's been a very long time coming, but you should finally have Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in your hands and your swinging your Wiimote around. After the "different" style of Wind Waker, how do you find the graphics of Twilight Princess, back on form? Have you missed the look...

  • Wii Sports

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    Your View Wii Sports

    Bundled with the console, everyone has an opinion

    Wii finally launches and everyone should of booted up Wii Sports by now. Which does it best for you, Tennis? Boxing? Bowling? Golf? Baseball? Have you tried Wii Fitness? Are you classed as an old man (ReInstall) or a fit athelete (pHaT-aNt_)? Tell us about your experience with Wii Sports, what you...

  • Wii Launch, London

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    News Wii Launch, London

    England awakens to a Wii winter wonderland, the Wii is out, the Wii is out. Do you have yours?

    Hundreds of people turned out on a bitterly cold London night to witness the birth of Wii into the UK. Gamers were treated to the "talents" of Ian Wright, Ricky Hatton and Nell McAndrew. New York had the Wii Segway, London had the Wii bus, a classic London...

  • Wii Excels In The US

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    News Wii Excels In The US

    Zelda reaches sales of 410,000 copies in the US, 87% of Wii owners snapping it up on launch day.

    Nintendo announce the sales figures for the first 8 days of Wii in the US, selling 600,000 with a total of 1,000,000 to be available by the end of 2006. "In only the first seven days of availability after its Nov. 19 launch, Wii sold nearly half a...

  • Your Wii Check List

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    Feature Your Wii Check List

    The countdown is almost over, you have only 24 hours to prepare to Wii.

    If you've not already pre-ordered your console, you could be in for a tough fight to get your hands on a Wii for launch day. If your in London maybe you should head down to the official launch at HMV as they should have a huge pile of Wii's. Otherwise you might find yourself...

  • Queues Form In Oxford Street London

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    News Queues Form In Oxford Street London

    Nintendo fans flock to a rainy London HMV store in anticipation of tonight's midnight launch of Wii.

    If your reading this, your probably not already at the HMV store, queues are already starting to swell and its likely your already too late to get a console. "Excited shoppers are already forming queues outside shops across the country to ensure...

  • SSX Blur Exclusive To Wii

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    News SSX Blur Exclusive To Wii

    Beauty

    EA have released the high resolution trailer and a snippet of information about its upcoming snowboard sequel, SSX Blur.. Developed once again by EA Montreal, part of the EA Sports BIG label, SSX Blur will be built exclusively for Wii utilising the control system that can only be offered by the Wiimote. "We wanted to take the soul of the...

  • Best Of Gamecube

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    Feature Best Of Gamecube

    Gone, but not forgotten

    As we count down to the release of Wii, we look back at our favourite moments on Gamecube. The Gamecube has been some what of a mixed bag, it's provided us with some classic moments but maybe its let us down, once more, with third party titles. It's pretty safe to say its done better than the Nintendo 64. We expect alot of...

  • Game Head Reveal SSX Blur

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    News Game Head Reveal SSX Blur

    As promised, Reggie appears on Spike TV's "Game Head" show to help unveil the next SSX title from EA.

    You may remember last week we heard that Reggie was to appear on Game Head, not to disappoint our main man was there with some random presenter that was extremely excited to show him the first footage of Electronic Arts latest snowboarding game, SSX...

  • Crash Boom Bang! (DS)

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    Review Crash Boom Bang! (DS)

    Crash landing on DS, mini games a plenty, but how does this measure up to previous Crash titles?

    From what I remember Crash Bandicoot was pretty much written off from the first moment when he landed onto PlayStation consoles all those years ago, at least by the non-Sony crowd, he's no Mario or Sonic, right? To his credit, Crash re-appeared again and...

  • Wii Say: Konnichiwa Japan!

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    News Wii Say: Konnichiwa Japan!

    Nintendo's homeland, the land of the future finally gets to play Wii and boy are they excited.

    Japan is somewhat of an oddball market, fans are very loyal for long periods of time but then suddenly switch allegiance. Nintendo have been on the cold side the past 5 years, Gamecube did okay, but the PS2 reigned supreme throughout its life. But today,...

  • SSX Wii To Debut On "Game Head" With Reggie

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    News SSX Wii To Debut On "Game Head" With Reggie

    Reggie renews his rivalry with "Geoff" on Spike!'s Game Head show, set to air this coming Friday.

    Also showing on this weeks show is a world exclusive trailer for the previous un-announced "SSX Wii" from Electronic Arts, apparently even Reggie himself hasn't seen this trailer. Here's the blurb about this weeks show: "In early February of 2006,...

  • UK Wii Importers Can Use Credit Cards Afterall

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    News UK Wii Importers Can Use Credit Cards Afterall

    All you have to do it set your country to "Brazil" and it'll accept your credit card details, excellent!

    As a UK-er who imported a Wii console, the only thing that didn't work straight out of the box was buying Wii Points via a credit card from within the Wii Shop channel, the solution was to simply buy the pre-paid ones and enter the number - which...

  • Nintendo Says: Don't Let Go Of The Wiimote

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    News Nintendo Says: Don't Let Go Of The Wiimote

    Nintendo respond to the dumb gamers that forgot to hold onto their Wiimotes, its that simple people!

    Just incase you didn't realise, when you swing your Wiimote around, you shouldn't let go of it. All sorts of Wii-accidents can happen, from simple TV explosions to broken noses. Please be careful with your Wii! "Wear the wrist strap. Make sure...

  • HMV Chosen As Partner For Wii Launch

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    News HMV Chosen As Partner For Wii Launch

    Launch event to take place at midnight in HMV, Oxford Street with some random celebrities to boot.

    Nintendo UK has today announced it will officially partner with HMV when it launches its new console, Wii, at midnight on 7th/8th December 2006. "The action kicks off from 11pm at HMV, 150 Oxford Street, London with the chance for everyone to come...