We may earn a commission from links on this page. There’s a brutal competition being waged in Mario Maker right now, and it’s inspiring people to make the most hellish Mario Maker courses they can ...

Super Mario, a plumber who became the most famous video game character ever, has been overcoming incredible odds for decades. He has braved dark sewers and haunted castles, he’s driven on rainbow ...

People have been using Super Mario Maker to recreate levels from games like Mega Man and Contra, but it isn’t often we see a more recent release revisited. However, Layne has taken on that challenge ...

Did you design your own course in Super Mario Maker and upload it to the Wii U game’s online servers? If so, I’ve got good news for you: Someone has completed it. While posting your personal creations ...

Less is more. That's the advice Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka, who's worked on dozens of Super Mario games since 1985's Super Mario Bros., offered when I asked him what makes a good Mario level. "In Mario ...

Oh, you’ve been playing nearly impossible kaizo levels or 20-second speedruns? Sounds great. Me, I just played a Super Mario Maker 2 level where Mario comes back from the army with PTSD. Mario Maker ...

What happens when you combine Michel Ancel, creator of the Rayman game series, with Nintendo's Super Mario Maker? Probably some darn ingenious levels. Super Mario Maker, coming this September, is ...

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It’s a level we all know, some of us by heart: the 1-1 level of Super Mario Bros. — arguably the first, perfectly executed in-game-tutorial-you-didn’t-know-was-a-tutorial. The level is precious.

The Georgia Institute of Technology Research is developing an "artificially intelligent system" that can build Mario stages by watching YouTube or Twitch videos. Nintendo is making significant efforts ...

Super Mario Maker 2, one of GameStop's most pre-ordered games of E3 2019, has been receiving a lot of attention from Switch owners and Twitch streamers as of late, and the Mario Maker community is ...