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Beloved Classic Super Mario RPG Gets A Remake Fans Have Wanted For Years
21.6.2023
In the lead-up to today’s Nintendo Direct, rumors have swirled that, among whatever else might be announced, we’d be seeing a remake of a beloved Super Nintendo classic. Just which game it might be, however, remained unclear, so fans on Twitter took the opportunity to drum up hype around their...
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
Fire Emblem Heroes Becomes Nintendo’s First Billion-Dollar Mobile Game
1.7.2022
I’ll admit that, until yesterday, I had no idea Fire Emblem Heroes was still active and updated. But a lot of people are still playing the game and apparently spending money on it, too. New data shows that Fire Emblem Heroes has just reached $1 billion in revenue, becoming the first Nintendo mobile...
Super Mario Odyssey Mod Adds 10-Player Multiplayer
23.6.2022
Super Mario Odyssey on the Nintendo Switch? It’s a 1.5-player joint (it’s not true co-op, nobody wants to be the hat). This modded version of Super Mario Odyssey? Well, it’s a 10-player game, which makes it looks more like the Super Mario Multiverse.Read more
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
If You Want To Get The Most Out of Mario Strikers: Battle League Make Some Friends
13.6.2022
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I’m Going To Play The Heck Out Of Mario Strikers: Battle League
10.6.2022
Wario is a cheater. Sure, that’s part of his notorious personality, but in Mario Strikers: Battle League, he literally picks up the ball (with his hands!) and hurls it toward the goal. I won’t profess to be some sort of expert in soccer. I am, however, pretty certain that’s a violation of every...
Mario Strikers: Battle League Reviews Are All Over The Field
8.6.2022
For the first time in more than a decade, Mario returns to the pitch. Mario Strikers: Battle League, a revival of Nintendo’s long-dormant soccer series, hits the Nintendo Switch on Friday. Nintendo did not provide Kotaku with an early copy of the game for reviews. We’re experiencing it, and...
Cursed Mario Kart Clone Starring Peter Griffin Is Actually Pretty Good
27.5.2022
I was horrified by the trailer for Warped Kart Racers, a new kart-racing game that blends together several popular animated shows. But like a terrible car wreck, I couldn’t look away from the waking nightmare of Peter Griffin and Hank Hill racing each other in a Mario Kart clone. It was cursed....
Why Mario Strikers: Battle League Could Be Nintendo’s Next Multiplayer Hit
20.5.2022
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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...
New Nintendo Numbers: If Mario Kart 8 Keeps Selling Like This, We’re Never Getting A Sequel
10.5.2022
If you were holding your breath for news of Mario Kart 9, you might as well exhale. The racer’s immediate predecessor, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, is still one of publisher Nintendo’s best-selling games on Switch. It has sold a hair short of 10 million copies over the past year, according to an earnings...
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...
Nintendo Takes Down Scans Of 1996 Super Mario 64 Strategy Guide
25.3.2022
Good morning, and welcome to what feels like the 1097th episode of “Nintendo Gets Some Cool Shit Taken Off The Internet”, only this time we’re not even talking about a tribute game or piece of fan art, but a harmless old book.Read more
Mario Kart 8 Connoisseurs Are Already Dissecting Its Newest Courses
17.3.2022
Five years after it came to Switch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is about to get eight new race tracks as part of its Booster Course Pass DLC, and players are already parsing whether they look deluxe enough. The consensus? There isn’t any, at least not yet.Read more
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...
Waluigi’s Famous Crotch Chop Celebration: Explained
16.3.2022
With Mario Strikers: Battle League on the horizon, the former director of the soccer series finally gave us the answer as to why Waluigi, Nintendo’s fan-favorite black sheep, celebrates with that distinctive crotch chop after scoring a goal. Read more
Only One Of Mario's Hats Is 'Pure' Red
9.3.2022
Hello, and welcome to a fact you may never have considered in your entire life, but which you will now be noticing every single time you ever see a plumber jumping around in a Nintendo game.Read more
I Need These Cordless, Battery-Free LED Lego Bricks For My Next Build
4.3.2022
Adding working lights is a fun way to take a Lego creation to the next level, and the company even includes light-up features on some of its sets, including a glowing Christmas tree. But this clever hack makes integrating lighting into a build impossibly easy thanks to the same technology that...