It seems Hideo Kojima's epic deliver 'em up Death Stranding has had a successful initial launch but, in terms of physical sales in the UK, it didn't shift quite enough boxed copies to make to the top of the UK Charts. Death Stranding is the...

The pocket rally that is Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour continues to travel the globe, having stopped off in New York City, Tokyo and, my favourite capital city, Halloween. Today sees Nintendo's mobile racer come skidding into the romantic loca...

Luigi's Mansion 3 may not have succeeded in knocking Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare off of the top of the UK Charts, but the spooky-ooky title has still been a huge success, with the Switch release proving to be Nintendo's bigges...

The picture going into the holiday season is looking rosy for Nintendo. With the Switch Lite selling well, a hit new game on store shelves, and the impending launch of Pokémon Sword & Shield, it's more than likely the c...

Due to its recent financial results posting, Nintendo has updated its software sales totals, and the results are nothing but good news for the company. As usual Mario Kart reigns supreme, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe pushing over 19.01 mil...

Despite the 'net being awash with memeriffic gifs, screengrabs and videos of the less-than-main event state of 2K Games' WWE 2K20, the latest release in the annual wrestling sim series still found its way into the UK Charts, landing at numb...

Waluigi just can't catch a break. Just when it seemed like he would become the focal point for Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour, along comes the King of the Road Rage himself, Luigi, to steal the boy's thunder. WAAAAH!Conspicuous by his absence i...

It was a good week for Nintendo this week, as a string of new Switch releases made their presence known in the UK Charts, though all of these titles ultimately failed to dislodge Electronic Arts FIFA 20 from the top slot, which it has now h...

Although Mario Kart Tour was a huge letdown for a lot of people (myself and our own CJ Andriessen included), Nintendo is still going with its "tour" concept, bringing new stages and characters into the mix in a rotating fashion. The next bi...

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 ...