Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Nintendo showed off the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 5 in the recent Nintendo Direct. And now it has a release date! We have the information below. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 5 will be available on July 12th, 2023 It will feature 8 new tracks to Mario Kart 8 and three new characters! Koopa Cape and Moonview Highway are both from Mario Kart Wii. Los Angeles Laps, Athens Dash, and Vancouver Velocity are…

The second of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC is coming in August. We have a trailer and details below. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass will get its second Wave of DLC on August 4th. The DLC can be purchased separately or its available at no extra cost to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscribers. Wave 2 will include 8 new courses: Sky High Sundae, N64 Kalimari Desert, SNES Mario Circuit 3, Wii Mushroom Gorge, Tour Sydney Sprint,…

Nintendo of America announced today that they will be holding a Mario Kart North American Online tournament starting this month. We have the details below. To take part in the tournament, you’ll need a Nintendo Switch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Nintendo’s online service. Here are additional details from Nintendo’s events website: “Start your engines and race into the new year during the Mario Kart North American Open for a chance to win 2,500 My Nintendo Gold Points! Fire up…

The Nintendo Switch has had its share of ups and downs already in its short life cycle, and the system is adored by some and down right hated by others. Some say there are not enough games, while others cannot get through all the game available now without coming up with a way to create days with more than 24 hours. It seems to me that either you love it, or you hate it, with very few sitting on the fence in between. If you haven't already purchased a Nintendo Switch, and are on the fence about doing so, we provide our top 5 reasons why you need to go out and ...

Earlier this year, when we unboxed and reviewed our Nintendo Switch, we also looked at a pile of accessories from Performance Design Products. One of our favourite items - outside the Elite Player Backpack which is phenomenal! - was the Nintendo Switch carrying case, which at the time was themed in multiple ways: The Legend of Zelda, generic Mario, and a charcoal gray, classy looking case. PDP is adding another theme to their lineup of cases: Mario Kart!

When you’ve completely finished Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, you probably want people to know all about it. Thanks to some Gold customization options, this can definitely be the case, but outside of looking cool, would you actually want to use this 100% gold combination? Check out the video from Abdallah below, as well as our written guide on how to unlock all the gold items! Gold Standard Kart To get the Gold Standard Kart, you need to get every Gold…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a hit! Nintendo has released early sales figures for the game and has said that it is the fastest selling game in the Mario Kart franchise. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out on Friday for the Nintendo Switch. The games has already sold “more than 459,000 combined packaged and digital sales in the U.S. on launch day alone (April 28)” according to Nintendo PR. This makes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the fastest selling game in…

We at GamesReviews.com feel pretty confident in the following statement: very few people realized Mario Kart 8 on Wii U had an acceleration problem, but yet will be relieved to hear it has been fixed in the Deluxe edition on the Nintendo Switch. When Mario Kart 8 came out a few years ago on Wii U, Nintendo YouTube ambassador Abdallah - who is a big friend of the site - posted a video to his YouTube page regarding an issue with the acceleration numbers when selecting karts. You can see his video from a few years ago below.