Another week, another new Mario Kart Tour tour announced! The next tour after the Cat Tour will be the Metropolitan Tour. This tour will have mostly city courses, with a new course called “Berlin Byways.” The tour will be available on June 14, 2022, at 11 p.m. PT. You can check out the tweet and trailer down below in this post.
We have all wished for the world of Mario Kart to become real, right? Be able to touch the karts? Live in the awesome fast-paced, adventure seekers’ paradise? If so, the only way one can ever be that close to being in any fantasy world, gaming or otherwise is via theme parks. Theme parks make the magic of games, movies, and cartoons come to life, with rides and attractions that we can touch, feel, taste and experience. Similarly, Universal studios and their Mario-themed attraction is something that we’ve always kept our eyes and ears open. Our diligence paid off, for the first-ever video of what fans can expect the Mario-themed world to look like has been released. Universal Studios announced in March that the first Super Nintendo World in the United States would debut in 2023 at the Hollywood park. According to the press ;Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge is “one of the world’s biggest, most engaging rides,” and it “flawlessly fuses virtual reality with perception mapping technology and actual set pieces… to debut a ride that’s incomparable anywhere within the theme park industry.” Power-Up Bands will also be available at the park and will be integrated into the Bowser’s Challenge ride. Would you visit the park for this Nintendo-themed ride? Do you think it’s a good idea for games to have attractions at theme parks? We’d love to hear your opinion on this, as usual.
Mods or Modifications have always existed in video games much to the chagrin of all hardware and software producers. Nintendo suffers from mods made to their games as do Playstation and Xbox. However, the age-old debate of whether modding is bad or good has always depended on which side of the fence one has been on: casual game user or official game producer. Official game producers more or less dislike modding, whether it’s because some players use it to cheat in games that require some grinding, which is the way the developer designed it, so modding it to make it easier deems the game useless or because some fans actually prefer free mods as to paid downloadable content made available by the companies, biting into their profits and sales. Whatever the reason is modding is a constant thorn in the side of gaming companies. Mario Kart mods are also available on the giant and unending marvel that is the internet. Whether it’s for cheats to do better in the race, more accessories for your carts, or even funky costumes and characters to add some more uniqueness to the game. They exist and have been here ever since the original game has. Where do you stand on the issue of modding Mario Kart? Do you have a copy of a modded version of the game? Does it make Mario Kart more enjoyable or less? We would love to hear from you.
The official Mario Kart Tour Twitter account has announced the next tour after the Peach vs. Bowser Tour! It looks like the next tour will be the Cat Tour. The tour will begin on May 31st, 2022, at 11 p.m. PT. This tour will include another fan favorite, GCN Baby Park! Once the update is live, we will post footage to our YouTube channel. The tweet is down below in this post.
Mario Kart has been one of Nintendo’s most famous, most popular, most lucrative and arguably, most loved software. The characters are timeless, the concept is unique and the fan following is always asking for more. However, Nintendo has been actively supporting the last version of the game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with confirmed track updates in the form of DLC for the next year so does it even make sense for it to be developing a new game on the down-low? Well, it kinda does. Nintendo always keeps details of game sequences and major game updates a little hush hush, letting the rumor mill spurn out whatever insane gossip it can and hardly ever do they directly address an issue, unless its really important. Mods, hackers and other people go around poking in the firms software and hardware to prove their inane theories that flood the internet. This has been happening for software (BOTW 2?) and hardware (Switch 2? Switch Pro?) so Mario Kart 9 rumors also surface every now and then. Our question is what’ll be different in Mario Kart 9? Personally, we’d want some awesome new (not revamped, revised or remade tracks) some new characters, awesome new and improved power-ups (the old ones are getting dated), and just an overall newish look and feel to the game. What do you think could be new about such a game, if Nintendo is developing one? Do you think it’ll accompany the new hardware? Like Breath of The Wild did for the Switch? Let us know your thoughts on this, we’d love to hear your comments!
I’ve got a bit of sad news to share today: the Swift Voyage and Rapid Illusions tournaments have both been postponed. The new dates will be July 2, 2022, for the Swift Voyage tournament, and July 9, 2022, for the Rapid Illusions tournament. Something has happened recently, and we will not be able to organize the tournaments this weekend or next weekend. Another thing is that a complete overhaul of some of our content is coming soon (along with the time trial guides! ), so keep your eyes open for that. We will not postpone the tournaments again unless we absolutely have to do so!
Nintendo has always liked to market its products a bit differently than all other video game consoles, their directs and showcases have hence garnered millions of views from around the world. However, an element of marketing that they have often relied on for software and hardware sales has often been to employ globally renowned actors to help make Nintendo feel like a household name. Actors and celebrities like Robin and Zelda Williams, Awkwafina, Brie Larsson, Beyonce and many many other stars have been called on to make Nintendo seem more consumer-friendly, but has that always worked out for them? The most recent one came before the launch of the Nintendo Switch Sports starring Tennis star Lleyton Hewitt and his son Cruz. Many gamers find such ads to be ‘cringe-worthy’ if the YouTube comments under the ads are anything to go by. Plus, Wired once wrote an article about how such a celebrity ad in 2012 offended gamers as well. My thought is: would marketing Mario Kart in this way be beneficial to the platform? Would it likely see more success or less, via this approach? Would you like to see a celebrity endorse or promote Mario Kart 9 for example? Or would it put you off as an avid Mario Kart fan? Which celebrity would you pick to be in such a Mario Kart advert? Would love to hear your thoughts on this debate
The Doctor Tour will be wrapping up soon, and right behind it will be the Peach vs. Bowser Tour! Earlier today, Nintendo shared some details about the team members who will be on each team, and they’re posted down below. The Doctor Tour will end on May 17th, 2022, at 11:00 PM PST. This next tour is looking to be very entertaining
With so many items up for grabs in all Mario Kart games ever invented, it’s not surprising that most newbies don’t exactly know the point of the all-important Mario collectible: The coin. To be honest, Mario wouldn’t be Mario without coins, right? So, it’s great that the old fan favorite found its way to all or most Mario games that Nintendo released, from Super Mario to Mario Kart, the swirling, revolving gold disk is almost iconic in nature and simply a huge part of the overall Mario franchise. But what does it do in Mario Kart? Numerous things. Coins can give you a small speed boost, they can help guide you through some difficult tracks, they can help unlock many locked items and you can even compete to get the most coins with your friends in battle mode. Apart from all this, they just look cool and help add an overall charm to the game, motivating the player to get as many as they can. So, instead of thinking they’re useless, especially as a newbie, start collecting as many coins as you can in each track and see how it improves your gameplay. You’ll be surprised how much more focused you’ll be if you keep your eye out for them, actively. Happy playing!
There’s something special for Nintendo in Mario Kart Tour because they always seem to be keeping fans on their toes by updating event after event. This ensures that players always have something or the other to look forward to, which is great since fans like us can hardly ever get tired of more Mario Kart content, especially those that give us a chance to beat our friends and boast our wins. If you are new to Mario Kart Tour and have only tried your hand at the other games, then here’s what Mario Kart Tour has to offer: Basically, Grand Stars are collected by players as they go through a tour by earning points in the cups. Tour presents and free pipe launches which ;reward the player with numerous things are scattered amongst the cups. During a tour, any player can complete two challenges and obstacles ;(+3 ;if the player has a Gold Pass) to receive extra Grand Stars, albeit the second set is not available until the second week. The majority of tours add new stuff to the game, such as new drivers, karts, gliders, and courses. Tours are updated fairly regularly so if you want to get into the game, just join in and wait for the latest tour, which happens to be the ‘Doctor Tour’, which contains the Coconut Mall track from Nintendo Wii, ;as well as fan-favorite characters like ;Doctor Mario, Doctor Luigi, and others. Have you played Mario Kart Tours? Let us know which one has been your favorite one to date!
