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Mario Moves Up from Mushrooms

This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market. Cops in Helsinki, Finland raided a drug den and confiscated that sheet, plus a bunch of cash and other tools…

By Owen Good Published June 5, 2010

Mario’s Great And Terrible Secret

This won’t be news to anyone that knows enough about Mario to win a pub trivia night on the flora or the Mushroom Kingdom, but still. The delivery of this secret is as great as the secret itself. Yes, the clouds in Mario are the same as the bushes, just in different colours. Shocking, but…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2010

The Video Game Solution To The BP Oil Spill

Link, Mario and Sam Fisher team up to tackle the ongoing BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, as seen at Virtual Shackles, via Reddit. Finally, a better use for the FLUDD!

By Michael McWhertor Published June 2, 2010

Pick A Card, A Mario Card

Nintendo started out as a card maker, making hanafuda playing cards. Nintendo still makes playing cards. Video games, too. This July, the company will be releasing three sets of Mario branded playing cards. These are “premium” cards, and are priced at ¥1,050 (US$11) each set. I like the “dot” cards the most. They’re classy. Mario…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010

Thank You Mario! But the Daddy is in Another Castle …

Huh. Didn’t know Bowser was also the mailman in the Mushroom Kingdom … As seen on Played Online via Hot Blooded Gaming.

By Owen Good Published June 1, 2010

Will Top Kill Work On This?

As seen on Super Punch via Tiny Cartridge

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 1, 2010

Who Is The Greatest Video Game Character Of All Time?

Totally subjective question, of course, but movie mag Empire decided to try and answer anyway, its writers nutting out who they thought were the greatest video game characters of all time. The winner? It wasn’t Mario. It wasn’t Lara Croft, either. Or Master Chief. Or Link, or Snake, or even Mai Shiranui. No, the winner…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2010

How Mario Celebrates Memorial Day

As seen on Topatoco

By Brian Crecente Published May 31, 2010

Once and For All, Mario Can Jump the Flagpole

GameTrailers took on, Mythbusters style, the legend that Mario can leap the flagpole in Super Mario Bros on the NES. and, whaddaya know, they indeed proved it true. World 3-3 is where you have the best chance of doing it yourself. Now, GameTrailers, next for you: Turning Smurfette naked in Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle…

By Owen Good Published May 27, 2010

The Princess Is In Another Birdhouse!

Thanks Eugenio

By Brian Crecente Published May 26, 2010

A New Challenger Enters Super Mario Bros. Crossover

A deadly assassin stalks the back alleys of the Mushroom Kingdom, as Exploding Rabbit adds a new challenger to popular Flash game mash-up Super Mario Bros. Crossover. Those poor Goombas will never see it coming. During a recent interview, Crossover creator Jay Pavlina explained that several characters had to be cut from the game’s initial…

By Mike Fahey Published May 25, 2010

The Princess Is In Your Castle, And She Has Needs

So you’re off to save the Princess, huh? Might want to think it over, side-scrolling platform hero. Because when you do save her, she may well be more trouble than it was worth. At least, that’s the perspective of this cautionary tale, in which our intrepid traveller gets more than he bargained for when he…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 20, 2010

Bow Before Your Lord, Mario

An oldie, but goodie. As seen by はちま起稿

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 20, 2010

Mario Is Good At Spanish, Really Good

From first grade until college, I studied Spanish…and since I moved to Japan, I have forgotten it all. Kaput, gone, bye-bye. But not Mario voice actor Charles Martinet. He totally remembers it. At a recent presentation, Martinet not only showed his Mario voice acting skills, but his mastery of the Spanish language. Since Mario speaks…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2010

The Marshal Of Mushroom County

As seen on Threadless

By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2010

Nintendo’s Bamboo-Walled, Flower-Roofed Headquarters

With corridors made of bamboo, a roof layered with flowering sedum plants and buildings named after Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Wario, Nintendo’s new Redmond headquarters sounds every bit as fanciful as the games the publisher makes. The 300,000-square-foot-building sits on a 10-acre site on the Nintendo campus, home to most of the Japanese company’s…

By Brian Crecente Published May 16, 2010

This Sultry Princess Peach Will Stick Around Forever

Or at least until she’s removed. As seen on Hawty McBloggy

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 16, 2010

Build Yourself Some Mario Cosplay

Rather than dress like Mario the way everyone else dresses like Mario – with overalls and a red cap – these guys tried a little harder, building a propeller cap and, more impressively, the FLUDD from Mario Sunshine. You can find details on how they were made here and here, which also double as a…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2010

All The Super Mario Galaxy 2 Ads You Could Ever Watch

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is coming to the Nintendo Wii. Soon, even. Here are a bunch of ads. Better yet, a compendium That’s Kazunari Ninomiya and Masaki Aiba playing through the game. Aiba is a popstar and actor — ditto for Ninomiya; however, he’s known to Western audiences for his role in Letters from Iwo…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2010

Mario Creator “Always” Has Regrets

You’d think that the guy who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Wii Music wouldn’t have any regrets. Oh wait. “As soon as we’ve finished a project, I always have regrets about what we could or should’ve done,” said Nintendo’s Shigeru Miaymoto in a recent interview with Edge magazine. “But then there…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010