Tag Archives: Mario

If you were as inactive as I was growing up, then summer wasn’t a time for swimming or sunshine. That season away from school was for playing games, and that was just as true for vacations. I played a number of portable games on family vacations, but none are as …

Mario goes Hollywood Twenty years ago, Super Mario Bros. made the leap from the NES to live-action theatrical films, in the process creating an unforgettable piece of cinematic history. Believe us–weve spent those last 20 years wishing we could forget. Completely ignoring the personalities and whimsical tone of the Super …

Some of the most exciting news out of today’s 3DS-focused Nintendo Direct presentations doesn’t relate to Nintendo’s handheld at all. Rather, it seems that Nintendo’s home console DLC plans have stepped up a gear, with the announcement of New Super Luigi U for New Super Mario Bros. U (opens in …

As any publisher of modern video games will tell you, if your game doesn’t have dirty great swathes of dubstep shoe-horned into both its trailer and soundtrack (Far Cry 3, Syndicate, SSX, and probably a thousand other upcoming games, I’m looking at you), then you might as well not bother …

There’s been a lot of talk of 3DS sales lately, as the last few weeks in Japan it’s been hitting record high system and software sales (opens in new tab) and simultaneously overshadowing the PS Vita’s launch (opens in new tab). Dissecting weekly Japanese sales charts is fun and all, …

The Olympics takes the competition between athletes from all the world’s nations very seriously, while the idea of a fat plumber competing against a human-sized hedgehog is inherently ridiculous. It’s with that hilarious juxtaposition in mind that we’ve been watching the various Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics …