» All 493 Pokemon

Super Mario Galaxy

RSS

View as:
Thumbnail
Blog

May 26, 2008

The Top 7 - Fruitless Endeavors

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Ever slogged away at a game for hours only to find that there's nothing waiting for you at the end of it? Or just the chance of doing it all again with a different character? Here are our top 7 worst rewards in gaming ... » Read More

May 25, 2008

The coolest, funniest gaming images on the web

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

If evidence were ever needed of how culturally important games are these days, it's in the world of art. Between painters, photographers, comic writers and sculptors, the internet is packed to bursting with artists paying tribute to gaming and putting their own spin on our favourite iconography. Here's some of the best stuff we've found. ... » Read More

May 8, 2008

Has the Wii really improved anything?

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

All of Nintendo's main franchises are now out on the Wii, so it's time to take stock. We compare the new versions with their predecessors to weigh up whether motion control has revolutionised anything at all. ... » Read More

Mar 27, 2008

The world's best counterfeit games

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Not happy with what the devs are doing with your favourite games? Then let the gamers take over production. ... » Read More

Mar 10, 2008

The 21 Hardest Nintendo games ever

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

From the stinging paper cuts delivered by their early Hanafuda cards, to their dual screen screammaker Contra 4, Nintendo have been responsible for a downpour of tricky titles to douse even the most resilient gamer's spirit. Join us as we descend Jacob's ladder through the circles of hell, into the belly of the Game Over beast. ... » Read More

Mar 4, 2008

If games were dreams, what would they mean?

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Dreams have been analysed for centuries to try to ascertain the meaning behind their symolism. But what if games were dreams? We've put several famous games' iconography through the same sytems to see whether any of it makes sense. And here are the deep, meaningful and sometimes painfully accurate results. ... » Read More

Feb 27, 2008

Gamers rock out!

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

When aspiring musicians and the internetz collide, it often results in some of the most unholy power combos the universe has ever seen. We’d even go as far to say that most of these mighty Gods of Rock surpass real-world supergroups like Velvet Revolver and Damn Yankees. YouTube alone holds a treasure trove of musical gems, and these are some of our very most favoritest. And yes, we're including the hand farter. ... » Read More

Feb 25, 2008

The Sexy Sexy Babes of WonderCon

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

GDC, SchmeDC. Nothing against Will Wright and Co., but with the degree of fandom and spandex tushy on display, WonderCon is truly the place to be. Where else can you see drool over a scantily-clad female Naruto, while chuckling at morbidly obese Han Solo. No where, dammit! Onward: ... » Read More

Feb 11, 2008

The Top 7... Game bad guys you didn't want to kill

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

We've killed billions of bad guys since taking up videogames. But we did actually feel bad about some of them, honest. Here they are. ... » Read More

Jan 10, 2008

Cartoon Spin-Offs: The good, the bad and the WTF!?

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Jan 10, 2007 We're all used to seeing games make the jump from small screen to silver screen. But getting sprinkled with a little Hollywood magic isn't the only way that our favourite game characters can be packaged to appeal to a broader audience. Every so often virtual heroes of gaming dodge the bright lights of a blockbuster movie (or, indeed, a veritable cinematic craptacular) and find themselves transformed into a cartoonified persona. But which of gaming's iconic faces have been treated ... » Read More

Jan 9, 2008

The Sexual Politics Of The Mushroom Kingdom

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

9th Dec, 2008 Just what in the hell is going on with Mario and Peach? It was so simple back in the old NES days of Super Mario Bros. She got herself kidnapped, he went after her with the help of Luigi, and all ended happily ever after. Or so we thought. The thing is that it didn't really. It's become ever more apparent that since that first rescue things have only ever got messier, dirtier and more manipulative in their relationship. Far from the innocent damsel and hero set-up that appeared ... » Read More

Dec 20, 2007

2007 - The best gaming year ever

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

20th Dec, 2007 Gaming is an up and down experience. Some years cram top quality titles into our every orifice until were bursting with videogame joy and have excess polygons dripping messily out of our ears, while some other years… Well, some other years are 1983. In 2007 though, weve had a very good year indeed. A scarily good year in fact. One which has provided us so much brilliance on every format that its a genuine worry that the laws of karmic balance will soon bring us a plague ... » Read More

Dec 10, 2007

Super Mario Galaxy: One month on

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Dec 10, 2007 Its not easy giving out scores like 10. Its hard to be sure youve got it right. Imagine it like Star Treks warp drive: as we gingerly wrench the score lever past the 9 mark, the ship starts shaking and rattling; the alarms wail; your crew members exchange worried looks, visibly wondering if this is really a good idea. But when we reviewed Super Mario Galaxy, we just knew. Its a kind of combination of the visuals, the sounds, the level design, the challenges, that Nintendo ... » Read More

Nov 21, 2007

Super Mario Galaxy - 120 Stars

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Nov 21, 2007 You're undoubtedly one of the millions who're trying to collect all 120 stars in Mario Galaxy, and, just for you, we've spent hours collecting them all in one handy place. There's a video for each galaxy, each boss and all of the Luma galaxies that litter the hub area. We're assuming you can get the first Grand Star on your own. For your own reference, there are six kinds of stars: Power Stars (the most abundant) Grand Stars (from boss battles) Prankster Comets (traveling the ... » Read More

Nov 16, 2007

Why Super Mario Galaxy is a wake-up call for...

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

16th Nov 2007 Super Mario Galaxy is a near perfect game. If you dont already know that, then youll find out soon (And you will be making the effort to find out, wont you?). More than merely being an all round fantastic experience though, the game acts as a timely reminder of some elements of game design all too frequently missing now. It also points out a couple of new ones which should be taken note of immediately. Its not just the fact that Super Mario Galaxy marks both the return and ... » Read More

Jun 4, 2007

100 Deaths of Mario

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

If you have a thing for the grim and morbid, then you'll feel right at home as we've dug up 100 deaths of our beloved Mario. You should know, however, that these deaths do not make up every death Mario's succumbed to in the last 26 years. That would just be too much for us - the bereaved - to handle. Grab a hanky and ... » Read More

Aug 1, 2006

What the hell were we thinking?!?!

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Chaos, mayhem, uproar and riots. That's what GamesRadar seems to have triggered with last week's feature, "The Ten Greatest Years in Videogame History ". We might as well have burned down the internet, for all the email and forum flaming we inspired. Some folks praised us, some wanted us crucified, and one called us "wankers", ignoring that the feature only covered the US market. Granted, we set ourselves up. We knew this feature was so vast, so subjective and so dependent upon reader ... » Read More

Jul 27, 2006

The ten greatest years in videogame history

Wii Feature | Super Mario Galaxy

Three weeks ago, our sibling site NextGen posted the article, "The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming." It was full of cool industry info, but the first thing we asked was, "So, the PlayStation was first designed as an add-on for the SNES. We get the irony, but what were we actually playing in 1993 that made it so great?" We checked it out. We made a huge list of the best games of the past 34 years, taped it to the wall, and fought for days about stuff like whether one Zelda is worth more than two ... » Read More

The Knowledge