Nintendo's mobile racing title Mario Kart Tour has pulled drifted into Tokyo, the next stop on its world tour circuit. This event brings a selection of new characters and courses to the game's grim dice-roll pipe system.From the Mario Kart ...

Nintendo's latest mobile venture Mario Kart Tour launched a fortnight ago to, well, hardly a rubber-burning critical reception. Built around a particularly egregious monetization and gacha system, combined with fairly blah gameplay, it was ...

Last year, when Nintendo first announced it would be taking Mario Kart to mobile, I was legitimately excited about the prospect. Sure, its output at the time wasn't an endless stream of home runs, but there was always the possibility i...

Controller kings Hori has released images of a pair of steering wheels in development for Switch. Officially licensed by Nintendo, the wheel features branding of the developer's most popular racing franchise, Mario Kart.The wheel and dual-p...

There's something especially insidious about Lakitu, a very cute and classic Nintendo character, telling you to gamble and rub a pipe to shoot out premium rewards. Mario Kart Tour is one of the most predatory mainstream mobile games in...

Anyone itching to get themselves on the starting grid for Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour can now do so, as the handheld racer has gone live on iOS and Android devices. Players will need to download the game and set themselves up with a Nintendo...

Mario Kart Tour is less than two weeks away and while I wasn't completely enamored with the beta I played a few months ago, the latest trailers from Nintendo have put the game back on my map. It looks like at least some of the criticis...

Two years after its release, Nintendo's kart racer Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is back at the top of the UK Charts, having overtaken rival title Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled to take the chequered flag for this week, at the very least.The acclaime...

Mario Kart Tour will be leaving beta and officially launching for mobile devices on September 25, 2019. Nintendo broke the news on Twitter with an image and not much else. You can follow the official Twitter account of the game for more in...

The long and winding Rainbow Road to the release of Mario Kart Tour is nearly complete. After announcing the game roughly a year ago and immediately going into radio silence about it, Nintendo is finally giving some players a chance to...

Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo's mobile spin-off of the popular Mario Kart series, has just entered beta for select users. While players are not supposed to be sharing media online yet, that hasn't stopped the internet from compiling a bunch of ...

Four new titles have been inducted to the World Video Game Hall of Fame for 2019, which is hosted at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The four new entries are Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Colossal Cave Adventure and,...

Remember Miitomo? Hell, remember Miis, and Miiverse/Swapnote? While Nintendo continues to reference the little-avatars-on-life-support every so often (like ancillary Smash characters or Mario Kart 8 racers) they're nearly dead and...

Although Mario Kart was always a social affair, the game completely changed when I first played a giant Double Dash party using the GameCube's LAN functionality. If you were equipped for it, you could rock 16-player Mario Kart in the same s...

Nintendo has updated its sales figures for Switch software and things are really looking up. Since its March 2017 launch, the publisher has now pushed five 10 million plus selling games. That list includes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (15....

I'm worried about Mario Kart Tour. Nintendo kicked off their mobile game initiative right, with delivering a fully-fledged title for one premium price. But it didn't work out so well for them, so they loaded up most of their other releases ...

Shade, shade all around. With the strong rumor floating about that Crash Team Racing is the next Crash remake project, I've seen a number of "yeah but it's not as good as Mario Kart" sentiments. As my photographic memory flashes b...

Slowly but surely, the United States is getting in on the Mario Kart VR action. The Vive-backed virtual reality experience has been playable in an arcade-scale setup in Japan and the UK. Now, Bandai Namco Amusement America is bringing Mari...

A few months ago, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got a surprise update that allowed for compatibility with the motorcycle accessory from Labo's "Variety Kit." With a third kit soon to hit store shelves, Nintendo is looking to further support Mario Kar...

It's amazing to see an old school community come to live decades after a game was in-demand. Mario Kart 64 was once a staple of so many households (hell it might even still be the kart game of choice for a lot of people), but for many it's ...

We've seen Mario-themed Hot Wheels before, but not like this. Mattel is coming out with a new line of Mario Kart Hot Wheels next year featuring Rosalina, Wario, Yoshi, Toad, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, and Mario. They'll be available for $4.99 ea...

Nintendo hopes to give players more reasons to return to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe this year. In a cheery little video posted today, Nintendo head of software development Shinya Takahashi spoke about the game's recent Nintendo Labo Toy-Con Motorb...

Remeber Labo? Nintendo's weird venture into papercraft that let you build a piano and then sat in the corner of your living room for a month?  Well, it has a neat new use. You can now use the Toy-Con Motorbike with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe....

For years now folks have been modding Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart DS, creating interesting new tracks to take on. Among that group is Atlas, who is probably the chief creator, constantly creating new courses and homages. This ti...

YouTube channel NintendoDuo has uploaded a fun video of beloved SNES racer Super Mario Kart, hacked to include the roster from Capcom's arcade classic Street Fighter II.Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Bison and co. all put in an appearance in place of t...