Buy McDonald's Happy Meals and Get exclusive Skylanders Swap Force toys

On March 28, 2014 McDonald's will include exclusive Skylanders Swap Force toys with Happy Meal in participating McDonald's branches in the United States and Puerto Rico.

The 8 characters of Skylanders Swap Force toys are: Eruptor, Chompy, Free Ranger, Freeze Blade, Magna Charge, Rattle Shake, Wash Buckler, and Prism Break.

The toys have their "unique play feature" but cannot be used in-game. Luckily, eligible purchases will also include $10 off coupons for the multiplatform Skylanders Swap Force Starter Pack and $1 off individual character figures. The Skylanders Happy Meals promo will run from March 28 up to April 24, 2014.

Enjoy your Skylanders toys and happy meals, check out McDonald's website for more information.

McDonald's Happy Meals Mario toys

Nintendo has partnered with McDonald's to have a range of Mario toys in Happy Meals, too bad it's only in UK.

On March 19, UK McDonald's will be releasing the Happy Meals Mario toys. The toys include  Mario and Luigi, along with Toad, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and a Super Mushroom power-up.

Nintendo said: "They want to inspire children to get active using some of Super Mario’s moves." "They will be encouraged to run, jump and complete active tasks set out by Mario and friends."

The McDonald's Happy Meals Mario toys will run up to April 29th in the UK. It not announced if it will also be offered in the US.

Jakks Pacific: Mario Kart ride-on

Check out the new Super Mario Kart Ride-On which is the real life replica of the kart that is seen in the Mario Kart 7 video game.

Jakks Pacific and Nintendo teamed up to launch the Mario Kart ride-on. The kart is called the Super Mario Kart Ride-On. The only thing that are missing are the Red Shells, Banana Skins and speed mushrooms. The good thing is, it comes with sound effects from the game.

The kart also led you to switch between on-road and off-road tyres.

Back to the Future Inspired Nike Power Laces coming in by 2015

Check this out a Nike kickers with Power laces! In the movie “Back to the Future Part II” it shows a glimpse of 2015 with flying cars, hoverboards, and Marty McFly’s self-tying kickers.

Nike has made the self-tying shoes into reality. Tinker Hatfield Nike's shoe designer said at the Jordan Brand’s Flight Lab in New Orleans that they are making a shoe that can lace itself just like Marty McFly’s self-tying sneakers.

Nike is planning to release this new product by 2015. Nike actually released a somewhat replica of the self-tying shoes in the movie back in 2011, it was a limited edition of 1500 pairs, however it didn’t feature power laces.

New PS4 Games on the Horizon

Sony has launched the Playstation 4 (PS4) in Japan last Friday February 21, 2014 and with its release trailers of new games that they will offer soon are also shown.

As you can see on the video below most of it are from Japanese developers like Konami and Square Enix. I just hope those games will not be exclusive to Japan.

There are 27 game titles when PS4 were launched in Japan that includes popular games like, Dream C Club: Host Girls on Stage, Yakuza Ishin, Nikoli no Puzzle 4: Sudoku, Nobunaga's Ambition: Creation, Tottemo E Mahjong Plus, Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends, and Onigiri

Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn Beta will also be launched in the near future. The release of Capcom's beta for Deep Down has been delayed which is unfortunate.

Sony has sold an impressive number of PS4 about 5.3 million consoles worldwide as of February 8th. They also have doubled the Microsoft's Xbox One sales for the month of January.

Japanese PS4 launch trailer complete with DualShock 4 sword fights Trailer:

Sony PS4 Rules Doubles Xbox One sales

Sony PS4 dominates the gaming console beat Xbox One in sales. Sony said that their console PlayStation 4 has nearly doubled Microsoft's Xbox One sales in January. Sony's target is 5 million units by March.

John Koller of Sony confirmed the NPD figures on their PlayStation Blog, that in the US, PS4 nearly doubled the sales of Xbox One in January.  

Sony said that they have sold 4.2 million units of PS4. The PS4 impressive performance will definitely go up as Sony will launch the PS4 in Japan in less than two weeks.

Microsoft reported that they have sold 3 million Xbox One unit worldwide at the end of 2013.

Nintendo won't Suit ‘Flappy Bird’

Fans of the highly addicting game ”Flappy Bird” are so disappointed with the withdrawal from Apple iTunes and Google Play stores by its creator Dong Nguyen.

A lot has speculated that it is because Nintendo maybe suing the maker of the game for copyright. However, Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa on Monday sent an email to The Wall Street Journal that they have not issued any complaint about the similarities of ”Flappy Bird” to their "Super Mario Bros.” particularly the green pipes.

”Flappy Bird” creator Dong Nguyen is based in Hanoi, Vietnam, his game became a hit and was number 1 in both Apple iTunes and Google Play stores.

He was also interviewed by Forbes’ Lan Anh Nguyen, he said that the game is forever gone because it is too addictive.

Here are excerpts from Dong Nguyen interview:

“Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed,” "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone forever.”

He was asked if the Verge article is true about the in-app advertising which is $50,000 a day, he said:

“I don’t know the exact figure, but I do know it’s a lot.”

Flappy Bird is obviously dead but don't be upset Flappy Bird addicts there are a lot of clones out there, like Flappy man, Flappy Whale, Flappy Angry Bird, and Flappy Penguin.