Mario Kart Series News

A golden year for racing games in on the horizon, so Shacknews conducts a comparison of all the racers out on the E3 floor.

Nintendo's new Mario Kart for Wii U draws many inspirations from F-Zero. And that's a good thing.

Nintendo has announced the four games playable at its "Experience" project: Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD.

Today at its E3 Nintendo Direct, the company showed off Mario Kart 8. The trailer had a few tracks in action, showing the anti-gravity mechanics as the karts transformed. It also promises online multiplayer and integrated Miiverse features. It's coming in spring of 2014.

You'll never guess what, right. Nintendo is making a new Super Mario game and a new Mario Kart game. Cross my heart! I can't give you any useful details about either, okay, but I swear it's true, Nintendo really is making more games in those long, long, long-running series. ...

Nintendo has put up some of its first-party 3DS titles on the eShop today, as it continues its efforts to offer select parts of the library as digital downloads.

Nintendo has announced it will patch Mario Kart 7 to eliminate three unintended shortcuts in multiplayer modes.

In ye oldene dayes, if a console game was broken, it was stuck that way forever. Or, in the case of the Nintendo 3DS, in ye moderne dayes too. Not for much longer, though, as the handheld is getting support for game patches in a firmware update this week.

The 3DS Ambassador Game Boy Advance games are now live and available for download on the eShop.

Nintendo has announced the full line-up of 3DS Ambassador GBA games. Ten titles will be available to early adopters starting this Friday.

Mario Kart 7 program director Yusuke Shiraiwa talks about the design philosophy behind bringing coins back to the series, and the challenges he faced hitting 60 FPS in a 3D game.

Mario Kart series producer Hideki Konno has revealed that production on Mario Kart 7 stalled when it became necessary for Nintendogs + Cats to be completed for the Nintendo 3DS launch.

We get a look at the 3DS "Join Game" feature through the first game to use it, Mario Kart 7.

Mario Kart 7 isn't changing up the series formula in any drastic ways, and that's intentional. Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says the series is "pretty stable" and doesn't need large evolutionary leaps.

Nintendo's Satoru Iwata explains that some 3DS delays have been intentional, to keep them out of the overcrowded holiday season and give them their best chance for sales.