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“A little bush has entered our world. Our Super Mario World.”
Nintendo is adding a few new features to Super Mario Maker, including key doors, a “super expert” mode for the 100 Mario challenge, and new ranking categories for the bookmark website. The key stuff is big; the keys can be hidden inside enemies, essentially creating boss battles.
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Checkpoints are usually handed out as a reward for progress, but in this Mario Maker stage, the creator decided…
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I recently listened to someone explain why they felt no guilt about hacking Mario Kart so that they could cheat in…
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Every few days, I stream Mario Maker on Twitch, and sometimes people send me the levels they’ve made. I was not…
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Mario Maker’s most notorious player is back again with another devilishly difficult level. This one is a little…
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OK, I know that someone built a cell phone in Minecraft not that long ago, but Mario Maker isn’t the most expansive…
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The design in the video is not an exact recreation of the final boss, but it’s a pretty good likeness, hence the…
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When Nintendo turned off the Super Mario Maker servers this week, it didn’t explain why. Would you have guessed that…
Nintendo unexpectedly took down the servers for Super Mario Maker yesterday, but they’re back online, ahead of schedule. The game was being worked on due to an “emergency” glitch found in the creation tool, though Nintendo hasn’t produced details.
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PangaeaPanga is a brutal Mario Maker creator; it can take weeks for people to figure out how to beat his stages.…
Nintendo has taken down Super Mario Maker for “emergency maintenance” from now until January 28 at 8:00 pm ET. The company says it’s due to an unspecified bug that happens in the creation tool. Any ideas on what bug it is? Read more
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I’ve watched a Super Mario Maker player by the name of ReflectivistFox play through a stage called Fermat’s Last…
When Mario Maker launched, Nintendo warned players it could remove stages from the game for a variety of reasons,…
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“I tried to be kind with this level,” said Alex “PangaeaPanga,” a man responsible for many of Mario Maker’s…
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Sometimes, good guys lose. That’s what happened on Sunday; I was unable to beat the latest stage from Giant Bomb’s…
People are making all kinds of stages in Super Mario Maker. There are brutally hard stages, traditional stages,…
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That might look like Super Mario Maker—but it’s not. It’s Super Mario ReMaker, a fan-made project that hopes to…
I’m slowly making progress in the latest catastrophe of level design from Giant Bomb’s Dan Ryckert. Dubbed The Armageddan—F8D1-0000-011D-7B5B—it’s yet another set of devious puzzles, tough platforming, and endless misdirection. Watch me play it here. I’ll eventually beat it, so the world may feel safe again. Read more
Super Mario Maker is a wonderful game filled with a nearly endless supply of inventive Mario levels to play. The…