After more than 10 years of Mario Kart 8 dominating the market, Mario Kart World is here to shake up the series in a big way. As the name implies, Mario Kart World is set in an open world, which ...

Mario Kart World is already one of the best games of 2025, but it could still improve in a handful of key ways.

Nintendo Switch 2 will have several games to choose from at launch, including Cyberpunk 2077, Hogwarts Legacy, and Sonic x Shadow Generations. However, the system’s biggest day one game is Mario ...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is about to have a new member in its family but that hasn’t stopped Nintendo from supporting it. Today, the Big N released Ver. 3.0.4 for the decade old title.

A big sticking point seemed to be that the original Switch would have had to run the game at 30FPS. Mario Kart games have always run at 60FPS, for obvious reasons.

It might be 8 years old*, but Mario Kart 8 Deluxe continues to sell like it's a brand-new game for Switch. Case in point: The racing game sold 6.23 million copies for Nintendo's last fiscal year ...

Worldwide, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still Nintendo's best-selling Switch game at over 68.2 million sales (as of the end of March). We'll just have to see if its successor can surpass it.

Mario Kart World also has auto-accelerate, auto-use item, and tilt controls, but these are not toggled on by default. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe worked this way as well, so this is nothing new or surprising.

Original article: May 15, 2025 (4:44 AM ET): Switch emulation has once again improved, but this time it’s thanks to the hard work of Nintendo’s own developers. Update 3.0.4 for Mario Kart 8 ...