Nintendo's pride and glory, Shigeru Miyamoto, was nominated more than a week ago by the people behind TIME Magazine to be one of the Most Influential People of the Year in The TIME 100. After an introductory write up by Quake's own Johnathan Wendel, a.k.a. Fatal1ty, the man behind the phenomenal Mario and Donkey Kong is now pegged at the 92nd spot of the Top 100 list.

Now we do know that the spot isn't as impressive as PC World's placing of Blizzard's Mike Morhaime in the recent Top 50 Most Influential People on the Web, but seeing as he went up against the likes of Paris Hilton and titans from other industries other than the video game, we say 92 is definitely a big slice of the pie. In fact, bagging the 100th spot at the Top 100 list of TIME is already way too good to pass up.

In other news (or just FYI), top spot was filled by philanthropist and Hollywood hottie Angelina Jolie, honored for her major influence on the needy. But top on the readers' lists is Korean pop sensation Rain, with (surprise!) American Idol's Sanjaya Malakar on third place. According to all you gaming readers out there, Shigeru Miyamoto is number nine in your book.

Photo courtesy of Makoto Ishida for TIME Magazine.

Okay, so she's out to prove she's not just some dumb blonde, with lots of money, and with some scandalous video circulating in the internet. Paris Hilton is set to conquer the world--yes, even the gaming world.

Not just content with having a show of her own, or an album that surprisingly sold, or her own music videos, Paris has apparently also dabbled in craftsy gaming. With pink swarovskis, at that. Yup, that product right there is a pink DS Lite, butchered--er--designed by Paris herself.

And yes, she fully intends to share her talent. In fact, there's one actually up for auction on eBay right now. And starting at US$ 670, with a buyout of US$ 1465, approximately. Hmmm...sparkly, sparkly. Then again, I don't think anyone would expect anything less from the blonde heiress, eh?

Oh, and it comes with spare crystals and a glue kit. So don't worry about them swarovskis going astray.