Mario Kart 8 first released on Wii U in 2014, so this will be the first wholly new game in the series in more than a decade, outside of a pair of spin-offs. It’s been a long road for Mario’s ...

Nintendo has done it again. While revealing the company’s next console, the Nintendo Switch 2, it looks like the next iteration of Mario Kart has slipped past the starting line. In the reveal ...

Especially when you remember that Mario Kart 8’s first incarnation was released in 2014 for Wii U. The Switch 2 announcement trailer reveals a familiar shot of Mario and his friends blasting ...

The latest Mario Kart game introduced by Nintendo was Mario Kart 8, released in 2014 for the Nintendo Wii U. While the game was great, the Wii U never took off, which made the Japanese company ...

This would be the first new Mario Kart since Mario Kart 8 released on the Wii U in 2014, followed by its Switch Deluxe version in 2017. Below are more screens of the game from the reveal trailer ...

and the gang all drive out through an open desert plain. At first glance, the view is pretty similar to Mario Kart 8, but the more I looked at that course, the less I felt I recognized it.

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. OK, so what can you play on the ...

The next Mario Kart game will seemingly support races for up to 24 players, double the limit from MK8D. The new entry in the long-running series only made a brief appearance during the January 16 ...

It's been over a decade since Mario Kart 8 first launched on the Wii U, with the expanded Switch release in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe going on to be the best-selling Switch game. Whether this is Mario ...

Right now we only know about one game for the newly announced Nintendo Switch 2: the next Mario Kart. Nintendo didn’t reveal a title, but fans are already calling the kart racer Mario Kart 9 and ...

That said, these are the characters we’d love to see cross over into Mario Kart 9. There are numerous ... everyday objects appear huge as racers drive around a backyard with a crashed spaceship ...

It shows what appears to be "Mario Kart 9" on the new console. Screengrab from the first Nintendo Switch 2 trailer released Wednesday, January 16, 2025. It shows what appears to be "Mario Kart 9 ...