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Nintendo's newly announced Mario Maker is such an obvious idea that it's surprising it's taken so long. As anyone familiar with LittleBigPlanet can attest, or nearly any platformer with even a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Case in point: ‘Pit of Panga: P-Break’. To help filter out truly impossible designs, Super Mario ...

If you thought that Nintendo had done all they could with Super Mario Maker, then boy I’ve got some news for you. Revealed during today’s Super Mario Maker 2 Direct, Nintendo showed off the new Moon ...

Today, I wrote my very own level of Super Mario Bros. at E3. Featuring a pyramid of goombas, several randomly placed pipes, a dozen mystery blocks in a row and countless coins scattered throughout, my ...

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 ...

But just how did TASBot—and the team of coders behind it—intend to turn an old game of Super Mario World, running on a standard SNES, into a heavily editable game of Super Mario Maker? Luckily, we had ...

There’s something about accomplishing a Herculean task that just stirs the soul, whether it’s an epic feat of athleticism or intellectual rigor, or hey, even beating a fanatically difficult, sinister ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...