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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

It’s Time To Decide: Call of Duty Dog or Super Mario Cat?

Like the Highlander, there can be only one. Call of Dutydog. Mariocat. Only one (Popular Video Game + Animal) can win. And you will decide the winner. It’s time to settle this.

By Kirk Hamilton 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

It’s Called Hipster Mario. You’ve Probably Never Heard Of It.

Artist Sam Milham, attempting his own swing at the whole “video game characters as hipsters” thing, knocks it out of the park with a range of Mario characters so well realised you’ll probably never want to play another Nintendo game in your life. Some are nice and messy, but man, that Bowser is just perfect.…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2013

This Mario-Meets-Pokémon Game Is Completely Ridiculous

IGN found what is possibly one of the worst iOS games ever: Super Monster Bros. It’s this Mario-Meets-Pokémon game that tries its best to charge you for everything. One wrong tap and all of a sudden the game asks you to buy a hundred dollar jump ability or a Charizard rip-off. Watch: That much money,…

By Patricia Hernandez Published April 26, 2013

What If The NES Games Of The 1980s Were Released In 2013?

We often look back fondly on the games of yesterday, especially when it comes to the purity of their design. In the days before DLC, before always-online, before microtransactions, they were things that you bought, once, they were complete, and you could enjoy the entire experience. For a moment, though, let’s pretend that was never…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 24, 2013

‘Suspicious Package’ Found In Arizona Today Looks Really Familiar

I don’t blame police in Tempe, Arizona for calling in the bomb squad to examine this “suspicious package” they found on the street today, as reported by news network KTVK. And, yeah, I guess it’s for the best that they sent in a robot to try to detonate it. After the events in Boston this…

By Jason Schreier Published April 19, 2013

Dammit, Mario, Can’t You Let Luigi Have His Moment Of Glory?

Japan is getting a very pretty Luigi 3DS XL handheld later this year. It’s got little green Luigis all over it, and a special logo for his 30th anniversary, riffing on the Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary logo we saw a few years back. But wait, what’s that? In the top-right corner, as spotted by…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2013

Someone’s Got A NES (Sort Of) Working Inside Counter-Strike

What you’re seeing in the video above is the Sourcemod Entertainment System (SMES), a server plugin for Counter-Strike that lets you start up a video game and play another video game inside that video game. According to creator skwumpy, it works like this: you can pick up a cartridge in the game world, insert it…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2013

Awww, This Mario Wedding Is So Sweet I Want To Get Married All Over Again

Where 96% of video game weddings are tacky, horrid affairs, potentially awkward for many guests and with a high chance of regret decades down the line, this one gets the balance between “video game wedding” and “normal wedding” just right. The key is in the style and design, with every reference obvious enough to fans…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2013