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#nintendo Three out of four Mushroom Kingdom plumbers have scored starring video game roles. The man who voices them all, Charles Martinet, wants to make it four out of four, lamenting the lack of a game starring Wario's skinny lackey, Waluigi. More »

For Super Mario Galaxy 2's soundtrack, Nintendo went all-out, recording the main theme with a 70-person orchestra. Footage of the assembled musicians playing the sweeping opening music has been released via the Japanese Nintendo Channel (watch it after the break), allowing us to see just how much more epic a piece of music is when you see it played by a room full of people. If you're wondering why Shigeru Miyamoto looks so bored, it's because there was no room in the orchestra for his banjo.

Fans of Galaxy 2's music will be crushed to learn that Japan's Club Nintendo is offering a two-disc soundtrack for just 300 points with the registration of a copy of the game. It's possible for this bonus to make its way to other regions' Club Nintendos, as the first Galaxy soundtrack did in Europe, but we'd rather take such anomalies as delightful surprises, rather than disappoint ourselves by expecting them.

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We’ve posted a few videos of Yoshi’s infinite flutter jump glitch in Super Mario Galaxy 2. In the screen past the jump, you can see Yoshi being used during a boss battle. The thing is, Yoshi isn’t supposed to be around during the battle! As you can see, Yoshi can now get invovled with [...]

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is now the highest rated video game in history... at least according to Game Rankings and its penchant for number crunching and outliers-inclusive averaging. It was a good run 1998's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, don't let the door hit you in the ass. More »

Nintendo celebrates latest release with a sweet bonus item and some commentary from Koji Kondo.

- Mahito Yokota headed up sound direction - Kondo played the role of supervisor - Ryo Nagamatsu has only been with the company for 4 years - originally, the sound team thought they would take a Galaxy 1.5 approach to the music, but quickly realized that they needed to have new music that better suited the situations that [...]

It's been two days since the launch of Wii's most brilliant sequel. What's the general consensus?

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#gameface Taken by Kotakuite FuuRe_cl at a mall in Chile. More »

#roundup What do the stars hold for our favorite plumbing protagonist in the Super Mario Galaxy 2 Frankenreview? More »

#glitches Infinite Yoshi jumps in Super Mario Galaxy 2? That ain't right. And it doesn't sound good, either. [Thanks, MASTERLINKX] More »

#shigerumiyamoto "Unless you're careful, there's a tendency for games like Mario that can be played by children to gradually become childish," warns Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. "Those making the game tend to unconsciously make them that way." More »

#wellplayed NEW YORK CITY - They were a line of two. More »

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Reader Ledfan has emailed in to show off the awesome art cel he picked up at a Best Buy launch event for Super Mario Galaxy 2. He also walked away with one of those “cinch sacks” that we showed off on the podcast. Not a bad haul for picking up the game!

Super Mario Galaxy had one of the most delightful, transportive soundtracks of any game in the current console generation, with themes both new and familiar set to a sweeping orchestral score. To show off the sequel's equally impressive accompaniment, a YouTube channel purportedly belonging to composer Mahito Yokota has uploaded every single track from Super Mario Galaxy 2 onto a single playlist.

You can listen to it here, though the tracks' names might include a few minor, minor spoilers. If you can suffer those, you're in for a full afternoon of happiness-inducing music.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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