The Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection is no longer for sale, and sure enough, prices of physical copies are beginning to surge online. Some scalpers are now requesting hundreds and even thousands of dollars for individual copies of Nintendo's limited-release on websites such as eBay. Nintendo Switch subreddit user, TommyFrickster789, explains how prices for new but essentially second-hand copies are already out of hand.

A copy of Super Mario Bros. for NES just sold for $660,000 at auction, making it the highest-priced video game collectible ever. The previous record holder was the prototype Nintendo Play Station, which sold through Heritage Auctions in 2020 for $360,000.

With a growing number of monthly active users, and reported talks around acquiring Discord, Microsoft could become the 'Netflix of gaming,' say analysts

An incredibly rare copy of Super Mario Bros., featuring a distinct cover with no NES trademark symbol, has just become the most expensive game collectible yet.

Yesterday, Microsoft made it possible to instantly stream a bunch of older Xbox 360 and original Xbox games to any device compatible with Game Pass. It’s another piece of evidence that Microsoft is taking backward compatibility very seriously this time around, and that Sony and Nintendo have fallen behind in a big way.

The cynical answer, according to analysts and one developer, is likely the correct one: it's to juice game sales.

The internet is freaking out over a rumor about the possible impending death of Mario, the famous, red-wearing, Italian plumber who changed the world of video games with the release of "Super Mario Bros" 35 years ago.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has new maps this morning, four months after Activision left the game behind to focus on Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. After downloading this morning's mammoth mid-season two update, Modern Warfare fans were surprised to see the Killhouse map added to Multiplayer alongside the new Killhouse 24/7 playlist.

505 Games has added a new franchise to its portfolio in the form of cyberpunk ninja action outing Ghostrunner. The company worked with Polish publisher All In Games on the game's initial release back in October 2020, and now takes full control of the IP as well as "all licenses for the technological solutions used in the game."

Chinese police seize a collection of luxury sports cars in the raid.

Sorry Sony, but in the battle of the next-gen headsets, Microsoft is the winner.

Nintendo’s golden goose is already falling behind

The game's working title is said to be Call of Duty WWII: Vanguard

Yakuza series producer Daisuke Sato has said he’d like to remaster Ryo Ga Gotoku Studio’s 2012 shooter Binary Domain. The third-person action game was released for PS3 and Xbox 360 to generally favourable reviews but disappointing launch sales, though it maintains a cult following of fans.

The company has now started testing a dashboard update that enables removes the Xbox Live Gold requirement to play free-to-play games online.

Fan favorite Ex-Bethesda Director Ikumi Nakamura has revealed that she has opened an indie studio to work on new games.

Car soccer, but for phones and tablets

Ticking time bomb?

Serious Sam, Croteam's massively over-the-top first-person shooter series, is 20 years old this week, and the developer has surprised fans by launching a substantial free update for Serious Sam 2 on PC as part of its birthday celebrations.

Yesterday, TheGamer reported that Sony has plans to shut down the online PS3, PS Vita, and PSP stores that service those older consoles. While this has yet to be confirmed, and Sony has not responded to Kotaku’s request for comment, the internet discourse around this potentially troubling news immediately began to swirl.