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 ...

Jason learned to read playing Pokemon Crystal on the Game Boy Color, and hasn't looked back. He received a Journalism degree at California State University, Fullerton while working on news coverage ...

Making levels in Super Mario Maker - the Wii U's powerful creative suite that's out today (September 11) is easy. Making good levels, however, is much more difficult. There are lots of things to ...

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 ...

At E3 2015 the world got its first real taste of how hilarious it can be to watch players struggle through tricky, brutally hard, and downright mean custom-made Mario levels. All of us will get a ...

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 ...

Note: You can check out GammaSquad’s review guidelines by clicking here. For decades now, gamers have dreamt of crafting their very own original Super Mario Bros. stages, and, for just as long, ...

Super Mario Maker 2, thankfully, has far less console drama to deal with. The Switch is wildly successful, and it's obvious Nintendo learned a lot from the failure of the Wii U. Now, it has a system ...

People have done incredible things with Super Mario Maker on their Nintendo Wii Us. They’ve dipped into different genres, like shoot’em ups. They’ve composed music. Now, a user who goes by Helgefan ...

The original Super Mario Maker debuted on the ill-fated Wii U in 2015, and it also made an appearance on the 3DS (with the sad omission of online support). As I noted in my preview of Mario Maker 2, ...

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There have been over two million attempts to beat a Mario Maker level called Lucky Draw, and seemingly all of them have failed because, well, they just haven’t gotten lucky enough yet. As first ...