Mario Kart World (Switch 2) News Articles
Tuesday8th Jul 2025
News A New Nintendo Magazine Is Seeking Your Support On Kickstarter Right Now
Say hello to 'Ninsight'
Ninty Media, the team behind magazines such as The Vita Lounge, Switch Player, and Ninty Fresh, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new venture called 'Ninsight'. With the first issue shipping globally in August, Ninsight aims to provide the latest Nintendo-themed news, reviews, and talking points in a premium, 80-100...
News Rainbow Road Master Is Back In Mario Kart World, And He's Already Setting Records
A technicolour dream
Mario Kart World has only been out for a month, but as you'd expect, speedrunners are already aiming to destroy race track times in the game's Time Trial mode, and a familiar face is already dominating the competition on one particular track (thanks Polygon!). Twitch streamer and Geometry Dash expert Technical is the current...
UK Charts Mario Kart World Returns To Pole Position
After Death Stranding 2 delivered solid results
This week's UK physical game charts are in, and it's back to business as usual for Mario Kart World. After being overtaken by the critically-acclaimed Death Stranding 2, the Switch 2 launch title has stormed back to number one, with EA Sports FC 25 snatching up second spot, leaving Sam Porter Bridges...
Saturday5th Jul 2025
Poll How Many Hours Have You Spent In Mario Kart World So Far?
Go on, tell us
We've now been glued to our Switch 2 for a whole month, and it's got us wondering how much mileage our community has gotten out of the new game Mario Kart World. While it might not be the launch title everyone was hoping for, it's still packed with plenty of things to do. This includes a new Knockout Tour mode, a whole world to free...
Thursday3rd Jul 2025
Japanese Charts Tamagotchi Plaza Serves Up A Staggering Debut
But there's no shaking pole position
We are back with an updated look at the Japanese physical charts, courtesy of Famitsu, and while pole position has remained ever-steady, a couple of newbies have shaken up the rest of the proceedings. Surprising nobody, Mario Kart World is still in first place after having put up an additional 145,069 sales in...
Wednesday2nd Jul 2025
News My Nintendo Store Adds A New Mario Kart World Reward (North America)
Take a trip around the world
Mario Kart World has been out for almost a month and Nintendo is now offering a new reward for it in North America. If you've got a spare 500 Platinum Points, you can now redeem the Mario Kart World Postcard Set from the My Nintendo Store. This collection of postcards will feature many of the famous locations from the...
Tuesday1st Jul 2025
News Xenoblade Chronicles Dev Achieved 19% Profit Increase Last Financial Year
But it's far from its best
Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft has recently reported an impressive 19% profit increase for the financial year ending March 2025. As covered by Game Biz (thanks, Nintendo Everything), the company recorded profits of 487 million yen during the last financial year, which is up from 409 million yen the year...
Monday30th Jun 2025
News Of Course Mario Kart World Is Being Review Bombed
Its Metacritic user score drops to 7.5
Following Nintendo's most recent update for Mario Kart World, it seems a small minority of fans are expressing their disappointment in the only way they know how: by review bombing the game on Metacritic. As reported by The Gamer, Mario Kart World's user review average has dropped from around 8.3 to 7.5 in...
UK Charts Hideo Kojima's Latest Project Leaves Mario Kart World Stranded In 2nd
A total voidout
The latest UK Charts are here, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 2: On The Beach has comfortably landed at number one following its debut, pushing Mario Kart World down to second place for the first time. Interestingly, however, it seems physical sales for DS2 are down 66% when compared to the first game,...
Thursday26th Jun 2025
Japanese Charts Mario Kart World Speeds Past 1 Million Physical Sales
No slowing down
Another week of Switch 2 sales has come and gone, and Famitsu is here to give us the rundown on the physical figures from Japan. Unsurprisingly, Mario Kart World is still in pole position, shifting an additional 122,578 units in its third week, and pushing its total sales past the one million mark. Elsewhere, RAIDOU Remastered...
News Fans Reckon Nintendo Has "Killed" Mario Kart World With Its Latest Update
Ready for an intermission?
Nintendo's latest update for Mario Kart World is now live, and the main change it's brought comes via the following patch note: "Adjusted courses selected in “Random” when selecting next course in a wireless “VS Race.” Okay, so what does this mean? Well, prior to the update, selecting a standard race when...
News Mario Kart World Has Been Updated To Version 1.1.2, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Update on the Switch 2 today
Nintendo has been rolling out game updates every week since the Switch 2 arrived earlier this month, and we've now got a new patch for Mario Kart World. This follows a small patch last week and bumps the game up to Version 1.1.2. It comes with some general adjustments and also resolves some more issues you may or may...
Tuesday24th Jun 2025
"No one to blame but myself"
Professional Smash Bros. player Joseph 'Mang0' Marquez has today been dropped by his main sponsor 'Cloud9' due to "inappropriate conduct" at a recent Mario Kart World "Beerio Kart" tournament hosted by streamer and internet personality Ludwig Aghren. This 11-year sponsorship marks the end of "one of the longest...
Poll Have You Won Knockout Tour Online In Mario Kart World Yet?
Go on, tell us
Apart from the new free roam mode in Mario Kart World, Nintendo's latest kart racing outing also brings a new racing mode known as 'Knockout Tour'. In case you're not familiar with it, it's basically Mario Kart's take on the battle royale genre, where it's the last kart standing as racers are eliminated after each section of the...
Monday23rd Jun 2025
Random Mario Kart World Player 'Breaks' The Game, Takes Flight Over Mario Circuit
"This game is broken"
Whilst most of us gamers will make do with cheering loudly to ourselves when we (accidentally) come first in an online race in Mario Kart World, or maybe have an extra spoon of delicious Gamer Gruel™ as a reward for getting gold in Mirror Mode, some others prefer to...well, they prefer to break things then call 'em broken. A...
UK Charts There's No Stopping Mario Kart World And Switch 2
Still not ready to Switch 2 something else
We are back with the latest look at the UK physical charts, and, what do you know, Mario Kart World has found itself in pole position for the third week running. The Switch 2 biggie may be leading the pack once again, but its supporting cast still follows closely behind it, with Cyberpunk 2077, Tears of...
News Where Are Mario Kart World's Non-Mario Racers? Producer Kosuke Yabuki Has The Answer
Missing Link
There's no denying that Mario Kart World packs a pretty impressive roster of racers (come on, 50 characters, plus costumes ain't bad), but we'd be foolish if we didn't pour one out for the familiar faces that were lost along the way. We're talking, of course, about the Koopalings wider Nintendo characters that got cosy in Mario Kart 8...
Friday20th Jun 2025
Video Right, We Need To Talk About GameChat On Switch 2
Can you hear me now?
GameChat had proven to be, well, not massively popular with the Nintendo Life community in the run up to the Switch 2 launch. Many had simply refused to participate in the new feature, while others were keen, yet understandably sceptical about the whole idea. Yet now that it's here, it's safe to say that we, and indeed many of...
Thursday19th Jun 2025
Japanese Charts Switch 2 Won't Slow Down, Surpasses 1 Million Consoles Sold
And it's only week 2
The Switch 2 is still going strong over in Japan, and thanks to Famitsu, we have the lowdown on the week's physical and console sales. Unsurprisingly, for the second week in a row, Mario Kart World takes pole position by shifting another 134,900 copies in the week of 9th to 16th June. That's over 120k more than the next closest...
News Third-Party Launch Games On Switch 2 Reportedly Sold "Very Low Numbers"
All about that Mario Kart
A new report from Chris Dring's The Game Business highlights a few sales stats for launch games on the recently-released Switch 2. According to the article, "most third-party Switch 2 games posted very low numbers" at launch, with the vast majority of players understandably gravitating towards Mario Kart World. As pe
Wednesday18th Jun 2025
News Mario Kart World Has Been Updated To Version 1.1.1, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
The patch for this Switch 2 exclusive is now live
We're now well into the first month of the Switch 2 and Nintendo has today released a new software update for the system-exclusive Mario Kart World. This bumps the game up to Version 1.1.1 and includes multiple fixes tied to "issues" with items, game crashes, online play problems, and more. Here's...
News Nintendo Reminds Mario Kart Players They Can Toggle Auto And Smart Controls
"I'm using tilt controls"
Nintendo's new game Mario Kart World includes all sorts of toggles making it accessible to everyone. However, it seems this has also led to some confusion – with some players questioning why their karts are moving on their own during races. It's actually resulted in Nintendo's Japanese customer support account on social...
Tuesday17th Jun 2025
News Mario's Voice Actor Says It's "Unbelievable" To Hear His Voice In Mario Kart World
"Mario Kart was an absolute pillar of my childhood"
In case you somehow missed it, Mario got a new voice actor alongside the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder in 2023 and he's a huge fan of the character. Kevin Afghani has now returned to the iconic role once again in the new Switch 2 exclusive Mario Kart World, and he's taken to social media to...
Monday16th Jun 2025
UK Charts Yes, Two Mario Kart Games Are In The Top Ten
Double whammy
The latest UK Charts are in and, as expected, Mario Kart World has retained its lofty spot at number 1 following the Switch 2's incredibly successful launch. But what ho, what luck, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is also in the top ten at number 6! Nintendo must be proper chuffed at that. Elsewhere, other Switch 2 games like Cyberpunk 2077:...
Sunday15th Jun 2025
News Totaka's Song Appears To Have Been Found In Mario Kart World
The famous Nintendo tune returns
Nintendo mentioned how there were all sorts of surprises to discover in Mario Kart World and a week after the game's launch it looks like Totaka's Song has been discovered. As highlighted on social media and elsewhere online (via Nintendo Everything), you can hear Yoshi humming this Nintendo tune in the game's...
News Switch 2's Best-Selling eShop Games So Far
The first week comes to a close
It's now been more than a week since the arrival of the Switch 2, so we've taken another quick look at the US eShop "best sellers" chart to see what users are buying as of 14th July 2025. Mario Kart World once again takes out the top spot and Cyberpunk 2077 has moved up the ladder to second place, with the Zelda:...
Saturday14th Jun 2025
News Switch 2 Sets "All-Time" Launch Record For Video Game Hardware In The US
Beating the PS4's record with the help of Mario Kart
Following Nintendo's news about the Switch 2 becoming the "fastest-selling Nintendo hardware" ever in the US, we've now got some numbers to go with it, courtesy of Circana’s analyst Mat Piscatella. According to Piscatella, this is an "all-time launch week unit sales record for video game...
Friday13th Jun 2025
News Switch 2 Demo Kiosks Are Being Spotted In US Stores
For the dreamers!
It's been absolutely flipping ages since this particular writer has had a go at a good old-fashioned demo kiosk for a Nintendo console (although many, many hours were spent on a SNES one in my local Woolworths back in the day), and so it's very exciting to see them out in the wild and being deployed for Switch 2. Nostalgia: it gets...
Video We Put The Switch 2's Battery Through Its Paces With A Full Timelapse
How does it hold up?
Given the improved specs in the recently released Switch 2, it's not entirely surprising that the system's battery can't quite keep up with its predecessor's (though with the increased size, one has to imagine that Nintendo could stuff a bigger one in there). But just how good / bad is it? Well, our lovely video producer Alex...
News Mario Kart World's Rewind Feature Is Being Used To Set Crazy Time Trial Lap Records
13-second sprint round Koopa Troopa Beach, anyone?
Leave it to Nintendo to put a mechanic into a game that can be used in lots of 'unintended' ways. Then leave it to the typical Nintendo fan to figure out how to mess with it almost immediately. Yes, just as we are routinely amazed by what players come up with in the likes of Tears of the Kingdom,...
