Super Plumber

It’s not technically Nintendo’s iconic hero that I’m endlessly ending in the newly-released anti-platformer Kill the…

On November 21, 1990, Nintendo Japan released three amazing things—the first F-Zero, Super Mario World and a console…

On September 13, 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan. My first…

Mario Maker feels like a game that should not exist.

Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker arrives in North America on the 11th of September, allowing Wii U owners to craft their…

Mario is the ultimate video game hero, beloved by families the world over. Let’s kill him.

If you’re going to put together a tech demo for Nvidia’s Flex physics simulation in Unreal Engine 4 you might as…

This week I asked all you fine, potentially troubled Kotaku readers what your most impressive (most disturbing?)…

“What the fuck is this place?!” Now that’s the sort of down-to-earth question a real plumber would ask when…

Before the world knew him as Mario, Nintendo's iconic plumber had a simpler name: Jumpman. That name makes sense,…