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Mario Kart Games, Ranked Worst To Best
For almost thirty years we’ve been driving like maniacs, questioning the meaning of fairness and ending friendships in Nintendo’s Mario Kart series. So why not end a few more by trying to rank these...
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2 Has A Release Date
It came as no surprise earlier this year when it was announced that The Super Mario Bros. Movie was to receive a sequel. The 2023 animated feature made $US1.3 billion from its theatrical release alone,...
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The Nintendo RPG Bonanza Continues With Gorgeous-Looking Mario & Luigi:...
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the latest entry in the long-running Nintendo RPG series and the first one made from the ground-up for Switch. It features a seafaring adventure and an eye-popping...
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Nintendo’s War On Fan Creators Now Includes People Making Sheet Music For...
Nintendo’s reputation for taking down anyone it deems is using its intellectual property in a way it doesn’t like is pretty well documented. Some of these incidents make some sense, such as going after...
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Do Yourself A Favour And Watch The Best Speedrunning Event Of The Year
It’s the first week of July, a liminal period between the not-E3 marketing machine festivities and a surprisingly stacked summer release schedule. As Americans prepare to celebrate another glorious...
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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games To Kick Off July
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things...
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We Almost Got A GBA Port Of Rockstar’s Cult Classic The Warriors
The Warriors, a PS2-era video game adaption of the 1979 film of the same name, was never Rockstar Games’ biggest hit, but it was well-reviewed at the time. And according to a source, a Game Boy Advance...
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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Would Be Terrific If Not For This...
God, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is so frustrating. I’m this close to absolutely adoring this assortment of timed challenges from NES games. In many ways, it feels like it’s designed...
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Lego’s Super Mario World Build Is The 16-Bit Perfection We Need
You know what Lego’s are made of, right? Blocks! And you know what the original Mario was made of! Also blocks! So, if we just put those two ideas together…crossfade the undersplines…carry the seven…...
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Castle Crashers’ First DLC In 12 Years Lets You Make Your Own Characters
Castle Crashers was one of the first breakout indie darlings on Xbox 360 to show players the console’s Live Arcade wasn’t just a backwater for low-effort shovelware. The Behemoth’s...
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Watch YouTubers Use Mario Kart’s Green Shells To Destroy A Car In Real Life
There are many who lament the effects of YouTube on our children’s minds, as unvetted dross-like entertainment is churned out separately from the eyes of regulatory bodies, inevitably crammed with...
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A Bunch Of Mario And Kirby Switch Games Are On Sale Right Now
Sound the alarms! Some of Nintendo’s first-party digital Switch games are on sale for a limited time. If you’ve been wanting to play Mario Golf, Kirby Star Allies, or Nintendo Switch Sports this is the...
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Nintendo Plans To Sell Over 10 Million More Switches But No One Knows How
The Switch is in its eighth year. That’s longer than any Nintendo system has gone without getting a successor. But the company is still bullish on the hybrid console’s future even as fans wait to hear...
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13 Of The Worst Video Game Movies Ever Made
Video game adaptations are enjoying a bit of a renaissance right now. A video game getting made into a movie used to have fans bracing for embarrassment, expecting some cheap, unwatchable slop to be...
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New Doom Console Port Flooded With Old Mario Mods And More
The newest official port of Doom and Doom 2—classic ‘90s shooters from id Software—fully supports player-created mods and maps. And in less than 48 hours, you can now shoot Mario characters in Doom on...
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The Most Painful Mario Kart Finish Ever Gets The Perfect Sequel 10 Years Later
We’ve all been there. You’re playing your favorite Mario Kart, cruising to a first-place victory after a cakewalk race when one little thing goes wrong and you’re suddenly staring down the barrel of a...
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One Lone Nintendo Fan Has Been Keeping The 3DS Servers Alive For Months
In April, Nintendo officially shut down the 3DS online servers. But some players didn’t log off and stuck around, keeping the servers going. However, after nearly four months, it seems just one person...
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Lego Reveals Adorable Little Mario Kart Sets Coming In 2025
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the most popular game on Nintendo Switch, is getting a proper Lego tribute starting next year. The toy brick company announced a line of Super Mario: Mario Kart Lego sets coming in...
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Surprise! This Might Be The Last Nintendo Direct Before We Hear About The...
The big Nintendo Direct usually doesn’t happen until September, but this year the Mario maker is sneaking out a slightly smaller showcase at the tail end of August for indie and third-party games. Does...
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Square Enix Only Made Two Of These Final Fantasy VII Lego Sets And One Just...
A Lego replica of the iconic church where Aerith tends her flowers in Final Fantasy VII recently sold for a shockingly high amount at auction. The Square Enix giveaway fetched $US12,500 over the...
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Shadow, Amy’s Absence, And More The Internet Can’t Stop Talking About From...
Don’t ask me how many times I’ve watched the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the third entry in Paramount’s live-action adaptation of the life and times of Sega’s speedy mascot. Don’t ask me if...
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Everything Shown At The Latest Nintendo Direct, Fresh Details On Dragon Age:...
This week, we got a Nintendo Direct that was one part Indie World, one part partner showcase. We’ve got a roundup of every game featured in the 40-minute presentation. Also, new leaks suggest that an...
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Nintendo Just Dropped A Bunch Of New Details About Mario & Luigi: Brothership
The weird drip-feed of information about Nintendo’s fall Switch line-up continues with a bunch of new details and combat trailers for Mario & Luigi: Brothership. The latest entry in the...
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Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom And More: 29 Big Blockbusters And Small Indie Games...
The autumn onslaught of game releases heading into the holiday season is now upon us. If it felt like there were already too many games to pay attention to before, things are about to get much worse. A...
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Switch 2 Rumors Are Hitting A Fever Pitch
Nintendo Switch owners have been waiting for upgraded hardware for years. They might finally get a glimpse of that later this month, as rumors continue pouring in about an imminent reveal of a Switch 2...
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New Super Mario Wonder Switch OLED Bundle Reportedly On The Way
While fans wait desperately for news of the Switch 2 reveal, a new Nintendo Switch bundle is apparently coming soon in the meantime. A Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch OLED bundle is seemingly coming...
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This Handful Of Discounted Games Show Off The Switch’s Range
I think everyone is waiting with bated breath for news of the successor to the Nintendo Switch, which seems like it’ll be announced any day now. That’s only because everybody I know has one and...
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Astro Bot Has One Level That Puts Mario To Shame
One of the best things about the flagship Super Mario games—the likes of Galaxy, Galaxy 2, and Odyssey—is the incessant inventiveness. So often they’ll feature a level that makes you exclaim, “That...
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PS5 Pro Reactions, Destiny Anniversary Feels, And More Of This Week’s...
This week, we got a look at the upcoming $US700 PS5 Pro and what it will be capable of when it launches later this year—amd we have thoughts. We also celebrated a bittersweet milestone with Destiny 2,...
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No Amount Of Non-Astro Bot News From Sony Can Keep Us From Talking About This...
Amid Concord’s demise and a somewhat divisive PS5 Pro announcement, Astro Bot brought us some joy during an otherwise super serious month for Sony. The adorable 3D platformer is filled to the brim with...
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Indie Dev Announces Switch 2 Game As More Rumors Swirl
We are officially halfway through September and there’s still no sign of a Switch 2 or of the usual Nintendo Direct that typically airs around this time of year. Instead, we have an indie studio hyping...
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Our Hopes And Predictions For Nintendo’s Switch 2 Reveal
If you listen closely, it feels like you can hear the jingle of plastic and metal for Nintendo’s next console as its manufactured and assembled in faraway factories. You can almost sense its launch...
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Alleged Images Of The Switch 2 Appear Online, Nintendo Sues Palworld, And...
Rumors surrounding Nintendo’s successor to its wildly successful Switch hybrid console continue heating up, with this week bringing us images that allegedly leak the appearance of the Switch 2. In...
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The Mainline Legend Of Zelda Games, Ranked From Worst To Best
When it comes to ranking Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, you’re really just ranking a group of top-tier games. A list ranking the Zelda series is a list of bangers, and even the “worst” entry is...
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Nintendo’s New Museum Has Some Awesome Merch
Nintendo’s long-awaited museum finally opens to the public soon. The place is filled with decades of Nintendo history, ranging from when the newly founded company made playing cards in the late 1800s...
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Starfield DLC Fail, Astro Bot Devs Speak, And Other Big Gaming News Of The Week
It’s been a week, guys.From new DLC releases, to a new PS5 feature getting frustrating real fast, there was a lot to cover in this first week of October. We covered Astro Bot devs acknowledging the...
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Mario & Luigi: Brothership Sounds Like A Pleasant But Familiar RPG Adventure
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is Nintendo’s big game for the Nintendo Switch this holiday season. How is the platforming duo’s latest RPG spin-off adventure shaping up? According to a new string of...
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Playtesting For Mysterious Nintendo Switch Software Fills Up In Seconds
As people continue waiting patiently for official news of the Switch 2, Nintendo has taken the unusual step of rolling out a public testing program for a secret new piece of Switch software. It filled...
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The Internet Reacts To Nintendo’s Alarm Clock That Only Works For Single People
Leave it to Nintendo to psych out fans who are already hyped up about an impending Switch 2 reveal by announcing a fancy alarm clock instead. Alarmo will wake you up to sounds of Mario coins and...
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Halo Moves To Unreal, Nintendo Announces…An Alarm Clock, And More Of The...
This week, YouTuber and Kick streamer Jack Doherty crashed his $US200,000 McLaren sports car while broadcasting, an event which has seen him banned from the latter platform permanently. Also, The...
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