We can’t name Big Data the newest technology because it exists for more than ten years already but still a lot of people can’t define what is it and how it works. So, let’s get acquainted with this great tool. Read more…
There are two words we’d use to describe Super Mario Party: hilarious and inconsistent. The 20-year-old franchise is out of its awkward teens and really keen to make something of itself, graduating from the missteps of the Wii U with a fresh confidence and drawing on the successes of its youth to present a new identity to a massive, 20-million strong Switch audience.
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It’s time to get your construction hat on because Super Mario Maker 2 is coming! The original Super Mario Maker first launched four years ago on the Wii U, and since then, players have experienced hundreds of thousands of user-created courses. With Super Mario Maker 2 on the way, let’s look at what’s on offer in Nintendo’s DIY Mario course creator!
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When you think of a superhero, does Super Mario ever come to mind? With his plumber uniform, he may not look like one, but he deserves some credit. London-based designer Rob Lafratta has made this association possible, by creating superhero and supervillain versions of him and his antagonist, Wario.
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How do you make a 20-year-old video game series feel fresh? It’s a question that must regularly keep the creators of Mario –Nintendo’s EAD Tokyo –up at night. With our favorite ex-plumber already mastering go-karts, space exploration and, well, pretty much everything else in between, this mustachioed mascot has seemingly done it all before.
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Two decades ago, exploring a 3D world of polygons seemed like a far off fantasy. PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and contemporary PC games tried their best to make running through the third dimension work. While some experimental titles got close, gaming reached a major turning point in 1996 when Super Mario 64 launched with the Nintendo 64 and is arguably the best game that system ever saw (give or take a Legend of Zelda). After that June 23 worldwide release, no one would play games the same ever again.
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Super Mario games are not supposed to be scary. Between the hills with cartoon eyes and the Tanooki Suits, nobody has mistaken the Mushroom Kingdom for Silent Hill. Mario games have DNA built out of pure joy. So that just makes the rare moments of actual horror all the more memorable.
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On January 21, 1999, Masahiro Sakurai’s Super Smash Bros. launched on the Nintendo 64. Although not as critically-acclaimed as some of the later installments in the series, Super Smash Bros. shocked the world when it took characters from several different franchises and put them together in, of all things, a fighting game. Anyone who had ever played Mario and wished that they could beat up Kirby had their wish granted in what had previously only been imagined in fever dreams.
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With the release of Super Mario Maker 2, I thought now would be a perfect time to dive into the Super Mario franchise to find those few tracks which could use some extra love. Here are eight tracks that deserve your attention.
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He grabs every coin he sees. He sacrifices Yoshi to get a few extra feet of air. He shows up to exotic locations impersonating a plumber, fixing nary a drainage leak, like some ’70s porn star interested in cleaning a different set of pipes.
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