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Another Mario Movie For The Call Of Duty Generation
The Mario Warfare series continues after a few months rest/preparation. It continues to be the best place to see Mushroom Kingdom characters fighting with barrels and assault rifles. If you haven’t caught an episode before, you can start catching up here Mario Warfare 3 [Beatdown]
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2013 -
Crazy Mario Kart Cosplay Features…Famous Race Driver
Sebastian Vettel is the defending Formula 1 world champ. You could argue that makes him the best race driver in the world. But as we all know, skill alone means squat in a game of Mario Kart. Vettel took part in the German edition of the Red Bull Soapbox Race over the weekend, dressed as…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2013 -
Hacked Mario 64 Lets Boy Smash His Own Face In
OK. So this is weird. Reddit user pourmeanother77 has edited a copy of Mario 64 so that his son’s face replaced the texture on the game’s goombas. It’s about as simple a modification as you can do to a game, swapping one file for another, but when the result was “He laughed for a good…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2013 -
Every Game Would Be Better With Blink From Dishonored
The best part of Dishonored—a phenomenal game in just about every way—is the Blink spell, an ability that lets you instantly teleport a short distance in front of you. Blink is really, really cool. So cool that we think it should really be in every video game. Witness: See? Feel free to make your own…
By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2013 -
Mario Plant, Or Nightmare Fuel?
Gotta be the latter. If Nintendo had managed to make piranha plants look like this in the 80s, a lot of people’s childhoods would have been substantially more traumatic. Artist Karen “Dogzilla Lives” Main is to thank for this, but a warning: if this grosses you out, her other works won’t be any easier on…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 1, 2013 -
What If The Original Super Mario Bros. Was Remade In HD?
This kind of business, at least for its older games, isn’t really Nintendo’s style. The New Super Mario Bros. series is close enough, thanks. But let’s imagine that, one day, the company goes crazy/pulls a Capcom, and decides to remaster the original Super Mario Bros. in “HD”. It could look like NSMB, yeah, but it…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 30, 2013 -
Kid Gets Crazy Mario Face Shaved Onto His Entire Head
It may not be forever in the way a tattoo is, but this is a kid. And as far as kid statements go, getting an enormous Mario head shaved onto the back of your noggin is about as big as they go. No idea who it is, or who the barber was, but as someone…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 25, 2013 -
Mario Levels Made Out Of Real Animal Skulls. Creepy.
Made by artist and designer Tobias Wüstefeldfor the We Love 8 Bit show in Austria this month, these two pieces are…animal skulls. Turned into floating Super Mario Bros. levels. Right. It should be macabre as hell, but really, you barely notice the fact they’re the skulls of dead animals. Maybe. Just think of them as…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2013 -
AT E3, You Can Have a Cool (and Slightly Weird) Convo With Luigi
The Nintendo booth at E3 has a curious station featuring a screen with its most iconic characters, Mario and Luigi. The booth let people go up to the characters and hold a conversation with em (which you can see above)—which is cute, but also kind of eerie for some reason. I’m curious as to how…
By Patricia Hernandez Published June 13, 2013 -
The Nintendo E3 Booth In Nine Photos, With Plastic Mascots
The money Nintendo saved this year by avoiding a press conference and only having one response to questions about the two new consoles on the horizon (It’s about the games!) was used to create a pastel wonderland of childish delight. That’s kind of what Nintendo does.
By Mike Fahey Published June 11, 2013 -
Super Mario 3D World Out On The Wii U This December
At today’s E3 Direct, Nintendo showed us a glimpse of Super Mario 3D World, the newest entry in the Super Mario 3D series of action games, which started out with Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS in 2011. It will offer a four-player multiplayer mode starring Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach. Out in…
By András Neltz Published June 11, 2013 -
Who Needs Nintendo? Fans Make Their Own Mario Bros. Game
Back in 2011, I wrote about a project called Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, in which a group of fans were making their own sequel/expansion for the Wii platformer. Well, unlike most fan-created mods, these guys actually finished the job, and the game is now available for download. Newer adds 128 new levels, has new…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 10, 2013 -
Turtle Cosplay Will Stop You Ever Jumping On Bowser Again
Jennifer Olivarez made this cute little crocheted outfit for a pet turtle, tunring the little guy into the sweetest Bowser you’ll ever see. For crafty types and/or turtle owners, there’s directions on how to make your own. Don’t have a turtle? Maybe it’ll fit your kid. Or Roomba. Make It! Challenge #5: Crochet Bowser Sweater…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2013 -
Super Mario Bros. 3 Was Kind Of Different In Japan
You might have already known that Nintendo changed a few things when bringing NES platformer Super Mario Bros. 3 to North America—mostly to make it easier—but it’s still fascinating to see the changes presented side-by-side. This video, created by YouTuber Master0fHyrule, does a nice job displaying the differences between the Western and Japanese versions of…
By Jason Schreier Published May 30, 2013 -
No Big Deal, Dude Just Made Link And Mario Out Of Twist-Ties
Sometimes you just want to make a model of Link from The Legend of Zelda, and the only thing you have on hand are some twist-ties. The rest, as they say, is history. At least, that seems to be the approach of Deviantartist JustJake54, who recently made those TMNT twist-ties we posted, and now has…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 28, 2013 -
Show Us What You Love And Hate About Mario’s Character Design
Ah Mario; the Superman of video games. He’s the modest, iconic, do-gooder everyone loves. He’s wholesome — a video game character you can bring home to mom for the holidays. Like Superman, Mario has had his highs and his lows (I’m looking at you Hotel Mario and Bob Hoskins) but his design still remains unsullied…
By Chris Person Published May 28, 2013 -
Reviews
Super Mario World: The Kotaku Review
Super Mario World, which is a game about a plumber riding a dinosaur, is filled with rules that make absolutely no sense. For example, if you—and by “you” I mean the character you inhabit, Mario the plumber—jump on something dangerous, it will kill you, unless you are big, or wearing a costume, or riding a…
By Jason Schreier Published May 9, 2013 -
Princess Peach Will Kill You In Precisely Seven Levels
The Ring girl crossed with Princess Peach is a terrifying thought. Consider your childhood memories—and every console connected to a screen—forever ruined. Or at least ruined for the next seven days, after which you realize you were being ridiculous. C’mon, guys, seriously. The Ring girl isn’t real! …Right? Um, I’ll be in my bunker for…
By Tina Amini Published May 7, 2013 -
Humans Create Program That Builds Its Own Super Mario Bros. Levels
Manuel Kerssemakers, Jeppe Tuxen, Julian Togelius and Georgios Yannakakis have done something cool. They’ve created a computer program that does Nintendo’s job. Sort of. For their 2012 paper called A procedural procedural level generator generator, blogged today by Gamasutra, they built a system that’s able to randomly generate level generators that generate their own levels…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 1, 2013