Mario and Sonic, Better Together
For years, Nintendo’s Mario and Sega’s Sonic existed in an adversarial relationship … as the mascots for their respective console platforms, the idea that we’d ever see them team up […]
Faith, Works, and Super Mario: Happy “MAR10 Day”!
Thanks to the alignment of the calendar abbreviation for March and the tenth of that same month each year, we have the annual gaming holiday known as “Mar10 Day” (or […]
The Truth About Mario: Mario Under the Magnifying Glass
I am not sure there is a video game character who is more intrinsically woven into the fabric of the gaming world than Mario, the gaming icon who has spanned […]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: A “Common” Complication
Well… after seeing the Super Mario Bros. Movie achieve over 1.3 BILLION dollars in box office money before turning its’ attention to streaming and physical media releases, it is safe […]
Super Mario 3D World and Post-Game Content: Saving the Best for Last
Finishing a video game can be a bittersweet experience… the characters and story that we may have been enjoying for hours, days, months, or sometimes even YEARS is suddenly over, […]
The Undefeated Adversary… Never Enough Time: “The Endgame” (Part 2)
We all know the sound… I can’t fully articulate in a manner that will adequately convey it, but when we hear it, we just KNOW. Let me try… it goes […]
Super Mario 3D World and a Second Touch: When the Mountain Doesn’t Move (Part Three – Mark 8:22-25)
If you didn’t get a chance to play Super Mario 3D World in its’ original incarnation, then you clearly did not own one of the 20 Nintendo WiiU systems that […]
Finding God in Video Games 