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1 month, 1 week - Luck will always be a factor in Mario Kart World, and while skill will help to a degree, the real difference maker in mitigating luck's impact on a race is track knowledge. So for those looking for the best ways to cut corners and impress your friends, here are a handful of shortcuts and pro tips for all 30 tracks in Mario Kart World.

1 month, 2 weeks - IGN Host Alyek stopped by the Game With IGN Booth at IGN Live 2025 where fans got their first-ever hands-on with the Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World! They even got to go head-to-head with IGN talent and played on Samsung’s latest OLED TV, making for super smooth, high-res races with minimal lag and a beautiful picture!Presented by Samsung.

1 month, 2 weeks - From its earliest days on the SNES to its new open-world outing on Switch 2, here's every Mario Kart game, ranked worst to best. Since 1992 Mario Kart has been a pillar of Nintendo and a quintessential example of the company’s “easy to pick up, difficult to master” philosophy. The series has now become so popular that it’s arguably eclipsed the Mario platformers as the principal arena from which people know the red-capped Italian plumber. The series began back on the SNES with Super Mario Kart, which introduced a formula that fans fawn over to this day. But while the core of that first game has remained intact over the years, many of the components have been completely reinvented with the series’ latest title on Switch 2, Mario Kart World. With that new game now out in the wild, it's a great time to look back on each game in the series to see how they iterate on the formula, how they reflect the state of Nintendo at the time of their release, and whether or not they hold up to this day. Here’s every Mario Kart game, ranked.Presented by Lenovo Legion. Reach Your Impossible.

1 month, 3 weeks - Not only did Nintendo hide an entire Grand Prix cup in Mario Kart World, they also hid an entirely separate racing mode. Unlike the Special Cup however, unlocking the classic Mirror Mode is considerably more complex, with a list of requirements that has taken the kart-racing community some time to discover. Here’s exactly how to unlock Mirror Mode and what to expect once you’ve got it.

1 month, 3 weeks - Mario Kart World reviewed by Logan Plant on Nintendo Switch 2.The Nintendo Switch 2 is officially off to the races, and Mario Kart World is a great way to get things started. The first brand-new Mario Kart in a decade makes huge changes to the established formula, but ironically, the best parts about it closely follow the blueprint of every entry that’s come before: unbeatable local multiplayer racing on well-designed tracks that more than live up to the series’ legacy. World’s tight controls, celebratory soundtrack, and universal polish marvelously complement the action, and I can’t wait to see how top players will take full advantage of its exciting parkour mechanics in the months and years ahead. The way Nintendo built 30 courses into an interconnected series of highways is undeniably impressive, too, but Mario Kart’s first attempt at an open world is also fairly uneven across its variety of modes. The clear standout among the new ways to play is Knockout Tour, a thrilling battle royale that makes the best use of World’s intertwined roads. But when you add in frustrating online multiplayer limitations and some head-scratching design decisions around the interface and unlockables that will hopefully be fixed in future updates, World feels like it was hit with a blue shell right before the finish line. Still, Mario Kart World’s chassis is so strong that, with a few key tune-ups, I’m confident it will eventually end up popping champagne in victory lane.