Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

Nintendo is airing a new commercial over in France to promote Mario Kart 8’s new 200cc mode and DLC. You can take a look at it below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 3 Comments

Digital Foundry has cooked up another technical video that examines the frame rate of Mario Kart 8. All of the game’s new tracks have been tested, and it should come as no surprise that the DLC seems to maintain a stable 59-60 FPS. Check out the video below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 1 Comment

A new update has been released for Mario Kart 8. Version 4.1 is available for download right now.

Today’s Mario Kart 8 update has two purposes. 200cc and Mirror Mode are now immediately unlocked in Grand Prix, and Nintendo has made general improvements.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in Features, Game of the Month, GameCube, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 10 Comments

It’s safe to say that Mario Kart 8 takes more than a few cues from F-Zero. Nintendo’s other racing franchise that started out on the SNES gets comparatively little love nowadays, but several features from this series have worked their way into the latest Mario Kart. The new racetracks are the most obvious influence, with gravity-defying courses that are straight out of F-Zero (quite literally in the case of some of the DLC), but the new 200cc class brings Mario Kart’s speed just a little bit closer to its older brother. Heck, you can even play as a Mii approximation of Captain Falcon if you can track down his elusive amiibo. But for all the inspiration that Mario Kart 8 takes from F-Zero, the two series remain distinctly different. Some people are claiming that Mario Kart is now an adequate replacement for the currently MIA F-Zero (and by some people I mean just one guy on Neogaf), but taking a look at the design philosophy behind both titles shows that they’re completely at odds with each other.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 6 Comments

Prior to the most recent Mario Kart 8 update, players could successfully exploit a technique known as “fire hopping”. If you haven’t heard about it before, this quick and helpful summary from Kotaku should help fill you in:

Fire hopping was first discovered shortly after Mario Kart 8 came out last summer as a way to artificially extend a racer’s speed boosts. By flipping the joystick on the Wii U controller back and forth in a rapid, repetitive motion at just the right moment when coming off a boost, players could maintain their enhanced speed indefinitely.

Fire hopping has since been addressed with Mario Kart 8’s new update. Well, in 200cc mode that is. While some claim that it’s still possible to pull off in this higher racing class, there’s no denying that it’s changed and has been “nerfed”, so to speak. It just can’t be done the way it has been in other modes, and the technique has definitely been impacted.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in Features, Game of the Month, Wii U | 8 Comments

For all of the fresh and welcome adjustments Mario Kart 8 brought to the series, there was one mode that saw a massive set of changes much to the dismay of many: Battle Mode. Doing away with the iconic arena stages prevalent in previous entries, Mario Kart 8 opted instead to re-use existing tracks to create somewhat of a joust around the courses, an unwelcome change to many fans. Combine that with the initial lack of a mini-map, the implication for couch co-op with a twelve-player cap and the fact that the tracks were larger and more open than ever, many fans felt that Nintendo had missed the mark when it came to capturing what the Grand Prix’s little brother was all about. Battle Mode has undergone a number of changes over the eight entries in the franchise. We’ve seen the size of the arena grow from two to twelve, the addition of bikes and countless other tweaks to the original inclusion back in 1992, but is the shift in focus really to blame entirely on Mario Kart 8? What should Battle Mode in a modern day Mario Kart even look like anyway?

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

GameXplain has been closely examining Mario Kart 8’s new DLC pack in hopes of finding some hidden secrets. In the video below, you’ll find five of the neater things uncovered in the latest tracks.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

A new video from Nintendo Life compares Mario Kart 8’s new 200cc speed to the 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc options. Check it out below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

Yesterday, Nintendo UK held a live stream over on Twitch to celebrate the launch of the new DLC and 200cc Mode for Mario Kart 8. If you missed it, you can watch the full recording below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GBA, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

Another Mario Kart 8 comparison has come in – this time for Cheese Land. It’s a track that we haven’t really seen in comparison form unlike some of the other courses, but the improvements are immediately noticeable. Take a look at the video below.

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