A big, 40-minute Nintendo Direct is set to air tonight. Still, before the main event, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto took to the company’s Japanese Twitter/X account to reveal the release date of the next Super Mario animated film in Japan. The tweet reads: “Hello, this is Miyamoto. We will be broadcasting a Ni

We're almost one year after the premiere of Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment's Super Mario Bros. animated movie back in April 2023. Now, Nintendo has finally confirmed that there will be a new animated movie based on the world of Super Mario Bros. planned for release on 3 April 2026. https://twitter.com/Ninte

Another new Mario game means another milestone for Nintendo. While some of us thought the new Super Mario Bros. Wonder film was fine, everyone else in the world is thrilled to buy the game during its debut week of 20th October. And it shows (via Wario64)! The game sold 4.3 million units through 2 weeks after its rel

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: 2D platformer from Nintendo Nintendo has been around the block for eons, and should be one of those companies held in the highest regard and standards. So if I spot a 2D (or 3D) Mario 2D platformer that clearly is trying to get by with its new release without trying too hard, I'll k

Nintendo just released new gameplay detailing its upcoming 2D Mario game: Super Mario Bros. Wonder. The new gameplay feature shows off new power-ups, new Wonder effects from the Wonder Flower, and more. The game takes place in the Flower Kingdom, and somehow the kingdom's castle has merged with bad guy Bowser with a

During Nintendo Direct June 2023, Nintendo announced Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a brand new 2D Mario adventure. From the trailer, it looks like multiple characters will be playable, including Mario himself, Luigi, Princess Peach and most likely for the first time ever in 2D form, Princess Daisy. The next evolution

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will launch on digital platforms on 16 May 2023 in the United States of America (USA). You can pre-order the Super Mario Bros. Movie on Amazon (and other Universal-backed digital platforms) for US$29.99, which will be available from 16 May 2023 at 12 am ET (which is 12 pm GMT+8 on 16 May 202

Play all the victory fanfares for Mario here; Nintendo, Universal, and Illumination have hit the question block jackpot! The Super Mario Bros. Movie has levelled up its worldwide box office earnings to beyond US$1 billion since its 6th April launch. The film has been showing in theatres worldwide for more than three

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is on a path towards hitting $1 billion at the global box office before it even opens in Nintendo's home country of Japan. Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto said in an interview with the Japanese press, which is translated by VGC, that the animated movie's massive success surprised him, addin

Review originally published on 7th April 2023. Brought forward to coincide with the film's release in Malaysia on 20th April.  30 years ago, Nintendo was traumatized from ever making live-action film adaptations of its treasured properties after the disaster that was the Super Mario Bros. movie in 1993. The company

*cue Mario victory theme when you touch the flagpole We previously brought up huge opening sales numbers of the Super Mario Bros. film when it aired on 6th April onward. Now we can confirm that those numbers are beyond the millions worldwide, to nobody's surprise. The Super Mario Bros. Movie passes US$500 million

Illumination has released a clip of the Super Mario Bros Movie that highlights Jack Black at his finest: voicing an evil turtle named Bowser with a groovy singing voice. In this clip, he sings about how his character Bowser loves Princess Peach. If you know Jack Black's Tenacious D style of singing, you know what yo

Mama mia! Nintendo and Illumination's first film adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. franchise since 1993 has raked in US$203 million for the past 5 days in US markets (US$146+ for the first three days, another US$57 million as of right now). The film came out on 6th April. The movie's overall overseas box office sa

If you want to hear awesome remixes of Koji Kondo's 80s and 90s Mario music, look no further than this recent Spotify update. Digital music streaming services like Spotify has released the Super Mario Bros. Movie soundtrack on Spotify. No, not the licensed music nonsense: the show's actual soundtrack that features K

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is out now in the US and most parts of the world, but it's only coming out in Malaysia on 20th April. It's worth the wait especially if you're a big Nintendo gaming fan; here's our review. As such, you can expect a heckaton of Nintendo-filled homages, references, easter eggs, and callback

In the upcoming Super Mario Bros animated movie (at least in Malaysia; it's out in a number of other places), there's a segment that plays the (in)famous DK Rap from the N64 game Donkey Kong 64. Composers Grant Kirkhope and George Andreas made the song, so you would think they would get proper credit for their meme-wor

It's Mario Day right now (Mar.10), and Nintendo has a special treat for movie fans and gaming fans: a new Super Mario Bros. movie trailer. This is the third and final trailer, with Nintendo and animation studio Illumination showing off a taste of Mario and his pals fighting Koopas on the road. The Rainbow Road! The

During Super Bowl 2023, the Super Mario Bros. Movie unveiled a new teaser ad featuring the infamous Mario Rap from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! It was a live-action animated hybrid TV series that originally aired back in 1989. What's funny is that the number for Super Mario Bros. Plumbing (that's featured in th

Nintendo and Illumination's upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming out later this April, and we're seeing the marketing machine starting its promo up. This means a ton of lovely posters featuring our heroes and villains. We'll post up the ones that are up recently as well as some old ones from last year. We defi

We're only a few months away from the upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie from Illumination and a new teaser has finally revealed Seth Rogen's voice as Donkey Kong. What does he sound like? Well, he sounds exactly like... himself. Seth Rogen is essentially being Seth Rogen in the role, but that's not a surprise.