In 45 years, Mario has gone from a nameless avatar in arcades to a pop-culture icon — and maybe saved gaming along the way.

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Jack Black got down to his Tenacious D musical roots on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday, performing a high-energy acoustic rock number called “The Ballad of Super Mario” alongside ...

Voice actor Kevin Afghani has taken over the role of Mario in Nintendo video games. Afghani replaces Charles Martinet, who voiced the character for more than 20 years. Chris Pratt voices Mario in "The ...

At the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan, I sat down with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri to find out how they collaborate together, why they went to ...

Everyone’s favorite Brooklyn plumber is back in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” (in theaters April 1), a big-screen follow-up to 2023’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which netted nearly $1.4 billion ...

For anyone born after 1980, the Super Mario Bros. feel less like characters and more like a fact of life. Inevitable and welcome like a Saturday morning, as reliable as gravity. It was no surprise to ...

Like being asphyxiated in a ball pit filled with candy, the experience of watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is at once kaleidoscopic and nerve-wracking. It pantomimes the hallmarks of a good time, ...

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits theaters on April 1. Illumination, the folks who brought you those sweet little yellow hench-dudes, is back with their second crack at one of the most iconic video ...

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