A new adventure looms in Nintendo and Ubisoft's crossover series, but do the new tools and tactics make Sparks of Hope a spark of brilliance?

When a game hits on a good idea, some developers are content to play it safe for the sequel, making a few refinements but largely stick to what worked the…

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope doesn’t release until Thursday, October 20, but the review embargo lifts today. However, I’m still journeying through Mario’s latest tactical crossover, so I’m not…

Building off the hype of the recently released teaser for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo has given us a new look at their upcoming Mario crossover game, Mario +…

We sat down with Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope producer Xavier Manzanares to talk about how the team has improved this sequel over its predecessor.

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. But now,…

With Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope on the horizon, Ubisoft wants to throw the tactics doors open wide: to still be a gateway to the genre for new players,…

Mario + Rabbids creative director Davide Soliani has been at Ubisoft for a long, long time. He’s been there so long his first game was Rayman for the Game Boy…

Ubisoft has a daunting task in Sparks of Hope: sparking a big enough Bob-ombshell to properly surprise us as it did with Kingdom Battle. But after about four hours of…

Though Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope builds on the core idea of its predecessor, Kingdom Battle, its formula makes some big departures too. Most notably, Sparks of Hope outright…