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Though customizable racetrack enthusiasts living in Europe and Australia have had their lucky, lucky hands on Firebrand Games' TrackMania Wii and its DS counterpart, TrackMania Turbo, for months now, North Americans have had to go without. Don't they know that we love ridiculous, physics-defying vehicular labrynths as much as (if not more than) our overseas cohorts? Fortunately, publisher City Interactive feels our pain: According to the company's latest financial statements, the two titles are coming stateside this spring.

The new publisher also comes with a new name: Both versions of the game are now titled TrackMania: Build to Race, and will retail for $29.99. Keep an eye out for the Wii version March 22 and the DS version April 12. Unless, of course, you don't like possessing the godlike ability to craft racetracks from the luminiferous aether.

A portion of a Eurogamer review… Its cars are fairly bland in look but gloriously quirky in feel, while the wackiest track designs you’ll encounter in any racer are couched in sterile environments. In short, it takes having fun extremely seriously. As long as you’ve got the patience to handle it, you’ll find that’s no bad [...]

Discover in this video all the multiplayer possibilities of this incredible racing game: play up to 4 in splitscreen mode, or up to 6 online! Challenge players from all around the world to climb up the official rankings, and download new spectacular tracks to keep on racing! About TrackMania on Wii: Using your Wiimote and [...]

- Time trial races - Platform challenges: Finish a jump, don’t total your vehicle - Puzzle modes: Need to find the right track pieces to finish - Multiplayer options - Send tracks via Wi-Fi - Stadium, island, desert, snow, rally, coast themes - Environments will change the handling of your vehicle - Ghost data for first/second/third while you race - one-button press to [...]

The PC phenom hits this summer and we've been zooming through a few of these maniacal tracks.

If you haven't played a TrackMania game before, let us encapsulate the experience for you: you build the craziest, most impractical, most car-destroying track you can imagine, and then you race it. That's TrackMania's whole deal. Now, developer Firebrand Games is bringing that experience to the Wii with TrackMania Wii, allowing you to assemble your ridiculous courses with the Wiimote's pointer interface. It'll make it really simple to design something on which driving is impossible! The trailer above introduces the track editor interface.

Trackmania Wii is officially set for a September release in Europe. While nothing has been announced for North America, Amazon currently has a May 26 release listed, via publisher Dreamcatcher.

The incredible Track Editor, distinctive brand of TrackMania, allows you to create your own tracks very easily and intuitively with the Wiimote. Thanks to more than 1000 spectacular building blocks, let your creativity run free and build the craziest tracks! Then share your best creations with your friends and challenge them in real time, thanks [...]

The most fun-filled racing game lands on Wii.

TrackMania gets an upgrade with Wii controls.

Direct link here Trackmania, the most fun-filled racing game played by millions of PC players worldwide, reveals today a little bit more of its first home console edition with a first exclusive video! This minute long video explodes with images and perfectly captures the spirit of this legendary car game, faithfully transcribed on Nintendo’s console: fun, spectacular [...]

We've still got quite a wait ahead of us before TrackMania 2 arrives, but we can at very least sate our desire for more from the series in these first screens of TrackMania Wii. The game is said to feature the usual superabundance of tracks, and even an online mode for those of you looking to take the madness worldwide. TMW's first six screens (minus the logo you see above, of course) show off the variety of environments through which we'll be speeding when the game arrives on Wii in the "second quarter of 2010." We're quite fond of this one right here, but we're still holding out for the totally necessary "inside of a volcano" level. We can dream, no?

The PC classic's coming to the Nintendo console.