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The X Factor judge has spent months organising the 60th anniversary spectacular.

It will feature stars including Elton John, Kylie Minogue and Stevie Wonder performing on a specially constructed stage at the front of Buckingham Palace.

Gary told how he went to the palace to brief Her Majesty on the concert — which will be shown live on BBC1 next month — but that her most pressing concern was how long it would take to dismantle the stage.

The take that singer said: “Only a couple of weeks ago I got the job of presenting the plan of the concert to her.

“I learned everything about this gig, I know every act that’s on, I even know every band member in Madness. There’s not a question she can throw at me where I am going to falter.

“I went, ‘Your Majesty, this is what the concert is going to look like, it’s going to be incredible, this is where it’s going to be, in front of the palace’. she looked at me and went, ‘So, all that equipment, how long is it going to take to dismantle it?’

“At this point I’m guessing and I say, ‘Oh about six or seven hours’ so she went, ‘The concert’s going to finish at half ten at night which means you’ll be doing that all night while my family live at the front of the palace’.

“A little bead of sweat ran down and I was like, ‘So, moving on Your Majesty — this is the royal box, this is where you’ll be sitting’.

“She said, ‘How am I going to get there?’. it was something else I didn’t know the answer to.

“She is incredible for her age — very, very smart. She’s excited about the whole weekend, she really is.”

Speaking on tonight’s Graham Norton Show on BBC1, cheeky Gary speculated how the Queen would travel from the palace to the concert.

Demands … The Queen

He said: “It’ll probably be a golf buggy, a nice one, the best golf buggy you can get.”

Gary also revealed how he couldn’t wait to return to The X Factor.

But he said he was sick of being the nasty judge — and would instead be mr Nice Guy.

He said: “I’m a very serious person but I want to enjoy it a bit more this time around, especially the auditions side of it.

“I was always like, ‘I’m the serious music guy’ but actually 98 per cent of the acts are absolutely awful, so I want to enjoy them this time around.” The X Factor yesterday officially confirmed Dermot O’Leary would be fronting the new series — months after he started working on it.

Simon Cowell said: “Dermot has done a brilliant job for the past five years — he is mr X Factor!”

Meanwhile, Prince Harry has made his recording debut after being recruited by Gary Barlow to play on his Jubilee single.

The Prince, a keen music fan, agreed while in Jamaica to bash a tambourine which the take that star recorded to use in the song.

Tribute … Prince Harry meets Bob Marley’s widow Rita in JamaicaArthur Edwards

The track, called Sing, was written by Barlow and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and also features the chart-topping Military Wives. When it is released later this month it is expected to be the first chart single to feature a specially recorded member of the royals.

The Prince features alongside a number of notable names including celebrated reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, plus guitarist Ernest Ranglin, famed for playing on the Dr no soundtrack as well as on timeless Sixties hit My Boy Lollipop.

Barlow, who took his laptop around the world to record various artists, said he had become fond of Harry after meeting him a few times. he said: “He’s fun and relaxed and he’s a really nice kid.”

But asked if the prince exhibited any musical talent, Barlow said simply: “No.”

He added: “He’s a great guy Harry — a lot of people I met in Australia, he was their favourite. they loved him, especially the older women. I think he’s one of the Queen’s favourites as well.” Barlow revealed that Prince Charles was the brains behind his globe-trotting Jubilee single.

He had been planning to put it together in the UK but the Prince of Wales advised him that the Queen would appreciate a single drawn from across the Commonwealth.

Charles’s idea led Barlow to travel to Australia, Kenya, Jamaica and the Solomon Islands in search of guest musicians, singers and inspiration.

The journey will feature in a BBC1 documentary Gary Barlow: on Her Majesty’s Service, to be screened in the coming weeks.

Gary said of the project: “It was one of the best things I have ever done, like nothing else I’ve ever tried before.”

TODAY is the last day to post entries for The Sun’s great royal portrait competition. There are two categories and two majestic prizes.

The first category is open to under-eights, the second to artists aged nine to 13, and both winning entries will be exhibited for a day in London’s National Portrait Gallery alongside some of the most famous and valuable portraits of the Queen.

For your chance to win, just create your own portrait of the Queen on one side of A4. one winner will be selected from each age group and each will receive a Nintendo 3DS and a download code for the Colors! 3D game on the console.

Five runners-up from the remaining best entries, regardless of age group, will also receive a Nintendo 3DS and Colors! 3D.

Get your parent/guardian to send your entry and age, plus their name, address and phone number, to: Jubilee Portrait Competition, The Sun, 3 Thomas More Square, London E98 1XY. Entries must be with us by may 19.

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As always, Japanese firm Media create has released its weekly sales data. this week’s trove of information covers the week from April 23rd through April 29th, and has been translated by Andriasang.

Nintendo 3DS is still seeing strong sales, though PlayStation Vita had a bit of an uptick as well, likely on the strength of a new PlayStation Vita game seen in the sales data at the bottom of this article. Vita sales are still entirely unimpressive, but it sold over 4,000 more units this week than last week. PSP is also selling much better than it usually does on the strength of some new PSP-centric game offerings.

• 1.) Nintendo 3DS – 74,282
• 2.) PlayStation Portable – 22,457
• 3.) PlayStation 3 – 21,114
• 4.) PlayStation Vita – 12,299
• 5.) Nintendo Wii – 9,200
• 6.) Microsoft Xbox 360 – 1,327

The winner on the software front is the new Resident Evil game (known as Biohazard in Japan) called Raccoon City. Mario Party 9 on Wii and Surge Concerto: Ciel no Surge on PlayStation Vita also did very well.

Overall, the Nintendo 3DS accounted for 7 games on the top 20 list, with PSP raking up 6. PlayStation 3 had three games chart, Nintendo Wii had two games, and then there were two surprises: PlayStation Vita and Xbox 360 both had a game chart each.

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this week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

Nintendo eShop Lock’N Chase – this classic arcade game invites you to play as a thief who’s trying to score big by collecting his weight in gold. Duck in and out of alleys while scooping up coins along the way. (For Nintendo 3DS™)

WiiWare™Stonekeep: Bones of the Ancestors – the legend of Stonekeep requires a new hero: you. Explore creepy dungeons, defeat monsters and take their loot in this fantasy RPG. (For Wii™)

Nintendo eShop / Nintendo DSiWare™Gaia’s Moon – something strange is causing changes to the balance of energy in Gaia. use your skills to discover who’s behind these changes and return harmony to the Gaia system. (For Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo DSi™)

Nintendo eShopResident Evil® Revelations (demo version) – An abandoned cruise ship holds the secret to a global bio-terrorism conspiracy in Resident Evil Revelations. A demo version is now available in the Nintendo eShop. (For Nintendo 3DS)

Also new this week:Anne’s Doll Studio: Gothic Collection (Nintendo eShop / Nintendo DSiWare)In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS™ system, to the Nintendo DSi™ Shop for the Nintendo DSi system and to the Wii™ Shop Channel for the Wii console at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Thursdays.

the Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service and features games, applications and videos in both 2D and 3D. Users can add money to their virtual wallets using a credit card or by purchasing a Nintendo 3DS Prepaid Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card.

the Wii Shop Channel offers games and applications and uses Wii Points™, which can be purchased via the Wii Shop Channel. the Nintendo DSi Shop offers games and applications and uses Nintendo DSi Points™, which can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Wii Points Card™ and Nintendo DSi Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. all points from one card must be redeemed in either the Wii Shop Channel or the Nintendo DSi Shop, respectively. they are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage some of the content their children can access. for more information about this and other features, visit nintendo.com/wii, nintendo.com/3ds or nintendo.com/ds/systems/dsi.

Kid Icarus: Uprising creator says it’ll be another 25 years before Pit takes to the skies again.

No more arrows, no more saving goddesses, no more Kid Icarus on Nintendo DSes. Kid Icarus: Uprising, released in March for Nintendo 3DS, was the first brand new game to star winged hero Pit to his a Nintendo console in 25 years. It’s quite a good game, despite its frustrating touch screen controls. if anything, it was an imperfect foundation on which to build a new series for Nintendo, another spoke in its wheel of franchises that keeps the company rolling. now its creator Masahiro Sakurai says that a sequel is unlikely.

Speaking with IGN on Wednesday, Sakurai was asked if he and his Kid Icarus team Project Sora had built a “rich, lasting universe so that it could be easily returned to.” He put the kibosh on that right quick: “If by ‘lasting universe’ you mean to ask if there’s a sequel, the answer is no.”

“We pushed a lot into the game in order to let people have this short yet deep experience, but the novelty of that would likely grow thin in the next game,” said Sakurai, “For now, my thought is that perhaps we’ll see someone else besides me make another Kid Icarus in another 25 years.”

You are a mean person, mr. Sakurai. First you build an incredibly fun game that physically harms the people playing it with hand cramps and then tell them they’re playing it wrong. then you dash their hopes, telling them they’ll have to wait another quarter century for a follow up with more gracious controls. Why do you hate us so much? Is it because we said Super Smash Bros. Melee was better than Super Smash Bros. Brawl?

While Sakurai’s statements might seem like a second death for the obsessives that have carried a torch for Kid Icarus all these years, take a deep breath and then a swig of calming, delicious water. Sakurai said that he and Project Sora won’t make another Kid Icarus game and that he thinks he’s made a definitive statement that doesn’t need revision. He’s wrong of course. Kid Icarus: Uprising needs better controls, no questions asked. He’s also wrong that there won’t be another Kid Icarus for 25 years. if Uprising sells, Nintendo will make another Kid Icarus. it may very well farm out the project to one of the Western studios it’s come to rely on for quality games. it was rumored for years actually that Metroid Prime creators Retro Studios were working on a Kid Icarus reboot. Maybe they’ll get the next crack.

F-Zero is one of Nintendo’s most prominent series. its games are on nearly every Nintendo console known. The SNES, N64, GBA, Nintendo DS all have been graced with the appearance of an F-Zero game. however, F-Zero is one of the most underated and ignored game series on the Nintendo. F-Zero is a futuristic racing series that takes place in the late 21st century.

Each race consists of around 30 racers each competing for the goal. however, unlike most racing games, F-Zero does not have any items or special features. It is just plain racing. High speeds of over 2000 miles per hour are not common and killing many racers to get ahead is the norm. In this series, racers compete in a variety of courses such as Port Town, big Blue, Mute City, White Land and Red Canyon. The main character in the series is Captain Falcon.

He is a bounty hunter who rides the fast and powerful Blue Falcon. however, the series has quite a story line such as defeating evil enemies such as the Black Shadow, Zoda and Blood Falcon. In F-Zero GX a story mode was added that allowed gamers to compete in a variety of courses with intended goals. also, in F-Zero GX, gamers can build and optomize cars with custom parts that can be bought at a shot. with all of these features, one would have to ask why this series is so underrated and little known. This answer to me is still a mystery. It is a great series and remains as one of Nintendo’s best series.

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The next time you take a trip to one of our national parks or volcanoes; do not be surprised if you see a group of young men and women hunched over portable gaming systems, engaged in furious button-mashing with incredible thumb dexterity.  they are members of the growing Nintendo StreetPass 3DS community in Costa Rica, video game enthusiasts who break the tired stereotype of the lone gamer sitting in a darkened bedroom surrounded by junk food wrappers.

StreetPass is a networking protocol created by Nintendo and installed into the 3DS portable gaming system.  it allows players to connect with each other, exchange information, and engage in social interaction.  StreetPass is enabled by Mii Plaza, an application that comes with two mini-games to entice players to test the system and find other like-minded 3DS users.   StreetPass supports multiplayer sessions wirelessly or via an Internet connection.  when the 3DS is in sleep mode, StreetPass scans for open signals, exchanges information, and downloads content automatically.

Ever since its debut, StreetPass has managed to break the mold of reclusive hardcore gamers with its social features.  StreetPass groups in Costa Rica and other nations are growing their ranks, and gamers are loving the social interaction and the meetings that often take place in the outdoors.

There are quite a few games that take advantage of the StreetPass protocol, including special versions of classic franchises such as Street Fighter, Mario Kart, Super Mario, and Lego Star Wars.  Kid Icarus and Mario Kart seem to be the favorite among Tico gamers who are members of the StreetPass CR community.

Video game culture in Costa Rica is growing at a healthy pace, as evidenced by the StreetPass community and the Boom Con celebration of popular culture that took place in San Jose earlier this year.  while Boom Con was mostly focused on comic book lore and underground comix; video games, anime and cosplay also had a strong presence at the event.  This past Sunday at the National Center of Culture (CENAC), fans of Japanese animation, manga, and cosplay gathered for Chibi Fest 2012 –and the StreetPass CR community was present.

There is an additional advantage to StreetPass: it drains the battery of the Nintendo 3DS faster, which has prompted Tico members of the StreetPass community to put away their portable gaming systems and engage in other activities, such as hikes, picnic lunches and even mejengas (impromptu football matches).

the semblance of Nintendo DSi used to be first declared last October 2 of two008 in a conference of the corporate in Tokyo, Japan. ever because then, the sport console has been released from Japan and within the commenceof two00ninethe sport console and dsi accessories could also be manufactured and released in different places. The design of the DSi is from an older model the Nintendo DS Lite. With the DSi, there many new includes and alters that couldmake the former model lokprehistoric.

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This week’s lineup of Nintendo downloadable games is being highlighted by the demo of Rayman Origins which can now be downloaded by 3DS users. other content that is currently live for DS devices includes Kirby’s Block Ball, Chronicles of Vampires: The Awakening, a trailer of Men In Black 3 to watch using the Nintendo Video service and an update for Mario Kart 7.

Rayman Origins for the 3DS has been in the pipeline for far too long now, and hence the news of it having received a June 5, 2012 release date is sure to please fans. The demo can be downloaded currently through the eShop for free by all 3DS owners. The 1995 Game Boy classic, Kirby’s Block Ball has also made its way to the 3DS this week. this block-clearing title has Kirby bouncing all around the screen to destroy blocks and enemies.

Gamers following the developments around Mario Kart 7 may perhaps know that three of its tracks – Wuhu Loop, Maka Wuhu and Bowser Castle 1, contain shortcuts that provide players with extreme advantages. With the latest mandatory patch for this title, all these shortcuts have been permanently eliminated.

Chronicles of Vampires: The Awakening, which complements December’s Chronicles of Vampires: Origin, can now be purchased by gamers for their DSi as well as 3DS systems. this hidden object adventure features puzzles and mini-games that help gamers uncover the conspiracy of wicked creatures, and rescue humanity by uncovering a shocking truth.

While the Rayman Origins demo and the Mario Kart 7 update from this week’s Nintendo downloadable games are available for free through the eShop, Kirby’s Block Ball sells on the service at 2.99 USD (approx. Rs. 160). Chronicles of Vampires: The Awakening on the other hand, can be bought from the DSi Shop as well as the eShop at 500 Points and 4.99 USD (approx. Rs. 270), respectively.

The Nintendo 3DS, as it is currently named, will provide 3D graphics without the need for glasses, as stated in a Tuesday press release by Nintendo. the new 3DS will also be compatible with all existing Nintendo DS and DSi titles.

Nintendo declined to state more in the press release, saying that more details will become available in June at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. There are no definite answers about the nature of the 3D display, with Japanese magazine Asahi suggesting that the 3DS will use a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp. others speculate that it will use face tracking technology, which shifts the perspective of the game’s view according to the position of a player’s face, guaged by a front-facing video camera.

This is not Nintendo’s first foray into the realm of 3D gaming. Nintendo released the Virtual Boy in the USA on August 14, 1995. the system was never warmly received, and with continued price drops failing to revive sales, it was discontinued the following year. the Virtual Boy used two 1 x 224 linear arrays of red LEDs with rapidly oscillating mirrors employed to scan the image across each eye, creating the illusion of a full field of pixels. With two arrays and two mirrors, the images could be varied for a 3D view.

I currently own a Virtual Boy. It has a hallowed place at the bottom of my closet. Thankfully, I did not purchase at the full retail price of $180. I bought it on eBay several years ago for about $30. There are some very fun games for the system, including Red Alarm, but it never caught on enough for developers to pay attention to the system.

The DS remains a top seller, beating the Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 for total hardware sales in February at 613,200 units.

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The acclaimed Monster World IV which has till now, only been released in Japan for the Mega Drive, has been spawned on the Wii through this week’s Nintendo downloadable games. another Virtual Console entrant comes in the form of Wonder Boy in Monster Land, while other games hitting Nintendo devices include Sudoku by Nikoli and Paul’s Shooting Adventure 2 as well as a Nintendo Video named Dinosaur Office: Office Party.

For those unaware, Monster World IV is a Mega Drive platformer which was launched exclusively in Japan in 1994. It involves the story of a young girl named Asha who happens to hear spirits calling out for help. this persuades her to leave her village and set out on an adventure into the Monster World where she finds friends in a small blue monster named Pepe and a magical Genie.

Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the other hand, is a yesteryear action RPG which has been ported to several platforms since its original 1987 Arcade release. the kingdom of Wonder Land has been invaded by a dragon called the MEKA dragon, and this has called upon Wonder Boy to save the lives of all the people in the territory.

Sudoku by Nikoli is basically a 3DS version of the well known number-placement puzzle game. this title includes a total of fifty puzzles and sells on the eShop at a price of 4.99 USD (approx. Rs. 265). Paul’s Shooting Adventure 2 is another handheld title in this week’s list of Nintendo downloadable games. It involves players controlling Paul and his twin brother, as they use their combined powers and weapons fight off the Insectians. It can be picked up from the DSi Shop as well as the eShop at 200 Points and 1.99 USD (approx. Rs. 105), respectively.

Both the Wii titles from this week’s Nintendo downloadable games are now available to be purchased through the Wii Shop Channel at 900 Points each.