Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Thursday's reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 only showed the hardware playing one game: ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the somewhat underwhelming Super Mario 3D All-Stars back ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Friday's Nintendo Direct, the company's regular promotional livestream, celebrated the ...

Wahoo! March 10 is National Mario Day, which honors one of the most iconic video game characters ever created… Mario. The date, when written as “Mar10,” kind of resembles the name “Mario” (see it?) — ...

Our boy Mario is joining the Thanksgiving festivities, folks! Nintendo of America and Macy’s have announced that a new Mario character balloon will make its debut at the 99th annual Thanksgiving Day ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Paper Mario was released in Japan 25 years ago today, August 11, 2025. Below, we look back at how the dynamic battle system and an unusual approach to ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

World 1-1. We’ve all run, jumped, and brick-bashed our way through that familiar first stage. It seems so simple and second-nature to us now, but in this modern age of iterative entertainment, it is ...

If you asked any Nintendo fan prior to the reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, they’d likely tell you that the world would never see a sequel for Mario Kart 8. Why would Nintendo bother? A full decade ...

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During the course of developing Mario Kart World, the team making it were confronted with an important, potentially existential question: Does Mario, in fact, eat mushrooms? Meaning, do Super ...