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...

Honey Queen has it rough. She was riding (flying) high in the Galaxy series, but after he one cameo in Mario Kart 7, she was unceremoniously cut in 8; not even the DLC was gracious enough to bring her back into the fold. She's even cut...

After a bumpy start to its mobile strategy with the quickly forgotten -- and soon to be no more -- Miitomo and the underperforming Super Mario Run, Nintendo has really hit its stride. Fire Emblem Heroes is arguably one of the best...

I am fond of a video game mashup or two, so I was stoked when I heard 2 Mello (the composer for 2064: Read Only Memories) was releasing a Streets of Rage mashup album this week. When it came out on Tuesday, I downloaded it right away for li...

Nintendo dropped another update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe last night. It's a good'un! The major new feature coincides with yesterday's Nintendo Switch 4.0 firmware update that enables 30-second video capture for select games. Mario Kart 8 Del...

Boy, there have been a lot of anniversaries lately that have been making me feel old. A few days ago it was GoldenEye’s 20th anniversary that reminded me of the fun times I had playing four-player deathmatch with people I no longer sp...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is one of those games you can pick up and play pretty much at any time. Whether I'm by myself trying to best a time trial or friends come over and want to play a random Switch game, I'm usually there humming the theme so...

Despite everything cool I saw at E3, an official Nintendo-licensed Mario Kart VR was the most pleasant surprise of the year for me. It sounded too good to be true. A few of us in the press room had to do a triple take to believe it wasn't s...

Mario Karate Arcade GP VR (that's a mouthful) will be making its way to Bandai Namco's VR ZONE, when it opens in Shinjuku this Friday, July 14. If the name isn't obvious, this is Mario Kart's jump into virtual reality. It runs on an HT...

It's still weird to see Mario Kart 8 Deluxe get updates that the original Mario Kart 8 could easily have, but that ship has sailed now. That good ship Wii U has sailed into the fog, yes, never to be seen again. They give it less l...