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The Best Nintendo Switch Black Friday Deals
20.11.2023
Nintendo has never dropped the price of its six-year old Switch, and it’s not about to start now. But the company is still bundling Mario Kart 8 free with its consoles for Black Friday 2023, and discounting a bunch of other great games. The Switch 2 might be just around the corner, but there’s...
The Super Mario RPG Remake Sounds Like A Faithful Nostalgia Trip
15.11.2023
Super Mario RPG was a revelation when it came to the SNES in 1996. A mashup of everyone’s favorite platforming plumber and the turn-based, stat-driven combat of a Final Fantasy game proved to be an enduring mix that spawned multiple spiritual successors. Does Nintendo’s remake of the retro gem...
20 Years Ago, Double Dash Transformed Mario Kart
7.11.2023
For more than 30 years, Mario Kart has been going strong, with the series spanning 14 games. The fundamentals of Nintendo’s wacky racer are largely unchanged from the days of the Super Nintendo: You pick a racer, grab some items to chuck at your friends, and zoom past the finish line. But...
Mario Wonder's Online Mode Is Perfect For Antisocial Gamers
26.10.2023
The Super Mario games are often best experienced in solitude. Pretty much everyone who tried playing Super Mario 3D World with friends has stories about it devolving into chaos. But if you’ve decided that you only want to experience Super Mario Bros. Wonder by yourself, I’m here to recommend...
Nintendo Reveals Bowser Likes 'Em Thicc
11.10.2023
Bowser is attracted to Princess Peach. We didn’t need Jack Black singing about it in the massively successful Mario movie to figure that out. However, according to official Nintendo marketing materials, it seems Bowser prefers his Princesses bigger and thicker. Read more
Nintendo Is Doubling Down On Mario Games After The Super Mario Movie
14.9.2023
If it feels like Nintendo has put a ton of Mario on the menu lately, there’s a clear explanation for the boom of Italian-American fare—and it’s not that the Feast of San Gennaro is coming up. Not long after its April debut, The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the highest-grossing film of the year...
Everything We Saw At Nintendo's Mario-Stuffed September Direct
14.9.2023
Nintendo led another 40-minute Direct on September 14, and there were tons of Mario games and some surprising announcements. There was, sadly, no Switch 2, or the Tomodachi Life Switch port some passionate people on Change.org have been hoping and dreaming about, but it’s OK. You can hope and dream...
The Best Paper Mario Is Getting A Remake
14.9.2023
Nintendo just wrapped up its latest Nintendo Direct, and it closed the show with a banger of an announcement: Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is getting a remake for Switch in 2024.Read more
Miyamoto Was Like ‘That’s Not How Elephants Work’
1.9.2023
The next mainline 2D Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, looks fantastic, shaking up the franchise’s formula with new powers, worlds, and enemies. In particular, one new power that turns Mario into an elephant became quite popular online. However, at first Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto, wasn’t...
Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is A Whole New Approach To 2D Mario Games
31.8.2023
During today’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder-centric Nintendo Direct, we got to see a new and far more detailed look at the upcoming side-scrolling platformer, bendy pipes and elephantine Mario included.Read more
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
The New Super Mario Bros. Oreo Cookies Actually Are A Game, Too
10.7.2023
Oreo cookies’ limited-edition Super Mario collaboration is now available for purchase at Walmart and other big-box retailers. The cookies’ themed packaging advertises them as “collectible,” which is also how mold spores would describe themselves, if they could. Read more
Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Full Of Amazing Little Details
23.6.2023
Nintendo revealed its latest 2D side-scrolling Mario game at its June 21 Direct, and to the unsuspecting eye it might have looked like a familiar return to the New Super Mario Bros. spin-offs of old. But longtime fans quickly noticed that Super Mario Bros. Wonder looks full of extra animated...
To nejlepší z červnového Nintendo Direct. Mario, Wario, Luigi, Pikmin a několik dalších překvapení
22.6.2023
Velká trojka je kompletní. Po PlayStationu a Xboxu se s novinkami pochlubilo i Nintendo a tentokrát máme opravdu z čeho vybírat
Everything At Nintendo's 40-Min Direct For 2023's Big Switch Games
21.6.2023
Hey, listen: You weren’t playing Zelda during that whole presentation were you? It’s okay. I don’t blame you. Well, whether you were elsewhere during Nintendo’s Direct presentation today or exploring the vast world of Hyrule, we’ve got the roundup of everything Nintendo showed off, including Pikmin...
Princess Peach Is Getting Her Own Switch Game After Kicking Ass In The Movie
21.6.2023
Nintendo announced an untitled game centering Super Mario’s Princess Peach at its Direct showcase on June 21. It’s been nearly two decades since we last saw the smiley pink princess as a true protagonist; the last time she got her own game was 2005 platformer Super Princess Peach.Read more
After Breaking Box Office Records, Super Mario Bros. Movie Now Available Digitally
16.5.2023
Illumination’s animated adaptation of Nintendo’s long-running Super Mario franchise has racked up an impressive box office high score of $1+ billion worldwide. And now, while it continues to squeeze all the money it can out of moviegoers at the multiplex, it’s time for Mario and Luigi to come home....
Nintendo Renamed This Super Mario Bros. Movie Character, Possibly To Avoid Racism
20.4.2023
The official Nintendo account just tweeted that, in Japan, the foreman character in the NES game Wrecking Crew will be renamed from “Blackie” to “Spike” in games and The Super Mario Bros. movie. This change was already made in the U.S. and EU versions of the original game, likely because Spike’s...
A Government Twitter Account Apologizes For Post About Super Mario Bros. Gay Luigi
20.4.2023
Earlier this week, Colombia’s Ministry of the Interior tweeted, “I hope Luigi is gay” in response to a tweet that appeared to claim Mario was heterosexual. The tweet was deleted, but screenshots resurfaced some time after—with many criticizing the use of a gay slur. Whoever runs the government...
The Best And Worst Things About The Super Mario Games
20.4.2023
The Super Mario series has come a long way since Mario first rescued Peach from Bowser’s clutches on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Mario has cleaned up an island with a sentient hose, launched himself through the stars alongside Rosalina, and possessed innocent bystanders with the help of...