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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto takes Apple’s stage to introduce Super Mario Run

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo finally announced that it is introducing a new Mario game to Apple’s iOS app store for the first time.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the chief game designer at Nintendo, made the announcement at Apple’s press event in San Francisco. Super Mario Run is a new side-scrolling endless runner game designed for iOS.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.