A rising YouTube channel is making "playable games" for YouTube, and its Mario Kart interactive video is a conceptually ...

It's been 30 years since we posted our bounty about unlocking Luigi in Mario 64, so it’s time to finish this. Let’s settle our debt once and for all.

“Honestly, AI slop [pull requests] are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers,” Verschelde ...

This clip recreates a moment where a paper style character appears in a real world setting. The focus is on the visual contrast between flat design and real environment. The footage highlights ...

If you waited to grab the new Super Mario Galaxy amiibo preorder, you can get it now on Amazon for a nice little discount. Originally available for $39.99, both the Mario and Luma and the Rosalina and ...

Ubisoft has announced a major organisational restructure to refocus its initiatives and improve efficiency. In a press release, the company confirmed that it plans to "close several studios" and ...

What if you could combine the precision of a seasoned coder, the creativity of a game designer, and the analytical prowess of a top-tier researcher, all in one tool? Bold claim? Perhaps. But with the ...

Nintendo released a new update for the Switch 2 (and Switch) earlier this week, bumping the firmware up to Version 20.5.0. We noted at the time how there could be compatibility fixes, and we've got ...

If you went to our PTP Cyber Fest over the Infosec week you may have seen the PTP hack car being used as a games controller for the game SuperTuxKart (a free and open-source Mario Kart type game). You ...

A research team from Hao AI Lab at the University of California San Diego has uniquely tested artificial intelligence models—by making them play Super Mario Bros. Unlike traditional benchmarks, this ...

The big picture: Benchmarking AI remains a thorny issue, with companies often accused of cherry-picking flattering results while burying less favorable ones. Instead of fixating on math and logic ...

Thought Pokémon was a tough benchmark for AI? One group of researchers argues that Super Mario Bros. is even tougher. It wasn’t quite the same version of Super Mario Bros. as the original 1985 release ...