To say that Mario is pretty versatile for a plumber would be an understatement. Over his two decades of stomping Goombas, ripping Koopas from their shells and bitch-slapping Bowser, the moustachioed maestro has found time for karting, tennis, golf and football (that’s proper football where you use your feet to connect with the ball 90 per cent of the time, my American friends).
But being a hero is what he does best, and alongside consistently impressive platformers Mario has a catalogue of equally entertaining RPGs. After the Square-developed Super Mario RPG …

With memories of last year’s car crash conference still in people’s minds, Nintendo needed something special from their E3 conference for 2009 and for the most part they delivered.
Over the next few days I’ll be commenting on the big reveals from Nintendo’s LA conference, Shigeru Miyamoto’s roundtable discussion and the E3 show floor.
At the heart of Tuesday’s revelations was Mario, who was the star of four new games on both Wii and DS. The sort-of leaked New Super Mario Bros Wii opened the show as the first Mario game to …

Call of Duty 4 was the big winner at tonight’s Video Game BAFTAs, scooping three gongs out of the six it was nominated for.
Alongside the GAME Award of 2008 prize – the only one voted for by the general public – CoD4: Modern Warfare took the Story & Character and Gameplay titles.
The next biggest winner was Dead Space, which took both the audio categories – Use of Audio and Best Original Score.
The biggest loser of the night was, without doubt, Grand Theft Auto IV. Despite shifting 13 million copies since …