Despite Mario reaching his 40th anniversary this year with Super Mario Bros, we’re about to approach the 30th anniversary since Mario made his 3D debut with Super Mario 64 in 1996. This became a ...
Although Mario himself first appeared in 1981’s Donkey Kong for arcades, it was the very super 1985 NES game that catapulted the mustachioed mascot into the pop-culture stratosphere. After appearing ...
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is getting a Switch 2 version. It was just revealed during today's Nintendo Direct, and it will have an additional multiplayer component. Now, take a deep breath before trying ...
We're reaching the point where publishers are seeing dollar signs when localizing games, and preservation has never been ...
Time to play Mario, in a completely different way. Nintendo has finally brought back their seminal creative software for the Super NES. Mario Paint, originally released in 1992 on the Super NES, is ...
A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. Announced during the September 2025 Nintendo Direct on Friday, Mario ...
No game can last forever, and that's especially true in the era of live service. In the case of Super Mario Maker, the 2024 shutdown of online services for the Wii U means that you can no longer play ...
Update 7/30/2025 4:16 p.m. ET: It didn’t take players long to wonder if Nintendo was trolling them. Its patch note increasing the rate of three-lap races notably states “‘VS Race’ and wireless races” ...
University of Maryland professor Mumu Xu and her students trained an artificial intelligence model to play the 1992 Nintendo hit Mario Kart as a way to study how self-driving cars and other robots ...
We used to play Mario Kart. It was 2003 and the Nintendo GameCube was a full-fledged member of my high school clique. It was at every social gathering, no matter how big or small. I went as far as to ...
Nintendo has announced 2D platformer Yoshi and the Mysterious Book for the Switch 2. It's coming in spring 2026. Revealed at today's big Nintendo Direct September live show, Yoshi and the Mysterious ...