Welcome to a GDC-happy edition of the News Blips. I'm totally giddy for the new Super Mario game on the 3DS. In fact, I'm wearing my tanooki suit right now.

News Blips:

Nintendo President and CEO, Satoru Iwata, shows off a Super Mario game for the 3DS -- and the logo has a tail. During his GDC keynote, Iwata revealed some images from the Super Mario game for the 3DS that contained plenty of clues. The first thing that stood out to me is that tail in the shadow of the logo -- it is unmistakably an allusion to the same effect that Nintendo used in the Super Mario Bros. 3 logo. Iwata shows off four screen shots during the announcement. In one of the images Mario is tiny, which suggests that the mushroom powerup could be making its triumphant return. The title is fully 3D -- in both gameplay and graphics -- and the same team that worked on both Super Mario Galaxy titles is developing this one. Nintendo hasn't provided a release date, but holidays 2011 sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Reggie Fils-Aime details the Netflix-streaming 3DS feature. The new handheld, which launches this month in North America, is obviously centered on the 3D experience. When it comes to 3D movies on Netflix, however, there isn't exactly a plethora of great content to choose from. Thankfully, the system will be fully capable of streaming all of the 2D shows and films as well. Fils-Aime gave the example of a dad kicking his kid off the big TV by giving the little guy a 3DS playing an episode of Sponge Bob. I don't know what kind of house that dad is running -- letting a child think he can use the big TV. He would probably have been better off giving his delinquent son a 3DS streaming an episode of Scared Straight. Netflix will be available on the latest Nintendo device this summer.

Minecraft developer Markus "Notch" Persson says that piracy isn't theft. "If you steal a car, the original is lost. If you copy a game there are simply more of them in the world," said Persson while speaking at GDC. Technically speaking, he is absolutely correct. Piracy doesn't equal theft in the eyes of the law. It does equal copyright infringement, however, which is just as illegal as stealing in most countries. Persson insists that pirates are not bad people and that publishers should treat them as potential customers. [Next-Gen]

FindMakarov.com was counting down to this awesome trailer -- not to Modern Warfare 3 -- my bad. Last week I reported that a countdown on the FindMakarov website was probably teasing a new game from Infinity Ward -- that wasn't the case. Instead, it was building up anticipation for the trailer to the most amazing fan-made film you have ever seen. Check it out:

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