It's officially been 36 years since Nintendo broke the Mario mold with a bold but very different take on the iconic red ...

Going into 1981, Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was facing a problem. Working on one of his first games ever, he hoped to use Popeye, the famed sailor of 1930s cartoons, to serve as the hero.

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Today marks the annual celebration of one of the most iconic video franchises and characters of all time. What Happened: Mario Day is celebrated annually on March 10. The holiday celebrates one of the ...

Mario, the hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, has happily kept Bowser’s forces from beating down your front door. He has bounced on the heads of more bad guys than Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Bruce Wayne, or ...

These top-rated 3D platformers show how inventive movement, exploration, and level design helped define the genre.

Thirty years after the series debuted on one of Nintendo's biggest flops, this spin-off series is one of the publisher's most ...

Mar10 Day is coming up, so let’s chat about our favorite games from the series’ long history Mario Nintendo Platformer RPG It’s time again for one of those made-up video game holidays in which we ...

Nintendo’s long-running Mario series is well-known for having a near-perfect mix of relatively easy levels to bring new players in, and incredibly difficult challenges that will test veteran players.