"There's always a loose end, trailing off into the distance": Inside the mind of a Metroidvania creator and how they spin up mysteries

Along the way, ideas emerged in various ways. Some grew out of unintentional bugs, including one that allowed players to die ...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie star Jack Black says fans of the classic Wii game will be "very pleased" with the new movie

The voice behind Bowser says fans of one of the best Mario games ever have much to look forward to in next year's animated ...
The Escapist

CZR Drums completes world-first Drum% Super Mario 64 1-Star run thanks to newly discovered tech

Using only a drum set at his controller, CZR Drums completed the world’s first 1 Star Drum% Speedrun of Super Mario 64 this ...

Without Super Mario Bros, Hideo Kojima "probably" wouldn't have become a game dev: "When I saw that… I felt this medium would one day surpass movies"

Elsewhere in the chat, Kojima cited Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa as film directors who influenced him greatly, but none more than John Carpenter. "He defied ...

3 weeks after a game-changing Super Mario 64 speedrunning hack was discovered, streamer sets new world record for beating the game with just one star on a drum kit

About three weeks ago, blindfolded speedrunning prodigy Bubzia shared a newly discovered Super Mario 64 hack he predicted ...

The Best Game of 2025

From long-awaited sequels to brand new RPG worlds, 2025 had plenty of great games, but which was the best of the year?