Forty years on, Super Mario Bros. remains a gold standard in intuitive, joyful game design. From its iconic World 1-1 to its bold 3D leaps, Mario’s levels teach without tutorials, reward curiosity, ...

Going into 1981, Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was facing a problem. Working on one of his first games ever, he hoped to use Popeye, the famed sailor of 1930s cartoons, to serve as the hero.

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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 ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” now playing in theaters. “Mario” video game fans are in for another treat with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the ...

We shouldn’t say it was delayed because it was never officially announced. We have a shocker of a rumor about Mario. NateTheHate claims in his latest video that Nintendo is working on a 3D Mario game, ...

I don’t think I ever believed I’d live to see a Mario game that’s Rated M. However, it’s not like Mario is going to a strip club or Peach is shooting people and taking their mushrooms. Hey, even that ...

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Nintendo has a somewhat equivocal relationship with the annual Mario Day celebration of its most famous mascot on March 10. The celebration, originally coined by fans because MAR10 spells Mario, has ...

A Wawa store in Cape May County sold one of three top-prize tickets for the New Jersey Lottery’s “100X” scratch-off game, officials said. The $1 million winning ticket was purchased Thursday at the ...

For the first time in ages, Mario squares off against his original foe! Donkey Kong just made off with all the Mini-Mario toys, and now it’s up to Mario to chase his long-time nemesis and retrieve the ...

To the surprise of absolutely no one, I was never a Sporty Spice. When I snapped every one of the metatarsals in my foot clean across and had to spend the year reading and running a clandestine duet ...