The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – April 3

Congratulations; you made it to the weekend! It was a busy week over here at Game Informer, and that was largely due to everything that happened on April 1. For starters, Darth Clark was resurrected and took over our news section, writing parody articles about Hideo Kojima, Palworld, the new Xbox, Nintendo, Super Monkey Ball, online shooters, the Pokémon Cubone, and Grace Ashcroft's boss. As chaotic as it was, it was nice to see him return to the site for the first time in years.

The other thing that happened on April 1, however, was the theatrical release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie! You can read our more detailed thoughts on it below, but it's always a big deal to have video game adaptations hit the big screen and, in this case, make a lot of money. Regardless of your feelings on the film, it's a big event for the industry, and it's fascinating to see reactions from fans and critics.

Of course, we also played and wrote about plenty of video games this week. Here are some of the biggest stories: