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The Mushroom Kingdom War Just Got Serious

The images of the Mushroom Kingdom warfare you see above and below are the work of Hakashidnrc, inspired by the Mario Warfare video released a few months ago. The retextured skins of military combatants turned into Mario and Luigi will apparently be released for Garry’s Mod, according to the artist. You might even recognize the…

By Tina Amini Published October 3, 2012

Japan Gets Custom Mario, Animal Crossing Handhelds, And They’re Beautiful

Nintendo just announced two new versions of the 3DS XL handheld, both currently slated for release in Japan only. Which is deeply upsetting, because they’re amazing First up, this custom Animal Crossing 3DS XL, which will ship with the game when it’s released in Japan on November 8. Next, this New Super Mario Bros. 2…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2012

New Super Mario Bros. 2 Gets Three DLC Packs This Week For $2.50 Each

You can start buying downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. 2 this Thursday. The first three DLC packs for the game, each including three courses, are the Gold Rush Pack, Coin Challenge Pack A, and Nerve-Wrack Pack. Here’s Nintendo’s description of each: Gold Rush Pack: Fun new courses that give novice players the best…

By Jason Schreier Published October 2, 2012

Here’s Three Pieces of DLC For This Mario Game

Nintendo has just detailed the New Super Mario Bros. 2 DLC that it first announced back in June at E3 There’ll be three packs made available, all of them courses for the game’s coin rush mode: – Ippatsu Shoubu de Dokidoki Pack (very difficult course) – Gold Mario Go! Go! Go! Pack (try and get…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2012

How You Earn 30,000 Coins In Two Minutes In New Super Mario Bros. 2

The road to one million coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 can be daunting. Maybe you’ve given up by now. Well it’s time to get back on track, champ. Let Kotaku reader Slider show you how to earn 30,000 coins in two minutes all without leaving your couch. (Sorry about the video quality.)

By Jason Schreier Published September 27, 2012

Plants vs. Plumbers vs. LEGO

Illustrator and photographer Chris McVeigh is quite talented with LEGO. He’s got a whole assortment of LEGO pieces photographed and presented all nice and pretty on his Flickr page, but this one might be my favorite. It’s the two famous gaming plumbers—Mario and Luigi—and their infamous pipe-planted piranha plant in a pose reminiscent of Plants…

By Tina Amini Published September 25, 2012

Kotaku East

Who Is Bowser Jr.’s Mother? (And Other Burning Mario Questions Answered)

While Nintendo honcho Satoru Iwata already confirmed to Kotaku that Mario doesn’t have a last name, the company’s resident genius, Shigeru Miyamoto, has a crack at other burning questions. Like why Mario and Peach play tennis and race go-karts with Bowser. Like seriously, what’s up with that? In an interview with GameInformer, Mario’s creator dishes…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 25, 2012

Has Inflation De-Valued The Mario Coin?

If you’ve heard anything at all about the latest Super Mario Bros. game, you know that it has a lot of coins. So many coins. The diligent player can collect a million of the shiny little guys. An article over at Scripted Sequence ponders whether the ongoing inflation of coins in Mario games has led…

By Kirk Hamilton Published September 24, 2012

Wrap Your Head Around That Mario Mobius Strip With A Video Of It In Action

Mobius strips work on a pretty simple concept, but it can be hard to wrap your brain around what’s going on. So while those pictures of the Super Mario Bros. level recreated on a Mobius strip were super pretty, they didn’t get to show off just how amazing the entire thing is. The video above…

By Tina Amini Published September 21, 2012

Super Mario Bros. Level 1 Recreated On A…Mobius Strip?

Mobius strips are pretty neat on their own. You can cut them down the center, and it’ll just make it longer. You can perform multiple cuts, and it’ll just create three Mobius strips, linked together. Fascinating stuff. But this particular Mobius strip is a never-ending level of Super Mario Bros.. And as you turn it…

By Tina Amini Published September 20, 2012

These Mario Clones For Android Are Ridiculous

I love my Android phone. I really do. It feels personalized, it does everything I need it to do, and even though it has its flaws, I still like using it better than I like using iOS and iTunes (which I experience with my iPod touch). Apps for Android, though, are rather infamously a minefield…

By Kate Cox Published September 20, 2012

Tekken‘s Mushroom Battle Mode Gives Tekken a 1-Up

Namco’s Tekken series is making the leap to the Wii U. The fighting game favorite is one of the first big games slotted for the console. But does it pack enough punch on the Wii U? To cater to Wii U players, Nintendo and Namco have tailed the Wii U edition with loads of platform…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 19, 2012

Can You Spot All The Gaming References In Today’s Impressively Expansive xkcd Comic?

Today’s xkcd comic is…huge. Enormous. Seriously, the thing goes on for pages. It must have taken creator Randall Munroe forever to draw it all out. But hidden in the huge map of the world as he sees it are a bunch of gaming references, like Mario up top. Or Oregon Trail below, which brings me…

By Tina Amini Published September 19, 2012

Why Bowser is in Disney’s New Movie, But Mario Isn’t

Disney’s upcoming animated movie Wreck-It Ralph features cameos from all sorts of existing video game characters, from M. Bison to Altered Beast’s Neff. Yet there’s one character conspicuous by his absence. Mario. The biggest video game character on the planet will not be in the flick, and before you go thinking that’s just a licensing…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012

Maybe Nintendo Needs a New Mascot

Mario may be identifiable as the sun to the wider population, but there’s a generation of gamers coming of age who grew up playing more Pokémon than Paper Mario. To better appeal to their sensibilities, then, perhaps Nintendo could take a look at its choice of mascot. I’m not saying get rid of Mario. Maybe…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

The History of Video Games Gets, Uh, Weirdly Sexual Towards The End

This bizarre little piece of animation was originally intended to serve as the intro to a German documentary about video games. The idea was to take existing characters from the history of games and “reinterpret” them, to match the series’ brief to present the everyday lives of MMO addicts. I can kind of see that,…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 14, 2012

Mario Gets His Race On In “Boost Rush” Mode For New Super Mario Bros. U

At Nintendo’s press event today, Jason took a look at the new “Boost Rush Mode” for New Super Mario Bros. U for the Wii U. Here, you can see the mode in action—it involves pushing the screen to scroll faster by hitting boost blocks. Also, check out the nifty secret Luigi finds near the end.

By Kirk Hamilton Published September 13, 2012

You Can Watch Nintendo Announce The Wii U’s Release Date And Price Live Tomorrow Morning

Nintendo’s releasing a new console soon, in case you haven’t heard. And Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is having lots of important meetings with cartoon characters in order to commemorate the occasion. Tomorrow at 10am Eastern, Nintendo is holding an event in New York City to announce some big news about the console—including, presumably,…

By Jason Schreier Published September 12, 2012

Modern Warfare Comes to the Mushroom Kingdom, and it Looks Terrific

It’s been nearly 20 years since Nintendo last made a Mario movie. If they ever decided to make another one, and for whatever reason didn’t go the Paper Mario route, this might work. I mean, it’s barely Mario at all, but then, that didn’t stop them in 1993. At least this would have guns and…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 30, 2012

Kotaku East

Oh, Link and Mario, How You’ve Grown!

The years have flown right by. Think about your first time to play a Zelda or a Mario title. You’ve changed. But so have Link and Mario. Next January, Japan’s Medicom is releasing a trio of Mario and Link “Ultra Detail” figurines. They measure about 2.3 inches tall and are priced at ¥730 (US$9). For…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 24, 2012