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There are a lot of Mario games for the Nintendo Switch. It's the 35th anniversary of Mario and Nintendo has released classic Mario 3D games, a Mario Kart game with a real car and a free online Mario battle royale game. There's also a Mario Party game where you battle Villager to win Mushroom Cup.

Through the end of August 2017, a total of 14 exclusive Mario amiibo will be released to buy to spend in Mario 3D World's new Battle Mode. And the two Super Luigi amiibo will go on sale by the end of November 2017. If you want all of the amiibo, you'll be paying $97.99.

In August, a new Nintendo Switch game called Super Mario Odyssey will be arriving with 18 announced Mario amiibo on a download card of 15 Super Mario Moves, 20 new Super Mario costumes and a new game feature that lets you revive whoever is dead over and over again to use in minigames. The new Super Mario Odyssey amiibo, which has been coming out since March, will cost $12.99. So you'll be paying a huge $25 dipping price for the whole range of amiibo at launch.

In March, a limited wave of Mario-themed amiibo started shipping and is sold through various sellers. Some Mario-themed sets, including Mario & Luigi, Super Mario Bros., Mario and Star. Mario, were only available with select sets of Nintendo Zone Coin cards and were purchased at around $10 apiece. This limited-edition Mario collection has a maximum players of three.

More info as it becomes available. E3 is right around the corner!

Weighing on Chinese President Xi Jinping's mind is a problem rooted in his disastrous return to officialdom. His country's streets are still filled with protests, lying crushed under piles of rubbish and sewage. Protests reached a crescendo in 2013 after Xi had presided over a militaristic security crackdown killed hundreds in Tiananmen Square, and after four Chinese journalists were jailed; their heads placed on pike in a public square to intimidate the rest.

In China's state media propaganda organs, an annual game of optimistic as well as gloomy reporting — correctly predicting economic doom while highlighting security crackdown successes, and falsely predicting economic growth — has been a mainstay since Deng Xiaoping's reforms started.

But the ongoing rampant economic growth of the past few years, combined with Xi's emphasis on improving the economy, has left far less room for the political shake-up and reforms needed to advance what's necessary to warrant Xi's third five-year term: economic equality, household safety for citizens and oversight of the Communist Party.

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