Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...

Much like in the games where it appears, having debuted in Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Blimp Fruit does exactly what fans would expect in the feature film. Yoshi picks up the power-up and inflates to ...

MARIO goes BIG! brings the classic mushroom power-up moment into a real-life action scene filled with playful energy, scale, and game-inspired fun. The video highlights Mario growing larger after the ...

Drew Swanson is a News Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, his ...

Distinguishing Mario sports games from their real-world, licensed competitors — or from Nintendo’s own Wii and Switch Sports series of motion-control games — can be tricky. Nintendo and Camelot ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” now playing in theaters. “Mario” video game fans are in for another treat with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the ...

Power-ups have always been one of the main appeals of the Super Mario games, and the animated universe crafted by Nintendo and Illumination incorporated that mechanic seemingly into the story. The ...

For nearly four decades, Nintendo’s mascot, Mario, has been fed an increasingly bizarre diet of items. The smorgasbord of power-ups is part of what keeps players coming back. Nintendo In his newest ...

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 ...