Mario Kart Message Board

If Sony had a Playstation All-Stars racer, similar to Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing and Mario Kart, it'd probably look like this. The creators, Max and Leonardo, pretty much included everyone, as you can see in the full pic below. This would be Wacky Races level of chaotic racing.Read more...

"Witness the incremental evolution of franchise-based go-kart combat racing!" Yup, that's Mario Kart in a nutshell.Read more...

You think you're too cool for South By Southwest, the annual tech and music conference that takes over Austin, Texas for two weeks? Then I have four words for you: Real Life Mario Kart. Nothing could possibly be better than that.Read more...

After two weeks of hearing about sports you've never cared to follow in the past four years, you've probably wondered why the short track skaters don't just ... you know ... throw a blue shell at the end? And here we can see what would happen if they did.Read more...

This isn't an action figure, or some random capsule collectible. This baby is a "full size" 6V ride-on Mario Kart, and is ready for you to try and cram your butt into.Read more...

By now we should all be on board with the idea that texting while driving is a particularly dangerous and irresponsible thing. But how does it affect one's driving within Mario Kart? A physician and some elementary schoolers found it significantly increases the risk of driving backwards, among other hazards.Read more...

Recent Nintendo events got us looking back at some old news clippings about the house of Mario and we found some we just have to share. Here's one of the more interesting ones from the Daily Yomiuri, from November 1992. As you'll see, we can't vouch for veracity of all of it....Read more...

...It'd probably look like this fan art, drawn by talented Kotaku reader Max and his brother Leonardo. Lots of old PlayStation characters to spot in there.Read more...

So, Aaron Paul's big post-Breaking Bad victory lap is a nice payday and a starring role in a popcorn flick. But what if, instead of a gritty, growly movie adaptation for Need for Speed, Mario Kart got the treatment instead?Read more...

Yes, being mean or trolling someone isn't exactly recommendable or even particularly empathetic, but that doesn't mean both are completely off the table all the time. Not if you're playing a game, anyway.Read more...

Ten year-old Gryffin Sanders and his four year-old brother were riding with their great-grandmother when she suddenly passed out. "I tried to wake her up at first," Gryffin said. The car was going 60 miles an hour and heading towards oncoming traffic. Read more...

For around a decade now, while it's been a smash hit on consoles, Mario Kart has also been an arcade racer, thanks to a partnership between Nintendo and Namco Bandai. The latest version of the game, Mario Kart Arcade GP DX is out this week in Japan, and this clip shows what it looks like in action.Read more...

To be a kid in 2013, man. Look at this eletric vehicle Razor has made, it's called "Crazy Cart." I don't think it's meant for me, but damn, I want one of these. They're like mini go-karts.Read more...

Sebastian Vettel is the defending Formula 1 world champ. You could argue that makes him the best race driver in the world. But as we all know, skill alone means squat in a game of Mario Kart. Vettel took part in the German edition of the Red Bull Soapbox Race over the weekend, dressed as Mario and in a red cart that looked as close to Mario's racer as it could without klaxons sounding inside Nintendo's legal department. Sadly, his fake moustache didn't survive the trip down the hill, but both car and driver reached the finish line safely. Guess there weren't enough banana peels on the track. Next year, German crowds, try harder. Seifenkisten-Vettel: "Ich habe es lieber mit Motor" [Merkur, thanks Frank!]

The Walking Dead's 400 Days DLC is getting released this week, and this is absolutely not a screenshot from it. It's Mario Kart and The Walking Dead mixed up in Garry's Mod. Can we call it... The Karting Dead? Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you've got them.

Reader Toad has got hold of a ton of old VHS promos for Nintendo games, played in game stores in Japan in the early 1990s. These aren't short TV spots or trailers. They're long, detailed looks at each game, some running for over 5 minutes and including custom animation and live-action sequences. Some of the games featured include Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Paint and Mario Kart. The best one is probably Kirby's Dream Course. So many old white dudes, so little acting. ToadT Reborn [YouTube]

Ah yes, Akihabara. When you think of Tokyo's "Electric Town", you probably think of retro game shops, arcades, and a sea of anime, manga, and collectible figurines. Add go-karts to that list. Dubbed "Akiba Cart", this service allows you to rent go-karts and drive them in the nerd paradise that is Tokyo's Akihabara. Each kart comes outfitted with things like side view mirrors, a horn, and a little flag—so you don't get smushed by a dump truck. The street legal go-karts can reach speeds of 50 km/h and have special light blue license plates reserved for microcars. Anyone with a valid Japanese or international license can drive the Akiba Cart go-karts. Wearing helmets is not necessary, and apparently, some customers even enjoy cosplaying while they enjoy karting. (They better cosplay as Mario Kart characters!) With a full tank of gas, you can drive the go-kart for about 80 kilometers before running out—and don't necessarily have to stick to Akihabara, making this a new and interesting way to explore Tokyo. Akiba Cart has go-karts available for rent at 2,500 yen (US$25) an hour. If you become an Akiba Cart member, you can rent karts for slightly less at 2,000 yen ($20) an hour. Akiba Cart [Official Site] アキバカート [pipipicpsf@YouTube via サイボーグネネ] (Photos: サイボーグネネ NSFW) Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.

#mariokart Jimmy Fallon's been about as high-profile a video game enthusiast as you can get these last few years. His late night talk show has offered up early looks at big releases like Halo 4 and the Wii U, along with offering exposure to developers and execs. But this new singalong with Disney starlet Selena Gomez is something altogether different. There's no hardware release to hype or gameplay to show. It's a just a song—which is, yeah, a little corny—that echoes an experience that a generation of people have shared in one form or another. More »

#arcade Later this year, Nintendo and Bandai-Namco will release a new Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Arcade GP GX, in arcades across Japan. Today at the JAEPO arcade game expo, Kotaku East was able to get some hands-on time with the game. More »

#wiiu Surprising nobody, Nintendo today promised that new 3D Mario and Mario Kart games are coming to Wii U. More »

#mariokart Science/tech nerds Waterloo Labs, who are no strangers to Mario projects, have truly outdone themselves this time with the creation of a real-life game of Mario Kart. More »

#pokemon Children (and adults) rejoice! Tomy's Tomica toy cars are getting a handful of iconic wheels, such as the Batmobile, Optimus Prime, and Mario's kart. More »

#mariokart For his school's annual billy cart derby, 12 year-old Australian William Wong did the awesome thing and dressed as Mario, even building his cart to be a replica, of sorts, of the plumber's more recent vehicles in the Mario Kart series. More »

#watchthis It started out innocently enough, but these two "concerned" friends worried about their video gamer buddy's tendency towards violence takes a turn for the worst. More »

#watchthis In the midst of the beautiful, open roads of Colorado found in this year's Forza game is a hidden surprise: Mario Kart's Rainbow Road. More »

#mariokart Commuting on public transit can be a drag. Sure, it's better for the environment but it's not that fun being squished up against smelly strangers, to say nothing of the super-germs that are breeding all around you. But you know what is fun? Mario Kart. Why not mash one of the world's most-traveled mass transit systems with Nintendo's beloved wacky racer, then? More »

#watchthis Nobody at Sony is recommending that you recreate iconic tracks from Nintendo's Mario Kart in the upcoming PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet Karting. But what do you think is going to happen when you let gamers into a beta of a kart-racing game that has a very malleable track editor? More »

#mariokart These Mario Kart racers were apparently spotted in Japan, all dressed up and stuck in traffic. More »

#clothing Video game clothing emporium Meat Bun returns just in time for my Australian winter with a range of shirts based on that most timeless and unchanging of genres: racing games. More »

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