GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nintendo has revealed why it decided to name the latest game in the Mario Kart series Mario Kart World rather than Mario Kart 9. This was revealed in ...

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Nintendo may have just leaked their big changes coming to Mario Kart World later this year, and online Battle Mode fans couldn't be more excited.

The series has had its ups and downs. Following the quantum leap in fidelity from 1992’s Super Mario Kart to the N64 version, and again to the GameCube’s Double Dash (2003), the series spun its wheels ...

New leaks reveal some of Nintendo's potential plans for Mario Kart World, and one popular mode could be making its way to the Switch 2 kart racer.

Nintendo initially had an exceptionally ambitious vision for Mario Kart World, serving as a follow-up to the best-selling entries on both the Switch and Wii U platforms. Consequently, two ...

When Yabuki elaborated on the team’s vision, he noted that earlier Mario Kart titles followed a linear structure, with players progressing from one isolated course to the next. However, with modern ...

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A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. The Mario Kart series is a beloved Nintendo franchise that first began on ...

To celebrate Mario Day 2026, LEGO has announced a new LEGO Mario Kart set featuring Luigi and the Mach 8 race car, coming April 1.

Mario Kart World started development back in 2017 as a game for the original Switch, but ended up becoming a Switch 2 one because it devs felt the tech boost was necessary to deliver the world bit of ...

The big hook of Mario Kart World is that, for the first time in the series, players aren’t just visiting separate and disconnected courses. Everything links together to form one big world, and there’s ...