Super Mario Crossover (also mirrored on Ponged) is a Flash side scroller game based on classic 2D Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games like Super Mario Bros., Mega Man, The Legend of Zelda, etc.

/. shares a three pages Technologizer article on "The True Face of Mario" -- "Uncovering the fascinating true story behind an iconic character's origins--and why nobody likes to talk about them... Regarding Mario's origins, it's common knowledge among game fans that legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto created him for 1981's Donkey Kong arcade game. But few know that Nintendo borrowed Mario's name and Italian heritage from a real man..."

Digg shares a three pages GamesRadar article on twenty/20 games that are not quite based on movies. Great artists copy, and so do a lot of awesome games

Blue's News shares a Flash puzzle game titled "Enough Plumbers" -- "Run and jump your way to the exit flag using a variety of power-ups. Collect coins to clone yourself in this awesomely twisted Mario-esque puzzle-platformer."

Digg shares a three pages GamesRadar article on "the evolution of rain -- April showers bring this article!

This Brevity comic strip shows that being the best Tetris player can easily get him/her a job.

VideoSift shares a funny five minutes and 54 seconds YouTube video showing "Dan The Man" -- "A story about getting the video game princess" and love (<3).

This three pages Bit-tech.net article talks about "why everything is trying to be an role playing game (RPG) now" -- "Twenty years ago, the idea of levelling up in a game was confined to a very specific genre: the role-playing game, whose systems were based on pen-and-paper games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Today, you can still level up in an RPG such as Dragon Age, but you can also level up in far wider variety of games, from sports titles to first perspective shooter (FPS) games... The vast majority of modern games monitor, quantify and reward your skills in a way that would only have been familiar to the biggest geeks in the 1980s.

Yah, so you like tetris? think it can be hell? so does dude who makes xkcd I bet you won't even complete one line in this version!

Blue's News shares a tiny sized Flash platform game titled "Tiny Castle" where the player is a knight who runs around, jump, climb, destroy, kill, solve puzzles, etc. inside a tiny changing/morphing castle that changes.

UserFriendly's link of the day (4/2/2010) is on a turn-based Flash game titled Territory WAR" that is like Worms, but with stick characters and way less options.

VideoSift shares a funny three minutes CollegeHumor video titled "Video Game Health Care Bill" -- "1-Ups for all?

GameInformer has a twelve/12 parts (with multiple pages inside each one; three are missing but will be posted with the shown remaining days of March 2010) talking about the upcoming Valve Software's Portal 2 game. It also talks about the past as well

Neatorama shares a Zeray Gazette blog showing images modified and parodied, in geeky ways, of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's iconic images of dogs playing poker (or pool).

Blue's News shares a OC Weekly blog on the "ten things you didn't know about Super Mario Bros." -- "Everybody knows the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) classic Super Mario Bros.

Blue's News mention "Missile Command: 30th Anniversary" about a classic arcade and video game, with an updated version to play online with others -- "Thirty years after the release of the original, Missile Command is back and this time... you're not alone. Chock full of power ups, tricky enemies and intense boss battles..."

This two pages GamesRadar article compares the fantastic computer/video game weapons and their real-life equivalents -- "There are certain things we just accept in video games. An overweight pipe technician can jump five times his own height. A first aid kit will instantly heal bullet wounds and replace lost blood. And any theoretical physics model can be cleanly packaged into a lightweight, handheld weapon with the minimum of fuss. But in certain cases, that last one isn't too far off the truth.

Digg shares a funny Fredo and Pidjin comic strip (Chinese version) showing Apple's Steve Jobs revealing something bigger

Blue's News and Boing Boing share a twisted and confusing Tetris Flash game titled "First-Person Tetris -- "In a world of clever Tetris variants, First-Person Tetris stands out for being challenging, not impossible, and fun. When you rotate the bricks, the entire screen rotates as well, so two rotations makes the bricks fall 'up' -- it's mind-bending and way cool."