With its Direct behind us and the Mario Kart World hype train going full steam ahead, I thought it'd be fun to reminisce on the game that defined the series for the past 11 years. Out of the 96 ...

Thanks to the unassailable algorithm, YouTube figured I might want to watch the Mario Kart 8 Direct from April 30, 2014 — a month before the game debuted on the ill-fated Wii U. I actually wrote ...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was released for the Switch on April 28th, and in the days following its appearance, YouPorn saw a significant drop in traffic among users they identified as gamers.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe may not always be at number one in these charts, but it's the undisputed king of Switch games as the console's best-selling title by an enormous distance. According to Nintendo ...

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(At the very least, they’re more likely to return than Isabelle, Link, and the other crossover characters that were in Mario Kart 8.) Below we list every confirmed character in Mario Kart World ...

Before we get into Mario Kart World itself, I think a quick overview of Mario Kart 8 is necessary, because the prior game informs a lot of World's rendering choices. Mario Kart 8 runs at 720p on ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Nintendo Direct Mario Kart World is now over, but you can watch it in full below. You can also check out all of our coverage of the major ...

The Mario Kart Direct on April 17, 2025, finally gave us a glimpse at some of the vehicles from Mario Kart World ahead of the game's release. The latest entry in Nintendo's long-running racing ...

More people have managed to take Mario Kart World out for a test drive, and new discoveries are now popping up online. This includes what appears to be a pilotable hovercraft-like attachment for ...