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Longtime Mario Voice Actor Charles Martinent ‘Stepping Back’ From Role
21.8.2023
Charles Martinet, the actor whose voice has been synonymous with Mario since the mid-90s, is moving into a new role at Nintendo, the company announced on X (formerly Twitter).Read more
This Nintendo Franchise Doesn’t Sell, And Shigeru Miyamoto Has A Theory
20.7.2023
Pikmin 4 is out tomorrow, July 21, and from the sound of it, the Switch game is pretty dope. Despite this, the series has only had four mainline games since the first entry launched on the GameCube in 2001. The games don’t perform as well as other first-party Nintendo games, with the best-selling...
The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: The Kotaku Review
23.6.2023
I climb up onto a giant lilypad floating in the middle of a lake and it sinks under my weight, leaving me submerged up to my shins.Read more
Report: Tears Of The Kingdom Director Already Has Plans For The Next Zelda
12.5.2023
Six years after The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, its direct sequel, Tears of the Kingdom is finally in the hands of Switch owners. So obviously there’s no better time to start asking about the future of the series, and we’ve already gotten our first official tease for, what should we call...
Miyamoto Says Negative Reviews Of Mario Movie Helped It Grow
26.4.2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a bona fide hit. In its first five days in theaters, the new animated film brought in over $375 million globally. And despite a lot of negative and meh reviews from critics, it’s expected to cross a billion dollars at the box office soon. In fact, according to Shigeru...
Miyamoto’s Best Stories And Takes From The Super Mario Bros. Movie Media Blitz
6.4.2023
The wait is finally over: The Super Mario Bros. Movie is out. The journey here has been filled with some of the best side-splitting memes, ingenious ad campaigns, and revealing method acting from Illumination Entertainment’s star-studded Hollywood cast. However, the Super Mario Bros. movie brouhaha...
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Zelda Game
29.3.2023
The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most widely celebrated in all video games, and for good reason. Even the worst Zelda game is in a class of its own, but all of them have their occasional drawbacks. We’re here today to break down the best and worst parts of each mainline game, from...
Shigeru Miyamoto Is Very Excited About Mario's Boots, For Some Reason
10.3.2023
During tonight’s Nintendo Direct, a brief chat built wholly around the third and final Mario movie trailer, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto ended the presentation with one of the weirdest “one more thing” announcements I can remember.Read more
Miyamoto Says Don't Worry About His Nintendo Retirement, Maybe Go Outside
28.2.2023
Nintendo existed long before Shigeru Miyamoto joined back in 1977, and it will continue to do just fine after he’s gone, the famed game designer told NPR in a new interview. Following the grand opening of the Super Nintendo World theme park in California last week, one of the creators behind Super...
Oldest Known Miyamoto Interview Reveals Nintendo Staff Loved…Donkey Kong Jr. Math
28.2.2023
A newly translated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto was into, and his hopes for Mario’s future. Read more
Everyone Sounds Awesome In The New Mario Movie But Mario
30.11.2022
Now that we’ve all been properly satiated with memes from the second Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer, it’s time to re-address the elephant in the room: Chris Pratt’s vocal performance as Mario is holding this film back.Read more
Shigeru Miyamoto Accidentally Trolled Everyone During The Big Nintendo Direct
13.9.2022
Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct was a much-hyped affair, with a whopping 40 minutes dedicated to the Japanese company’s portable console and its games. Most people kept their expectations somewhat in check for this, because Nintendo said that the event would largely focus on products coming out this...
Miyamoto Couldn't Stand Wind Waker's Art Style At First
27.6.2022
If there’s one thing that’s helped The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker stand the test of time, it’s the game’s distinctive art style. But it turns out this now-defining aspect stoked some controversy in development. According to a slew of old interviews, resurfaced and translated by the folks...
Mario Movie Producer Says Chris Pratt Won't Offend Italians, Completely Missing The Point
21.6.2022
Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri is apparently under the assumption that his studio is being criticized for casting Chris Pratt as the eponymous plumber in its upcoming Mario movie due to concerns over Italian representation and not because, you know, Chris Pratt sucks.Read more
Reggie Fils-Aimé And Satoru Iwata's Great Nintendo Friendship
3.5.2022
It started with an unheard-of request. Reggie Fils-Aimé wasn’t yet president of Nintendo of America. Heck, he wasn’t even an employee—but rather, interviewing for a job. Yet he wanted to speak with Satoru Iwata.Read more
Super Mario Bros. Movie Delayed, Now Out In 2023
26.4.2022
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has just posted a short statement on Twitter, saying that the upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie will no longer be released this year.Read more
Incredible 90s Super Mario 64 Guide Scanned In HD, Can Now Be Enjoyed By All
15.3.2022
I’ve actually briefly written about this guide before on the site, but in 1996 a book was released in Japan called Super Mario 64 Complete Clear Guide Book, which wasn’t just a strategy guide but also a collection of developer commentary and photos of custom-made 3D dioramas, crafted just for...
Report: Suicide Squad Game Delayed All The Way Into 2023
3.2.2022
Your calendar is not lying, it’s only the first week of February, but according to reports Warner Bros. have decided to get in early and kick the upcoming Suicide Squad game all the way into 2023.Read more
The Best NES Game Turns 30 Years Old Today
31.1.2022
January 31, 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of a fantastic Sunsoft platformer known as Gimmick, released for the Famicom all the way back in 1992. Excuse me while I spend a few paragraphs gushing about it.Read more
It’s Not Just You: Miyamoto Hated Navi In Ocarina Of Time, Too
26.1.2022
Navi. That simple, two-syllable word is enough to send even diehard Legend of Zelda fans into a tailspin. But as it turns out, even Shigeru Miyamoto–the legendary designer behind the action-adventure franchise and countless other Nintendo properties–felt a touch of frustration toward Link’s...