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Dominating Online In Mario Kart World Is Easier With The Right Vehicle Choice
11.7.2025
The abundance of characters and vehicles to race with is one of the great joys of Mario Kart World. Who wouldn’t want to drive around as Baby Mario or grind some rails as a Dolphin riding on the identical-looking Dolphin Dasher? Not every character or kart is built the same, however. Vehicles...
The Best Characters For Every Track In Mario Kart World
7.7.2025
Mario Kart World ended the legendary 11 year run Mario Kart 8 held as the “current” Mario Kart. While Mario Kart World isn’t coming out the gate with the 96 courses its predecessor received over the course of the decade, it still features a standard roster of 30 courses. This is almost on par with...
Mario Kart World Is Redemption For One Of The 1980s' Most Underrated Racing Games
18.6.2025
I spent an enormously disproportionate amount of my childhood playing one game: Buggy Boy. I have learned, in preparation for this article, that this arcade classic had a different name in the U.S. “Speed Buggy.” Pah-tooie. Ew. No. It’s Buggy Boy, and it was—until 2025—the only racing game that...
How Long Of A Ride Is Mario Kart World?
11.6.2025
The Mario Kart franchise has been entertaining us all for decades—even with sibling fights and fits of rage over losing a race from a blue shell at the last second—but Mario Kart World is the first game to go open world. There hasn’t been a truly new entry in the series since 2014's Mario Kart...
Mario Kart World: Four Essential Tips To Improve Your Racing Skills
6.6.2025
Mario Kart World is Nintendo’s most recent entry in the long-running racing franchise, and this one sports tons of characters, power-ups, and tracks, as well as an open world to explore. There’s so much packed into the experience that it should keep fans busy for years to come. But if you’re about...
Mario Kart World Was Going To Be A Switch Game But The System Couldn't Handle It
21.5.2025
The first game we officially saw running on a Switch 2 was Mario Kart World. The open-world racing game will be launching alongside the new console next month, but that wasn’t always the plan. Mario Kart World was going to be a Switch 1 game, until the devs realized the aging console couldn’t...
Mario Kart World's Wild Roster All Started With This Silly Cow Sketch
21.5.2025
Mario Kart World is an open-world racer in which you can literally drive from course to course and nearly everywhere in-between. But the only thing fans wanted to talk about after the Switch 2 exclusive got its first trailer was a cow riding a motorcycle. As it turns out, Mario Kart World’s roster...
Turn Off Car Damage In Forza Horizon 5 So You Can Race Around Like The Maniac You Are
30.4.2025
Some players adore realism in their racing games, including mechanical and cosmetic damage that forces them to drive perfectly or risk breaking down mid-race. Other folks enjoy a more leisurely racing experience that lets them get away with being a bit more reckless (or a lot more reckless). Read...
Mario Kart World's Free Roam Looks Like The Burnout Paradise Sequel I've Been Dreaming Of
17.4.2025
I’m excited to play Mario Kart World for all the obvious reasons, not least among them that it’s the first new Mario Kart in 11 years. But today’s mini Mario Kart Direct confirmed for me that I’m most interested in the Free Roam mode. It’s the Burnout Paradise sequel I’ve been waiting for since...
5 Details Fans Noticed In The New Mario Kart Trailer
16.1.2025
Right now we only know about one game for the newly announced Nintendo Switch 2: the next Mario Kart. Nintendo didn’t reveal a title, but fans are already calling the kart racer Mario Kart 9 and scanning every frame of footage we got from the announcement trailer. We’ve gathered a few of those...
Did Nintendo Just Reveal Mario Kart 9?
16.1.2025
Hello, good morning. If you missed it, Nintendo finally revealed the Switch 2 after months of leaks and teases. It’s coming out this year, has a bigger screen, magnetic joy-con controllers, and can play the original Switch’s games through backwards compatibility. Also, Nintendo may have...
Daytona USA Arcade Cabinet Was Hiding $400,000 And A Gun
30.7.2024
Daytona USA was a hit ‘90s arcade racing game by Sega that helped millions of kids pretend they were bad-ass NASCAR drivers, and sported a famous theme song that certain Kotaku editors still get stuck in their heads to this day. This week, it was discovered that one of the old cabinets was hiding...
Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses
26.6.2024
News has arrived that Forza Horizon 4's DLC is getting unlisted from all gaming stores, with the entire game getting entirely pulled from sale this December 15. This is one of the most beloved racing games—hell, most beloved games—of the last decade. And in a few months, it’ll just be gone. Why?...
PlayStation Plus Just Added 2022’s Most Stylish Arcade Racer
23.2.2024
Driving games can loosely be divided into two sub-genres: simulation and arcade. The former category includes the likes of Gran Turismo or Forza (not the Horizon series) and focus on more realistic racing. But the latter is all about fun over realism. 2022’s Need for Speed Unbound, the latest...
A Modder Has Created The Worst Way To Play Super Mario Kart
25.1.2024
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play a Mario Kart game using static camera angles? Probably not, as that sounds awful. But if you are curious, a modder has created a devious ROMhack that will let you satisfy your morbid curiosity. Read more
While Avalanche (AVAX) Sees a Surge, Investors Turn Their Eyes to a High-Demand Presale
18.12.2023
TLDR Mirai Labs, developers behind the horse racing game Pegaxy, now have a subnet on Avalanche. New Rebel Satoshi meme coin has sights on bringing a new decentralized finance era. Developers from sectors like asset tokenization, gaming, DeFi, and SocialFi have recently gravitated towards...
Say Goodbye To Your Favorite Mario Kart 8 Trick
9.11.2023
If you’ve ever played Mario Kart 8 you know that the farther behind in the race you get, the better the items the game throws your way. Some players have occasionally tried to use this fact to their advantage. No more. A pro strategy called “bagging” has been officially eradicated in Nintendo’s...
New Burnout Game On Switch Eshop Is Just A Shameless Knockoff
6.11.2023
Oh wow! Look, a new Burnout game is out now! Awesome, I love those super-fast racing games filled with vehicular carnage and big jumps. What a surprise! Oh weird, this new entry is only on the Switch eShop. And wait…oh no…Read more
This Rad Fan-Made Bloodborne Racing Game Finally Has A Release Date
1.11.2023
Last year, the creators of Bloodborne PSX, a popular fan-made demake of From Software’s beloved 2015 action role-playing game, Bloodborne (see on Amazon), made headlines announcing their next project: Bloodborne Kart. At the time, developer Lillith Walther told Kotaku that the racing game would...
Mythical Games releases mobile Nitro Nation NFT Drag Racing Game
6.10.2023
Mythical Games has launched one of its most loved games on mobile devices. Nitro Nation NFT Drag Racing is a play-to-earn game that has already seen over 100k downloads on Google’s Play Store. The game is titled Nitro Nation World Tour and is being widely endorsed by Joel Zimmerman, an Electronic...