Our Mario Kart World review delves into the Nintendo Switch 2 launch title, finding a racer that nearly lives up to its runaway hype train.

Mario Kart World lives up to its series’ legacy as a fantastic local multiplayer game. Playing Grand Prix and VS Race with three friends on the couch is as fun as Mario Kart multiplayer has always been,

Mario Kart World is indisputably the best first-party launch game for the new Nintendo Switch 2 console, and its new major departures for the franchise – like Knockout Tour and Free Roam – are delightful, but it remains to be seen if the kart racer can keep up the pace for the long haul.

Rolling Stone caught up with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki to discuss the challenges of reinventing the series for a new generation of players, designing its interconnected world, and how balance becomes a key phrase in more ways than one.

But even outside of technical issues, those changes meant a fundamental rethink of many of Mario Kart’s core elements. “We knew when we came up with this idea that it really would be a big change for the series,

When Nintendo shared footage of Mario Kart World during its Switch 2 Direct in April, players immediately spotted the cow as one of the racers and promptly lost their minds. Now, the opportunity has come to play as the grazing, grass-eater, and as Polygon noted, boy is the opportunity being seized.

Aside from the fact that Mario Kart World introduces a big ol' open-world to the series for the first time, it also introduces some key new mechanics. There's legitimate technique

With gamers across the globe now settling in to put their Switch 2 consoles through their paces, we've been seeing a bunch of media outlets, alongside eager social media and Reddit users, report in on how they're finding the battery life thus far.