When Mario + Rabbids creative director Davide Soliani first started working on Kingdom Battle, he was given express instructions from Ubisoft: Rabbids do not, under any circumstances, talk. “I had to ...

Mario + Rabbids was perhaps one of gaming’s most wonderful surprises, swinging rapidly in public opinion from its pre-E3 leaks to its reveal to its launch to its DLC. The bizarro combination of Mario, ...

For all its qualities, 2017’s Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was, first and foremost, a proof of concept. I mean that as a compliment. Nintendo’s plumber, Ubisoft’s stooges, and simplified versions of ...