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Mario Strikers Returns With Battle League, Coming June 10
9.2.2022
It’s been more than a decade since the last Mario Strikers game. But fans of the battle soccer series won’t have to wait much longer for the new game. During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed Mario Strikers: Battle League, which will hit the Nintendo Switch on June 10.Read...
Nintendo Hits YouTube Soundtrack Channel With Over 1300 Copyright Blocks
30.1.2022
A YouTube channel that uploads video game soundtracks has reportedly been sent over 1300 copyright blocks in one day. This news isn’t shocking if you know Nintendo’s track record when it comes to fan creations and communities, but it’s still a frustrating situation as much of the music that...
Poll: Here Are Japan's Top 100 Video Games Of All Time
28.12.2021
Last night on Japanese television, there was a three-hour special to rank the hundred most popular video games of all time as voted by over 50,000 people in Japan. Since this poll has such a huge sample, the TV Asahi results are probably a fairly accurate barometer of people’s current gaming tastes...
Nintendo Games Are Actually On Sale For Once
22.11.2021
No one tell Doug Bowser, but GameStop actually has Nintendo games on sale for under $40. Shocking, I know!Read more
Here Are The Nintendo Switch's Ten Best-Selling Games
4.11.2021
Wonder what the biggest Nintendo Switch sellers are? Sure you do! Nintendo has updated its list of top ten selling games. Let’s have a look.The list is for worldwide life-to-date numbers as of September 30, 2021. These sales figures include both bundled units and downloadable copies. Read more
Unofficial Mario NFT Game Players Are Actually Glad Nintendo Discovered It
29.10.2021
Another Mario fan game looks like it’s about to bite the dust, but this time nobody’s shedding any tears. The 1up Platform is a cryptocurrency scheme that got underway earlier this year, seemingly featuring a battle royale of corporate copyrights and stolen artwork. Now it’s finally attracted...
$440 Super Mario Bros. x One Piece Crossover Has Wonderful Hair
19.10.2021
Custom toy company Fat Lane Toys have made this new statue that takes Mario and wonders, like maybe six other people on Earth have maybe ever wondered, what he’d look like if he was also Gold Roger from One Piece.Read more
10 Years Later, We Can't Stop Watching Nintendo Directs
1.10.2021
Way back in 2011, the very first “Nintendo Direct” featured then-Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé in a white, echo-y room promoting the struggling 3DS by talking about how it was getting Hulu Plus and could record 3D videos. “Up to 10 minutes of 3D video can be recorded of anything...
Okay Nintendo, We Helped Fill Out The Rest Of The Mario Movie Cast
24.9.2021
Yesterday, Nintendo shocked the world when Shigeru Miyamoto announced the main cast for the upcoming animated Mario film. But only some main characters and their Hollywood counterparts were unveiled. Surely Nintendo does not need our help with the casting process, but why not have some fun with...
Thirty-Six Years Ago Super Mario Bros. Went On Sale In Japan
13.9.2021
On September 13, 1985 in Japan, Nintendo released one of its most iconic games ever, Super Mario Bros. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, it was a smash at home and became the Nintendo Entertainment System’s killer app a year later. The world was never the same. As Famitsu points...
The Latest Nintendo Lego Set Is Super Mario 64 Block
9.9.2021
Get ready to revisit Super Mario 64 with the Lego’s newly announced set. Say hello to Lego Super Mario 64 Block. On the outside, it’s a large Question Block, but inside, there are four different Super Mario 64 levels: Peach’s Castle, Bob-omb Battlefield, Cool, Cool Mountain and Lethal Lava Trouble....
NYPD Sends Helicopter After Graffiti Artist Over Super Mario Bros. Piece
27.8.2021
The New York Police Department, in a stunning misuse of public funds and resources, has sent in a helicopter, ‘dozens’ of officers and blocked off streets, all so they could corner and apprehend a single graffiti artist who was painting a Super Mario Bros. question block on the front of a water...
YouTuber Accuses Million-Dollar Retro Game Sales Of Being Scams
25.8.2021
Vintage video games, like factory-sealed copies of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System, have suddenly started selling for eye-popping prices, and a new video documentary claims potential fraud could be a big part of the reason why. It effectively charges...
We Finally Know SOMETHING About The New Super Mario Bros. Movie
10.8.2021
It’s been almost four years since a new Mario Bros. movie was announced, and in that time we’ve learned almost nothing about it other than the fact it’s being made by the same team behind the Minions movies and that it’s going to be animated.Read more
More People Are Buying Mario Kart Than Nintendo’s Newest Games
5.8.2021
Nintendo’s Super Star isn’t the bright and shiny New Pokémon Snap or even the juggernaut that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons. No, well into the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan in the year 2021, it’s Mario Kart 8 that takes the lead.Read more
1986's Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Being Painstakingly Restored, Now In 4K
21.7.2021
A long time ago, in one of the first Total Recall features I ever wrote for this site, I covered The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, the first—and in many ways still the best—Nintendo movie ever made.Read more
A Sealed Copy Of Super Mario 64 Just Sold At Auction For $1.5 Million
11.7.2021
Super Mario 64 is a good game. But would you pay $1.5 million dollars for a copy of it? Probably not. But somebody just did. Read more
Ultra-Rare Zelda Cart Fetching 6 Digits Before Auction Even Begins
6.7.2021
A super-rare version of The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System is getting a lot of attention at Heritage Auctions, where pre-bidding has seen the 1987 NES cartridge surpass $100,000 before the auction’s official July 9 start date.Read more
Luigi Unlocks Lego Super Mario’s Two-Player Mode
22.6.2021
When Lego Luigi officially joins the Lego Super Mario lineup on August 1, he’s bringing much more than his verdant sense of style and slightly smoother mustache. Combining the plumber brothers in Lego land unlocks the possibility of two-player brick-bounding action. Here’s how it works.Read more
Lego Mario Leak Shows Massive Bowser Airship
17.6.2021
On Wednesday, Amazon Australia uploaded a listing for the next big Lego Mario seemingly ahead of its official reveal. It’s a full Lego build of Bowser’s classic airship. While it has since been removed from Amazon, the internet never forgets. Lego fans quickly downloaded and shared images of...