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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  • Nintendo Of America Goto The Movies

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    News Nintendo Of America Goto The Movies

    Nintendo setup shop at the Sundance film festival, apparently trying to attract new customers.

    Perhaps the Nintendo of America staff were getting abit bored, not a lot of new games to kick around the office. With this, they decided to go to the Sundance film festival which screens some of the movies we'll be watching this year. Why were Nintendo at...

  • Nintendo Wants Your Brain

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    News Nintendo Wants Your Brain

    Is your brain actually any good? Apparently Nintendo will help you find out with its latest craze.

    The Japanese often bring us strange and wacky game ideas, but since the introduction of the Nintendo DS things just continue to get even weirder. First we had the cute Nintendogs, then the inspiring Electroplankton, now Nintendo want to control our...

  • The Players Choice: Resident Evil 4

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    News The Players Choice: Resident Evil 4

    Capcom produce another winner, now you'll be able to buy it in the budget range.

    Capcom have recently announced that its horror epic, Resident Evil 4, has been awarded inclusion into the silvery Players Choice range of classic titles. It comes as no real surprise, Resident Evil 4 was hugely successful on the Gamecube and now on the PS2. It's...

  • Redesigned Nintendo DS Gets Official Announcement

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    News Redesigned Nintendo DS Gets Official Announcement

    Those Nintendo guys have fooled us all yet again, DS Lite on the way very soon.

    Nintendo has officially announced the rumoured redesigned version of the Nintendo DS, the new "DS Lite" is more compact and should appear on Japanese shelves on 2nd March 2006. This comes just a few days after Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton dismissed rumours of a new DS...

  • Electroplankton To Surface In Europe

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    News Electroplankton To Surface In Europe

    The creative Nintendo DS title coming to European shores on April 21st 2006.

    Electroplankton has been some what of an anomaly in the gaming industry, ever since its demonstration at E3 last year we've been wondering when we'll be getting our musical hands on it. Toshio Iwai brings us inspired game -- its a creative game where you manipulate the...

  • Twilight Princess To Surpass Every Expectation

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    News Twilight Princess To Surpass Every Expectation

    Zelda character designer says Twilight Princess "more than you could possibly ever, ever, ever expect".

    Nintendo tease us, yet again, with some little bite-size slices of Twilight Princess information. Nintendo Power recently interviewed the game's character designer, Yoshiyuki Oyama, which has been transcribed by TheHylia.com. "Finally, no...

  • New Sonic Title For Revolution?

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    News New Sonic Title For Revolution?

    Recent reports suggest Sonic Team to work on Exclusive Sonic title for Nintendo Revolution.

    It's already reported that Sega are working on a "next gen" edition of Sonic for Xbox 360 and PS3, but new IGN.com suggest they're working on another title exclusive for Nintendo Revolution. This, we expect, would be something to do with the unique controller...

  • Classic Nintendo Catalog Uncovered

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    News Classic Nintendo Catalog Uncovered

    ProgressiveBoink uncover a trashy Nintendo catalog from 1990 and show us all the goodies.

    Several gaming blogs have uncovered a mystery Nintendo catalog from yesteryear. "The World Of Nintendo" shows a huge collection of "Gear + Stuff" that your grubby Nintendo hands might of had way back when. ProgressiveBoink.com have posted a "modified" edition...

  • Reggie's New Year Revolutions

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    News Reggie's New Year Revolutions

    Reggie tells News.com how it is right now and how its gonna be for the rest of the year.

    The media giant CNET News.com recently caught up with Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo America, and asked him about the company's plans for 2006. The lengthy interview talked about various aspects of Nintendo's...

  • Revolution Out In The US Before Christmas

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    News Revolution Out In The US Before Christmas

    Satoru Iwata reveals that the Revolution console will be in US homes for the holiday season.

    We've only really been told Nintendo's next console, codenamed Revolution, would be released sometime in 2006. Facts about an actual release date have been very vague and often unreliable. However, Gamespot today reported that in an interview from today's...

  • Resident Evil To Embrace The Revolution?

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    News Resident Evil To Embrace The Revolution?

    Capcom producer Minoru Nakai talks the possibility of a Resident Evil title on Revolution.

    Resident Evil has been one of the strongest brands in recent years in the video games industry. First appearing on the original PlayStation, Capcom have announced a 5th outing set to be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Currently there is no announcement...

  • ATI Talks Revolution Graphics

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    News ATI Talks Revolution Graphics

    Revolution Report sit down with ATI to talk about the upcoming Hollywood graphics card.

    The other day Revolution Report's Senior Editor, Shawn White, managed to snag an interview with ATI's Public Relations Manager, John Swinimer. ATI are responsible for the graphics card in the upcoming Nintendo Revolution, code-named "Hollywood", they also...

  • Nintendo Dismiss DS Redesign

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    News Nintendo Dismiss DS Redesign

    Shhtop. Although there is one in the pipeline, it's not ready yet.

    We recently reported the rumour of a redesigned Nintendo DS to emerge this week. The rumour was based on an article over at Lik-Sang.com - It seems the rumour was only that. Nintendo have now commented on the story, via GamesIndustry.biz and the alleged "reveal" date has passed...

  • Golden Globes Get Golden Gameboy Goodies

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    News Golden Globes Get Golden Gameboy Goodies

    Nintendo give those elite members of Hollywood a free golden Gameboy Micro.

    Movie award season is back, the Golden Globes have already come to pass. We've found out via 4colorrebellion that those lucky award presenters managed to snag themselves a free gold edition Gameboy Micro in an excessively expensive swag bag. The press release lists all the...

  • Uwe Boll Set To Direct Metal Gear Movie?

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    News Uwe Boll Set To Direct Metal Gear Movie?

    He's done it again, that legendary director claims hes all set to flop a Metal Gear movie.

    Only a few days after the onslaught of criticism on the BloodRayne movie, it seems Metal Gear fans need to be locked and loaded to shoot down the prospect of Uwe Boll directing a Metal Gear movie. "1UP confirmed with the director today that Boll has been...

  • Electroplankton Emerges From The Deep

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    News Electroplankton Emerges From The Deep

    US games can now buy this creative box from the Nintendo online store.

    January 9th saw the US release of the first "buy online only" game by Nintendo, Electroplankton. This title is the latest work by world-renowned Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai. Nintendo describe the game as "A new interactive music and media experience awaits – watch it,...

  • BloodRayne Movie Gets Slammed

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    News BloodRayne Movie Gets Slammed

    Uwe Bolls latest game adaptation project hits the big screen with a barrage of criticism.

    Uwe Boll is some what of a legend when it comes to film making, he's right up there with Paul WS Anderson of Resident Evil fame. For those of you poor souls that are unfamiliar with his work, watch his masterpiece "House Of The Dead" - yes, its based on the...

  • The Return Of Tetris

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    News The Return Of Tetris

    Nintendo DS to get updated version of Tetris, touch control and Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to boot.

    Nintendo yesterday announced the forthcoming Tetris title for Nintendo DS. Those funny shaped blocks are back in true DS style boasting lots of new features that are only possible with Nintendo DS hardware. The basis of the block based puzzle game will...

  • Metroid Spin-Offs On The Way?

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    News Metroid Spin-Offs On The Way?

    Nintendo look to extend the Metroid franchise with the new "Hunters".

    Metroid Prime Hunters, set to finally release on Nintendo DS early this year (March 20th if you have your diary to hand) might spark a few spin-off titles according to various sources. The eagerly awaited DS title will feature 6 new "bounty hunters" - no, not the chocolate bars -...

  • Gaming Convergence

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    News Gaming Convergence

    We take a look at convergence between PCs and Consoles. Will it ever happen?

    Reading up about the CES show over the weekend I noticed an article on The Register where Micheal Dell - of Dell Computers - attacked Microsoft's Xbox 360 with a wash of outrageous claims. "Dell dismissed Microsoft as a "so called high-definition gaming"...

  • National Geographic Kids Stir Revolution Rumours

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    News National Geographic Kids Stir Revolution Rumours

    The magazine prints lots of "facts" about the upcoming console, all made up of course.

    There was a blogging frenzy after National Geographic Kids magazine prints an article about the ways you can play certain games on the new Revolution controller. "National Geographic Kids Magazine was invited by the Big N to test out the top-secret Revolution...

  • Nintendo Dismisses Zelda & Revolution Controller Rumour

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    News Nintendo Dismisses Zelda & Revolution Controller Rumour

    Sad but true, Nintendo deem the previously reported article as "pure speculation".

    We've already reported that possibility of playing The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess on your Revolution console using the freehand controller, this however has today been dismissed by Nintendo as not the case. In a response to EuroGamer.net the big N squashed...

  • Miyamoto Calls New Zelda Game "Hardcore"

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    News Miyamoto Calls New Zelda Game "Hardcore"

    Could The Twilight Princess be the most violent and dark Zelda game so far?

    Shigeru Miyamoto steps into the spotlight again, this time talking to the UK's Maxim magazine about the egally awaited Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess game due for release later this year. Maxim asked Miyamoto if he was ever "tempted to throw Nintendo's life-long...

  • Nintendo Goes Back To Basics In 2006

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    News Nintendo Goes Back To Basics In 2006

    Shigeru Miyamoto speaks with Japanese favourite, Famitsu, about Odama and 2006.

    The lord that is Miyamoto took time out of his busy schedule to reflect on the coming year with the Japanese magazine. He talked about modern games and how we need to recapture that original feeling we had when playing those NES games. "Nintendo's theme for 2006...