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Damn, Mario Kart World Looks Awesome
18.4.2025
Mario Kart World was the very first game we ever saw running on a Switch 2. And from that moment, we here at Kotaku have been impressed by the open-world kart racer’s visuals. Read more
Tomorrow's Mario Kart World Direct Will Be Short
16.4.2025
On April 17, Mario Kart World is getting a Direct dedicated exclusively to the upcoming open-world kart racer. But if you were hoping for a deep and in-depth dive into he first Switch 2 game revealed by Nintendo, you might want to reset those expectations; Nintendo has confirmed the video...
Fans Are Spamming Nintendo's Mario Kart World Livestream Begging It To Drop The Price Of The Switch 2
3.4.2025
Fans had been waiting months for Nintendo’s big Switch 2 Direct. But one thing that’s dominated the conversation following the showcase isn’t the games or the features, it’s the Switch 2's $450 price tag. Now fans are spamming the YouTube chat for the company’s ongoing Nintendo Treehouse livestream...
Lego's New Mario Set Is The Best One Yet
10.3.2025
Mamma mia, Mario, your new Mario Kart Lego set looks wonderful! And the large set, which was just officially revealed by Lego after a few leaks, might just be the best Nintendo-themed build yet! Read more
Hear Me Out, Mario Kart 9 Should Be An RPG
20.1.2025
Nintendo made an interesting decision with Mario Kart 8. They chose to make it so good, and so comprehensive, that it removed the need to make any more. It has now been over ten years since Mario Kart 8 first released, more than double the length that’s ever come between an entry in the series...
Nintendo Reveals $20 Off Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom And More Switch Black Friday Deals
12.11.2024
With Thanksgiving just a couple of weeks away, Nintendo has announced its Black Friday 2024 highlights. While there aren’t any standout deals among them, there’s still some decent discounts for anyone who was planning on buying a new Switch or a critically acclaimed game from the console’s back...
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Is Getting Replaced By A Poorer Version For A Huge Fee
28.10.2024
In August 2024, Nintendo’s free-to-play mobile incarnation of Animal Crossing was announced to be coming to an end this November. It’s now been revealed that its replacement, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, will appear December 3, and ditch all of the 2017 game’s microtransactions for...
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...
This Is The Best Mario Kart 8 Build, According To Math
23.4.2024
You ever play Mario Kart 8 and get absolutely dusted by your friends? Maybe, after losing all four races in a single cup, you take your build back to the garage, tinkering with the stats in an effort to create the fastest racer your friend group has ever seen. Well, science has now given us...
Kotaku Asks: What’s The Best Mario Game?
8.3.2024
It’s time again for one of those made-up video game holidays in which we celebrate a long-running franchise. This time, it’s Mar10 Day, or Mario Day. On March 10, Nintendo celebrates the Super Mario franchise’s long history and even puts some games and merch on sale. But if we’re going to reflect...
Mario Kart Tour Will No Longer Get New Updates
11.9.2023
After four years of updates, Nintendo has announced that its mobile racing game Mario Kart Tour will no longer receive new content after October 4.Read more
True Horror Is Mario Kart x Resident Evil's Camera Angles
10.7.2023
The original Mario Kart isn’t the easiest game in the series, especially if you weren’t raised on its Mode 7-induced peculiarities, but that’s a relative thing. It’s fine, it’s still easy to look at, it’s easy to play, that’s why they’re still selling trillions of copies of Mario Kart games to this...
Fire Emblem Heroes Becomes Nintendo’s First Billion-Dollar Mobile Game
1.7.2022
I’ll admit that, until yesterday, I had no idea Fire Emblem Heroes was still active and updated. But a lot of people are still playing the game and apparently spending money on it, too. New data shows that Fire Emblem Heroes has just reached $1 billion in revenue, becoming the first Nintendo mobile...
Mario Kart 8 Connoisseurs Are Already Dissecting Its Newest Courses
17.3.2022
Five years after it came to Switch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is about to get eight new race tracks as part of its Booster Course Pass DLC, and players are already parsing whether they look deluxe enough. The consensus? There isn’t any, at least not yet.Read more
Mario Kart NFT Idea Is The Worst Thing I Have Ever Read
1.11.2021
Bloomberg Wealth has a major feature up today called “Into the Metaverse: Where Crypto, Gaming and Capitalism Collide”. It is as critical and as informative as you’d guess something coming from a finance site would be, but there’s one section in particular that will haunt me, and now you, for...
And Now, Mario Kart Tracks In Flight Simulator
30.8.2021
We’ve seen how well Microsoft’s Flight Simulator handles interpreting real-world objects and landmarks, but what about something a little more…racy? Modder Illogicoma thought it would be neat to try importing Mario Kart tracks into the sim, and they’re right. It’s very neat.Read more
What If Mario Kart, But Terrible Asks GTA Online
20.8.2021
When I saw the first images of Grand Theft Auto Online’s new Kart Krash mode, I was intrigued. It looked like Rockstar’s take on a kart racer, poised to infuse Los Santos with some outlandish fun. Sadly, while this new mode does feature karts and power-ups, it’s not about racing, but instead about...
The Nintendo 64 Is Now 25 Years Old
23.6.2021
On June 23, 1996, the Nintendo 64 went on sale in Japan. The console is now 25 years old. Twenty-five! Can you believe it?Read more
Super Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
7.6.2021
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis....