Do you know what some Hollywood stars do during their free time? Well for these three ladies, they keep busy by playing with their Nintendo DS. According to the ads America Ferrera enjoys Super Mario Bros, Live Tyler trains her intellect with Brain Age 2 and Carrie Underwood pats her virtual dog with Nintendogs.

The ads, together with I Play for Me site, showcase the three women and their Nintendo DS. This marketing strategy definitely has the female crowd as its target demographic by featuring these three ladies of different backgrounds.

The I play for Me site contains video of all three with their DS games. It also has behind the scenes videos that are quite entertaining to watch as well. The site also recommends games that you might like.

If you haven’t seen the ads, watch them after the jump.

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There are lots of Homebrew games for the Nintendo DS and indie developers are putting some good stuff out there. One of which is StillAliveDS, a 2D remake of Valve’s first person action/puzzle PC game, Portal. I think its developer T4ils should be commended for bringing Portal into the world of portable consoles.

Just like the PC game, players must use their wits and try to get through each stage while grabbing cake along the way. Players would still have to enter portals and determine how to reach their goals. The graphics is quite different from the original but it has its own appeal.

What’s best about StillAliveDS is that it’s free to download. T4ils even included a map editor so that you can create new maps for the game. Plus, you can share your maps to your friends.

Here’s a video from dsfanboy of how StillAliveDS is being played.

This is a video review of Guitar Hero on Tour by IGN. They got to play with it three weeks before it officially launches. IGN hire me please!

Judging by the video, Guitar Hero on Tour’s gameplay is exceptionally good. Plus, it is compatible with the old DS version as well.

I know I’ve written about Guitar Hero on Tour before but I think this game is worth every space it occupies. I’ve never been this excited for a game launch since Super Mario 3 and World of Warcraft.

Are you getting Guitar Hero on Tour for the DS?

Many-Worlds Interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics. Basically, in layman’s terms it means that there are an infinite number of universes and that everything that could possibly happen in our universe (but doesn’t) does happen in another.

In short, just like Adidas’ slogan says, “Everything’s possible.”

Here’s a video that can illustrate Many-Worlds Interpretation. This video uses a Kaizo Mario World superimposed 134 times on top of another.

Even if you had an epic failure, stand up and try again, you might not have 100 lives, but the possibilities are endless.

Would you trust a machine to tell you how healthy you are? Wii Fit is being billed as the exercise game for the whole family. Yet issues arise about Wii Fit’s capability to accurately calculate a young child’s Body Mass index (BMI).

Obesity experts in the UK have condemned Nintendo after Wii Fit called a perfectly fit 10 year old girl kid fat. This made the kid’s dad angry.

“She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone (84 lbs). She is solidly built but not fat. She was devastated to be called fat and we had to work hard to convince her she isn’t.”

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I know this is not a music blog but I got to share this to everyone. Everybody’s into the Wii these days. Wheatus of Teenage Dirtbag fame released their third video from their latest album TooSoonMonsoon.

During the entirety of the video, Wheatus is seen Boxing, some zapper game and of course Guitar Hero. It’s nice to see rock stars and their friends having good clean fun playing with the Nintendo Wii. Loved the video, the song is nice as well.

Now I present to you Wheatus’ Something Good video. Enjoy!

Congratulations to the Game Over crew headed by Guillaume Reymond! Their video on the Human Tetris got the nod for the Creative category of the 2007 Youtube Video Awards. Here’s more about their work from their website:

GAME OVER is one of the art projects developed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each “pixel” has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds “live”.

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Some of these you may already know, others are pleasant surprises, while the rest are downright weird. Play this video to learn more about everybody’s favorite Japanese gaming company, and watch out for the cats!

Look what I found! Electronic music? More like electrical music, and it’s ultra-cool.

Here’s a demonstration of a giant Tesla coil (an artificial source of “lightning”), singing and dancing to the beat of Mario, Tetris, and other games.

No more treadmills and other bulky gym equipment. Watch this video and be amazed with what the Nintendo Wii Fit board can do for your exercise regimen. You can even play dance games, football, and hoola. An excellent sensor, if I may say so myself.