The Taj Mahal built in snow? Aizuwakamatsu Castle? Taiwan’s National Palace Museum in ice? Meh! (OK, all these are pretty cool, but stick with me.) The Sapporo Snow Festival isn’t only frozen famous landmarks, it also showcases some of the geekiest snow sculptures on Earth. More »
Nathan Drake has recently purchased a new MacBook, after talking to several of his friends about it for several weeks. He has done more discussing the MacBook than he has actually using it, and secretly he enjoys causing the icons to sort of ‘pop’ along the bar at the bottom of the screen more than he enjoys operating the various applications that have come with his new Apple experience. More »
Mario is a boozehound. Luigi loves photo bombs. Peach is vain. Some of gaming’s greatest characters get classic (and clever) Facebook pic parodies. More »
Take off those Nintendo-coloured goggles and you’ll see Bowser isn’t a giant lizard. He’s adorable. More »
Game music can show up in the most random places. Rarely, however, does it involve rock bands in bad wigs. More »
Olly Moss does it again with these great posters for a very different, though still very Japanese take on the Mushroom Kingdom. More »
In Dec. 2011, a report surface claiming that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said he was retiring. Nintendo quickly commented, saying the report was a “misunderstanding” and “absolutely not true.” See, Shigeru Miyamoto is apparently always saying he’s going to retire. More »
Internet magician Freddie Wong shows why the fire flowers of the Mushroom Kingdom are not the fire flowers of Planet Earth. We simply cannot handle that kind of power in three dimensions. Or with our highly flammable clothing. More »
Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy “video game photographer” behind the website DeadEndThrills, I’ve been sharing some of his work each week here. More »
In the last few months, Nintendo put out a couple of Mario games — namely, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7. But Nintendo isn’t finished. There’s another Mario title on the horizon; it wasn’t publically known until today. More »
