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Mario Kart 9 in Active Development with a Potential Reveal this Year?
Mario Kart 9 is coming! – In fact, the only thing that will stop it from happening is if a meteor smashes into planet Earth. And even then I still wouldn’t be entirely convinced that it had been canceled. – Given the fact that it is now one of Nintendo’s…
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Mario Kart Themed Tour Service Gets Hit With $458,000 Fine
I’m not saying that it’s guaranteed, but at some point over the last year or two, it probably came to your attention that there was a tour company in Japan who were offering customers the opportunity to cruise around Toyko in go-karts wearing Mario Kart style costumes. Known as Maricar…
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Playing Mario Kart (Apparently) Leads to Good Relationships
I think practically everyone would agree that the Mario Kart franchise is great fun and, unlike many other competitive games, generally doesn’t tend to result in arguments. Except if you get that blue shell of doom 100 yards from the finishing line. It seems, however, that if you play this…
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Nintendo Legal Case Against Mario Kart Tour Service is Upheld
Mario Kart Tour If you cast your mind back a little under a year ago, you may recall hearing of a tour service in Japan which offered to give you a Mario Kart-like experience of the city. As part of a tourism service, you could drive around Toyko (in costume)…
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Nintendo Successfully Sues Japanese ‘Mario Kart’ Themed Tour
Nintendo Successfully Sues Japanese ‘Mario Kart’ Themed Tour Japan is a pretty amazing country. As a tourist, their major cities are well geared towards showing you the sights and attractions. It seems, however, that one such firm might have taken it a little too far. So far, in fact, that…
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Sega Reveal New Team Sonic Racing Gameplay Video
Team Sonic Racing Gameplay Video Aside from Mario Kart, there is very little currently available in terms of arcade-style racing games. Sonic Racing was a fun alternative back in the day. It wasn’t as good as Mario Kart, but it was a game that had a lot of merits. With…
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Mario Kart Gets Recreated In Fortnite With Shopping Trolleys!
Mario Kart Recreated In Fortnite With Fortnite’s rather extensive building mode and the fresh addition of shopping trolleys, it was only a matter of time before someone created something a bit insane. The Playground Mode, however, has opened a lot of doors for people to get creative and you should prepare…
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Dad Trolls His Daughter For Cheating At Mario Kart
Dad Trolls His Daughter For Cheating At Mario Kart No one likes a cheater and in Mario Kart, there are various forms of cheating. You, of course, have the classic screen peaking tactic or the ‘whoops’ with your opponent’s controller one person’s daughter, however, clearly thought she’d invented Mario Kart cheating.…
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Mario Day Sees Mario Kart Added To Google Maps
Mario Kart Comes To Google Maps Today, if you were not aware, is Mario day. You’re probably not aware of that and as such, I’ll give you a second to see if you can figure out why. Not got it yet? Well, It’s March 10th, or, in other words, Mar10.…
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Nintendo Announce Mobile Mario Kart Is On The Way
Mario Kart is Racing to Mobile Phones Since the Super Nintendo, Mario Kart has been a franchise which has on almost every release been a major success. Most recently Mario Kart 8 has blown us away on the Wii-U and Nintendo Switch. Nintendo, however, has announced that a mobile port…
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Mario Kart Successfully Played by a Neural Network
Mariflow Neural Network Plays Mario Kart As a kid, Mario Kart was one of my favourite games. I literally must have spent hundreds of hours playing it. As such, I got to be rather good at it. It was a simpler time, without the perils of the blue shells of…
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Tesla Autopilot Now Lets You Drive on Rainbow Road
Yesterday, Tesla CEO tweeted some unusual instructions for owners of Tesla vehicles that are equipped with the autopilot feature. While this may be an effort to distract users from the recent issues found in a number of their Model X vehicles, the result of Musk’s instructions is certainly amusing. Normally,…
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Mario Kart in Unreal Engine 4 Looks Incredible!
CryZENx has plenty of Unreal Engine 4 projects under his belt, including a tech demo that runs in DirectX 12. His newest project is focused on one of the most iconic Nintendo games, namely Mario Kart, which has been recreated in Unreal Engine 4. The result is pretty spectacular, and even though…
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Tooltime Meets Mario Cart: Jet Powerted Go-Kart Can Do 60MPH
Most boys have dreamed of a jet-powered go-kart at some point, I know I have. But where most of just dream, others have to make it a reality. YouTuber, plumber, and ex-BMX rider, Colin Furze has done just that and created something that reminds of a crossover between Tooltime (Home…
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RC Mario Kart Has Wheels That Convert To Hover Mode
A new radio controlled Mario Kart can realign its wheels 90o to covert to “hover mode”, just like the vehicles on Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U. Though the RC racer can’t actually hover, it does a great job at mimicking the phenomenon, skidding along the ground sideways with…
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