Mario is the name of two distinct entities: the beloved Italian plumber video game icon and the series of games he stars in. This is especially true of the platforming games that made Mario a ...

Paper Mario fans talk a big game about how their storybook pop-up aesthetic Mario spinoff used to be so deep with great writing and characterization — and honestly, they weren't wrong. For the first ...

The Mario Party series kicked off in 1998 on the Nintendo 64. At that point, pitting characters from across the Marioverse was something of a new idea, though Mario Party certainly isn’t the first ...