Eager to bring Nintendo fans to the 3DS, Nintendo’s upcoming first party line up is packed with familiar franchises.

Mario Kart for Nintendo 3DS has a slot machine style reels where you pick a body, wheels, and glider before a race begins.

Or as Shigeru Miyamoto likes to call it, Mario Kite.

Takara Tomy made an actual Mario Kart toy. The Choro Q Hybrid! Mario Kart Wii Vs. series has cars, a racetrack, and a system where you can use items during the race.

The game that started the Mario Kart series will be available on Japan’s Virtual Console next month. Since Nintendo plans to release Super Mario Kart in Japan it will probably come to North America too.

A neat feature Nintendo just announced for Mario Kart Wii is rotating online tournaments on the Mario Kart Channel every few weeks. Players can match their tournament time against the world, which should add a decent amount of replay value to Mario Kart Wii.   Currently, the tournament has players drive on Mario Circuit, but [...]

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned at all, but Mario Kart Wii takes note of your Grand Prix victory. When you complete all of the cups with at least a third place finish the credits roll and a photo is taken with your Mii in a racing suit next to Mario and Princess [...]

Online play in Mario Kart Wii is smooth. Only a tiny bit of lag effects twelve player races. However, the world ranking system has issues. A glitch allows players to drive a single lap then wait by the finish line while sitting in reverse. Glancing through the rankings, it looks like Nintendo is actively removing [...]

I was thinking what to initially write about Mario Kart Wii because the game is explained in a single sentence: Mario Kart with motion control and Nintendo Wi-Fi play. I’m fairly certain people who read Siliconera are familiar with Mario Kart and Mario Kart Wii doesn’t deviate from the formula. Nintendo even took the time [...]

I picked up Mario Kart Wii and when I unpackaged it I noticed the Wii Wheel has a little sticker explaining you need to remove the plastic wrap sent by Nintendo before inserting the remote. Guitar Hero III’s shell and the zapper require players to remove the wrapper, but I wanted to see if I [...]

Mario Kart Wii supports four kinds of control schemes: tilt control with the remote, nunchuck/remote combination, Classic Controller and the Gamecube controller for purists. Before you dust off a Wavebird, Nintendo’s updated Mario Kart Wii fact sheet explains “some maneuvers cannot be performed.” The Classic Controller has the same warning. Nintendo has yet to disclose [...]

There are only seventeen days between the worldwide debut of Mario Kart Wii in Japan and its corresponding launch in North America. We get Mario Kart Wii on April 27. On the same day Nintendo will also release the Mario Kart Wii Channel, which lets players join tournaments, see when their friends are online, browse [...]

If you need additional Nintendo branded Mario Kart Wii steering wheels you won’t have to buy shell out for another copy of Mario Kart Wii. Nintendo plans on selling extra Wii Wheels on April 11, the same day Mario Kart Wii debuts in Japan. Each extra plastic steering wheel runs for 1200 yen ($11). Of [...]

It’s the announcement everyone saw coming, Mario Kart Wii in 2008, bundled with a steering wheel. Like Mario Kart DS, you will be able to race online in Mario Kart Wii through Nintendo Wi-Fi. On top of races Nintendo is bringing battle mode online, a first for the series. See a video of Reggie introducing [...]