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Mario Kart World: Every Question Mark Panel Location On Koopa Troopa Beach
14.7.2025
Mario Kart World’s free-roam feature has plenty to do, but finding the question mark panels located around each track is one that stands out the most. These are fun to find and they’ll even reward you with stickers, so you won’t want to miss them if you’re aiming to fully complete the game. And...
Mario Kart World Has Some Fantastic SNES-Era Throwback Tracks You Need To Try Out
10.7.2025
394 P-Switch challenge missions might just be the biggest time sink in Mario Kart World’s Free Roam mode. These missions can involve anything from collecting a certain number of blue coins to navigating around an obstacle course using a particular item. Seven of these tasks that particularly stand...
The Best Characters For Every Track In Mario Kart World
7.7.2025
Mario Kart World ended the legendary 11 year run Mario Kart 8 held as the “current” Mario Kart. While Mario Kart World isn’t coming out the gate with the 96 courses its predecessor received over the course of the decade, it still features a standard roster of 30 courses. This is almost on par with...
Mario Kart World Has A Whole Bunch Of Extra Characters For You To Unlock
3.7.2025
One of the biggest additions to Mario Kart World is the addition of loads of enemies and NPCs as kart drivers to help expand the game’s already massive roster. From Sunshine’s Piantas to the football gear-clad Chargin’ Chuck, there’s loads of new drivers to unlock that have never been playable...
Here’s Every Mario Villain Outfit You Can Collect In Mario Kart World
2.7.2025
Remember when Bowser wore the white tuxedo and cap in Super Mario Odyssey and The Super Mario Bros. Movie in his attempt to marry Princess Peach? He doesn’t have that outfit in Mario Kart World, but he still has a ton of other cool fits that are as overpowering as they are fashionable, like Biker...
How To Unlock Bowser Jr. In Mario Kart World
25.6.2025
There are multiple ways to unlock new characters from the massive roster in Mario Kart World, so you may feel just a bit lost when you first start looking for some of your favorites. If Bowser Jr. is on the list of characters you’d like to race with, though, you’re in luck: You can snag this...
Meet Mario Kart World's Biggest Bastard
11.6.2025
Lakitu, the cloud-riding Koopa, has been the backbone of Mario Kart since the vary beginning, flashing the lights that kick off a race and retrieving errant drivers from out-of-bounds areas. Mario Kart World marks his biggest role yet by making him one of its playable racers, but it’s out on...
Mario Kart World's Free Roam Looks Like The Burnout Paradise Sequel I've Been Dreaming Of
17.4.2025
I’m excited to play Mario Kart World for all the obvious reasons, not least among them that it’s the first new Mario Kart in 11 years. But today’s mini Mario Kart Direct confirmed for me that I’m most interested in the Free Roam mode. It’s the Burnout Paradise sequel I’ve been waiting for since...
5 Details Fans Noticed In The New Mario Kart Trailer
16.1.2025
Right now we only know about one game for the newly announced Nintendo Switch 2: the next Mario Kart. Nintendo didn’t reveal a title, but fans are already calling the kart racer Mario Kart 9 and scanning every frame of footage we got from the announcement trailer. We’ve gathered a few of those...
The Most Painful Mario Kart Finish Ever Gets The Perfect Sequel 10 Years Later
15.8.2024
We’ve all been there. You’re playing your favorite Mario Kart, cruising to a first-place victory after a cakewalk race when one little thing goes wrong and you’re suddenly staring down the barrel of a humiliating finish. This is the essence of getting Mario Karted, a term immortalized a decade...
Mario Wonder Proves Nintendo Has Perfected Weird Little Guys
27.10.2023
Everyone loves a weird little guy. Maybe it’s Danny DeVito, maybe it’s cats, maybe it’s Turgle, Meat Boy, or the Prince of All Cosmos. The longer the list of gaming’s weird little guys, the more Nintendo shows up on it. It’s been churning out weird little guys for decades. Goombas. Midna. Basically...
These Mario Wonder Infinite 1-Up Cheats Will Make You Immortal
23.10.2023
Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the latest 2D platformer from Nintendo, has already won over critics and gamers alike for its inventive new worlds and unique powers. Although Wonder supplies you with a lot of tools to ensure your first playthrough won’t be a frustrating one, there’s one trick that’s...
Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s Goombas Actually Bite, Just Like Miyamoto Always Wanted
17.10.2023
Back in the day, you might have wondered: Hey, why does Mario take damage when he bumps into a Goomba in the original Super Mario Bros.? Turns out, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto had an answer: The enemies were biting you. We just never actually saw that happen. Well, that changes in...
Apparently Bowser Is Just 34 Years Old (I’m Sorry)
6.6.2023
Video games aren’t real life, sure. I get that. But it’s still odd to realize that certain game characters who have been around for what seems like forever, aren’t actually that old. For example, according to a new video from Nintendo, Mario’s archnemesis—Bowser—is only in his thirties. Some of...
This Kid’s Talent Show Performance of Bowser’s 'Peaches' Is The Slay Of The Century
26.5.2023
When I saw the Super Mario Bros. Movie, the one moment I lost it in the theater was when Jack Black’s Bowser sang his piano-driven ballad “Peaches” midway through the movie. It was silly, pathetic, and hella catchy. This past week, a school audience got to relive that moment when a kid performed...
The Vibes Are Immaculate With Jack Black As Bowser In The Mario Movie
6.10.2022
Nobody is excited about Chris Pratt’s Normal Dude rendition of Mario in Nintendo’s upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie, but that’s perfectly okay. The disappointment is balanced out by the sheer hype we now all have after hearing Jack Black as Bowser. It sounded like perfect casting the moment it...
What’s Your Favorite Video Game Boss Encounter?
1.3.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more