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A reader looks back at his favourite water-based levels in older video games, from Donkey Kong Country to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

KingDwarf is go-go royalty, presiding over the twin realms of nightlife in Los Angeles and Hyrule in Tears Of The Kingdom.

The best Mario songs are able to transport you to the magical Mushroom Kingdom and beyond. Most of these tracks are iconic.

For a long time, the word “Nintendo” was synonymous with gaming, and Nintendo has always been shorthand for Mario. The Japanese console mainstay

Meta Knights Revenge scores big - The 64th Annual Grammy Awards took place in Las Vegas last night and it was a big one f...

Relight my fire - Hands up now, who honestly thought wed be getting brand new DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in 2022? We cer...

Random: Theres A New Hill In London, And People Think It Looks Like Super Mario 64 Share: "What on earth do you mean," we hear you say, "by a new hill?" Trust us, were as baffled as you are. It turns out that The Powers That Be (Westminster Council) commissioned a £2 million hill next to Marble Arch, for some reason, and yesterday, the 26th of June, was the launch day (although how exactly one "launches" a hill is unclear). Visitors, tourists, and mound fans were expected to pay £8 (EIGHT! PO...

When Four Tet announced on Twitter in March 2015 that his next gig would be a back-to-back DJ set with Skrillex, some fans thought it was an early April Fool’s joke. The pairing was surprising, to say the least: Four Tet, the revered producer unspooling intricate rhythms unto “serious” warehouse heads, and Skrillex, the EDM supernova who made “filthy drops” part of dance music vernacular as the American face of a new, head-banging breed of U.K. dubstep? How it even began is unclear, t...

And is the Triple Jump the best jump? 23 January 2021 still the best in gaming? Load up the game and youre dropped back at Peachs Castle entrance, with the shush of that distant waterfall. The flitter of birds between trees. That green hillock and that blue sky and a specific, familiar sense of calm. Then you wind up your first triple jump - wah! HOOHoo! - and release it - YAhoo! And now its all :o and mouth agape and I seriously think this one move alone m...