Matt Anderson (He/Him) is a Features Writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He's been gaming as far back as four years old on the original PlayStation and writing in the industry for several years.

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 ...

Devin Friend is a graduate of McNeese State University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. Starting from the day that he played Super Mario Kart on a Super Nintendo that he received as a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Paper Mario was released in Japan 25 years ago today, August 11, 2025. Below, we look back at how the dynamic battle system and an unusual approach to ...

There’s an apocryphal folktale that fans of Mario RPGs are fond of sharing. Somewhere along the line, the internet urban legend goes, someone at Nintendo — Miyamoto himself, maybe — had it out for ...

Interestingly enough, these questions hit on discussions Mario RPG fans have been having for years, including things like party members. Super Mario RPG offered a mix of classic characters like Peach ...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the perfect follow-up to Super Mario RPG that released last November. Widely regarded as the best Paper Mario game, The Thousand-Year Door is the ideal ...

Next month, Nintendo will celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of its finest games. Nintendo GameCube classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a Nintendo Switch rerelease that’s ...

In 1996, an unlikely collaboration between Nintendo and Square led to one of the greatest Japanese role-playing games ever made: Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars. Somehow, the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Super Paper Mario The newest chapter of the Paper Mario story isn't just out of this world... it's out of this dimension. What at first glance appears to be ...