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"How do you even do this to a leaderboard of a popular game like Super Mario Bros?": Speedrunner beats the platformer's world record by 5 seconds, the biggest jump in over a decade
By Kaan Serin published
News "That was full autopilot... It doesn't feel real."

This may be the only Super Mario Bros review that landed with the NES launch, and the magazine that called it a "special hall of fame" classic in 1986 is helping set a new standard for game preservation
By Dustin Bailey published
News "No owner of the Nintendo Entertainment System should be without this game – it's a must!"

The 10 best Kirby games to adventure through
By Heather Wald last updated
Best List With almost 30 years of adventures, here's the 10 best Kirby games to play right now

Kirby and the Forgotten Land was my 2022 GOTY over Elden Ring, and the Switch 2 upgrade DLC is giving fans flashbacks to the most notorious challenges in the series
By Dustin Bailey published
News "Oh no"

Donkey Kong Bananza is the best Hulk game ever and makes me wish for the return of destruction-oriented sandboxes
By Fran Ruiz published
Opinion Opinion | Nintendo's latest open-world game understands the primal appeal of smashing everything up

Donkey Kong Bananza's horrific poison swamp channels Dark Souls' Blighttown, but its biggest sin is making me realize how underused DK's transformations are
By Will Sawyer published
Opinion Opinion | Donkey Kong Bananza's namesakes don't get the attention they deserve

I need to know what the 190,000 people who bought a Switch 2 at launch without Mario Kart World were doing, because I refuse to believe Welcome Tour was a system seller
By Catherine Lewis published
News The vast majority of Switch 2 owners also have Mario Kart World, though

After 23 years, Pac-Man World 2 is back – I don't know if this 73 Metacritic PS2 underdog really needed a remake, but I'm happy it's getting one
By Dustin Bailey published
News Let's hear it for the 7/10 sleepers of days past
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