The company actually delivered. 3D gaming has never been fully realized before this. Super Mario 3D Land represents the first 3DS title to fully make use of the system’s capabilities.

In other words, they're defined by levels like Super Mario 3D Land's 8-1. Here I am, on the trail of the second of three Star Medals, and I've managed to get my head stuck in a question mark block.

That’s what Super Mario 3D Land is looking for. Despite the simplicity to the concept of a little guy jumping from a thing to another thing, 3D Land has so many different techniques and styles ...

The last time we played Super Mario 3D Land, we came away confident that Nintendo was taking its mascot forward, as our preview explained. That was based on a four level demo but we've since ...

If you came along to Eurogamer Expo 2011, you may have fiddled with a four-level taster of Super Mario 3D Land. Last week, Nintendo offered up what appeared to be a full build of the game at a ...

Super Mario 3D Land puts the plumber though his paces with yet another search-and-rescue mission to find a missing princess. Along the way it successfully translates the classic, 2D Mario feel ...

You'll even be able to gain new Mystery Block challenges from other Super Mario 3D Land owners via StreetPass, a good way to build up Star Medals that you'll need in order to access later levels.

We're only about two weeks away from the release of Super Mario 3D Land yet we're still learning more. Nintendo's new platformer packs 3D concepts into 2D gameplay, but it also does so much more ...