After “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” powered up to over $1.3 billion at the global box office, Nintendo has announced two brand new original video games in the Mario universe. “Super Mario Bros. Wonder,” out Oct. 20, is a psychedelic 2D platformer ...

Though the genre has since exploded, 2D platforming arguably owes its start to Super Mario. And even though it’s been 40 years since the first game came out, few 2D platformers have risen to the level of some of the best Mario titles. It is, for better ...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder was an unfiltered banger. From its visual style to the barrage of new ideas found in almost every level, it was everything we wanted after a few too many New Super Mario Bros. But I’m convinced the series peaked with Super Mario ...

Just a few minutes into playing the Super Mario Bros. Wonder demo at Nintendo Live 2023 in Seattle, I knew I was playing something special. For the first time in a long time, a 2D Mario game — 2.5D to be more accurate — felt, well, new. It’s also the ...

If you uploaded a Super Mario Maker course with cheap hidden blocks, unfair enemy placement, or just overall haphazard design, I'm sorry to say that Nintendo might have judged you for it. During Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. Wonder panel at GDC, legendary ...

To talk of return to form, it suggests that Mario’s recent 2D outings before this weren’t very good. I don’t think that’s entirely fair, as the New Super Mario Bros (NSMB) games, first pioneered on DS and then expanded on every subsequent machine ...