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Mamma Mia, Someone's Remaking Super Mario Bros. With A Realistic Chris Pratt
30.9.2022
It feels like it was only yesterday when Shigeru Miyamoto pulled the goomba rug out from under our collective gamer asses with the surprise announcement of the bizarre Hollywood cast of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie. While the casting of Chris Pratt in the starring role horrified many,...
Fanda tvoří realistickou verzi Super Mario Bros. s Chrisem Prattem
30.9.2022
We Have All Been Bob Hoskins Contemplating Life And The Super Mario Bros. Movie
18.8.2022
Thank you, All The Right Movies, for digging up this old interview with Bob Hoskins, in which the award-winning British actor talks about the time he got the job playing Mario in the 1993 big-screen adaptation of Nintendo’s series.Read more
Witness Every Incredible Super Mario Bros. Speedrun Record Simultaneously
17.8.2022
Super Mario Bros. is one of the most storied games in the history of video game speedrunning, and an incredible new compilation shows just how far players’ mastery has come. Why watch just one world record run when you could watch all of them at the same time, in just 11 minutes?Read more
Only A Computer Could Do This Super Mario Bros. Trick—Until Now
10.8.2022
The Super Mario Bros. speedrunning community is constantly looking for new ways to push the state of the art, and one player just achieved what was previously thought of as an impossible feat…at least for a human.Read more
Super Mario Bros. World Record Now Just A Half-Second Short Of A Perfect Run
8.8.2022
Here’s a brief, non-exhaustive list of things that take less than four minutes and 55 seconds. Me devouring a plate of loaded nachos. Me eating an entire bowl of pasta (maybe a carbonara?). Me writing a lede while preoccupied with lunch. And a speedrunner blitzing through Super Mario Bros., setting...
Fans Are Dubbing Japan's 1980's Super Mario Bros. Anime
13.7.2022
It’s been ten years since we first wrote about The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, a 1986 film—released only in Japanese—that was the first time a movie had ever been made about a Nintendo character. So it’s cool to be able to report in 2022 that efforts are once again underway to dub...
Lego Bowser Big
7.7.2022
Bowser, Mario’s longtime archnemesis, is getting his very own and very large Lego set. The newly announced set features a giant Bowser construction that can be manipulated like an angry, fire-breathing puppet. Read more
10 Video Game Rats, Ranked By How Chill They Seem
1.7.2022
Because I live in New York City, my primary enemy is the rats. I face them daily—they run their greasy bodies around mounds of hot garbage and shit all over my apartment’s welcome mat. But via their appearances in games, I want to work on our relationship, and everyone knows that ranked slideshows...
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
Skyrocketing Retro Game Price 'Manipulation' Controversy Goes To Court
13.5.2022
The market frenzy leading to record-breaking prices for retro games appears to have slowed since last year, but frustration over the collectible grading firm at the center of the spike hasn’t. Earlier this week a number of Wata Games customers filed a class action lawsuit attempting to put an...
Film Super Mario Bros. se odkládá na rok 2023
26.4.2022
Na animovaný film se slavným instalatérem Mariem, jeho bráškou Luigim a padouchem Bowserem si počkáme ještě rok. S letošním vydáním se totiž už nepočítá
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
Super Mario Bros.' Iconic Blocks Hold More Coins Than You Think
16.4.2022
Without thinking too hard about it, what’s the maximum number of coins you can knock out of multi-coin blocks in the original Super Mario Bros.? Did you say 10? Well, you’re wrong, but it’s not your fault. You just haven’t done a deep dive into the almost 37-year-old game’s code like a complete...
The Mario Bros Have Earned A Beach Holiday
17.3.2022
I know Mario games have involved the beach before, but those times—Mario Sunshine especially—were about work, or quests, and quests are work. This series of illustrations by Léo Chérel instead imagines what it would be like if the brothers (and friends) were all able to take a proper, well-deserved...
Nintendo Buys Longtime Partner And Super Mario Bros. Programmer SRD
24.2.2022
Today, Nintendo announced it’s acquiring longtime partner SRD (Systems Research and Development), a company that has helped in programming some of the company’s most iconic games, including Super Mario Bros.Nintendo acquired 100 percent of SRD’s outstanding shares for an undisclosed sum, making...
Daisy Is The Only Super Mario Girl With Teeth, Apparently
10.2.2022
We all know Daisy is a little weird, what with her third eye and all. But were you also aware that she’s the only prominent woman in the Super Mario series with teeth? Well, now you are. I’m sorry.Read more
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...