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As revealed at this year’s PC Gaming Show, Stampede: Racing Royale is a new kart racer coming to PC early access this year and consoles late on. It’s not just any kart racer though: It’s a 60-player battle royale game. The project is being developed by Sumo Lemmington, a new studio within Sumo Digital. Sumo has quite the racing game pedigree, as its responsible for Outrun (2006) and the Sonic All -Stars Racing series. It even acted as a support studio on 2021’s excellent Forza Horizon 5. Stampede: Racing Royale…

Apple has reportedly bought AR startup Mira. The Los Angeles-based company makes the AR headsets for Super Nintendo World’s Mario Kart ride and has contracts with the US Air Force and Navy. You may also remember the Mira Prism, the company’s smartphone-based AR headset that Engadget tried in 2017. Of course, Apple finally revealed its long-rumored AR headset, the Vision Pro, at its WWDC 2023 keynote on Monday. The Verge reports that the acquisition was verified through posts on the private Instagram account of Mira CEO…

Hard Drivin’ Nintendo could be facing a new class action lawsuit over its usage of loot boxes in mobile racer Mario Kart Tour. The suit, filed by a guardian on behalf of their minor, is looking to force Nintendo to refund all loot box purchases made by minors since the free-to-play title’s release in September 2019. As reported by Class Action.org, the lawsuit essentially alleges the common concerns about the free-to-play/loot box system, that grinds are implemented in order to encourage players to spend real money…

An under-18 gamer, with support from a guardian, is suing Nintendo over the company’s in-game loot boxes that charged players real money for a slim chance at pretend advantage. The class action lawsuit was originally filed last month, but escalated to the federal system through California State Court last Wednesday, according to a report from Axios.What Was Your First Experience with Super Mario Bros? | io9 InterviewThe suit claims that Nintendo engaged in deceptive and illegal practices through the in-game transactions…

These days, video game loot boxes aren't quite as ubiquitous as they once were, but that hasn't stopped one young player from suing Nintendo over their inclusion in the mobile game Mario Kart Tour. The suit claims that the game's loot boxes (known as Spotlight Pipes) are a form of trickery that encourages "addictive behaviors akin to gambling."As reported by Axios, these Spotlight Pipes are loot boxes with undisclosed odds, and players used to be able to spend real money to activate the pipes again and…

Nintendo is facing a new lawsuit over its previous implementation of microtransactions in the mobile game Mario Kart Tour. Mario Kart Tour first launched on iOS and Android in 2019 and used to have a loot box-like system where players could spend real money to activate Spotlight Pipes, which had undisclosed odds of granting players useful items and upgrades. Nintendo removed Spotlight Pipes from Mario Kart Tour in a September 2022 update, but Axios reports that a new class-action lawsuit has been filed against…

It’s time to talk about my good buddy RJ. RJ45, that is. Well, technically, we’re going to talk about how ethernet cables, which tend to use an RJ45 connector, are glue that once bound so many of us together in multiplayer gaming bliss (before then, too, but my part of this story began at the turn of the century). It was a joyous copper pipeline for so many who might have looked askance at the four-player couch multiplayer that was the only context in which most ordinary people could relate to gaming with friends. That’s…

Lego 2K Drive MSRP $70.00 “Lego 2K Drive's chaotic racing and inventive story mode are let down by irresponsible microtransactions.” Pros Fast-paced racing fun Excellent Lego aesthetics Standout story mode Deep kart creation suite Cons Some dud minigames…

As part of Nintendo's newest earnings briefing, the gaming giant released new sales figures for its most popular games, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe reached a massive new milestone. The kart racer has now surpassed 50 million copies sold to date. As of March 31, the game had sold 53.79 million copies globally, according to Nintendo's public sales data.This is up from 48.4 million units as of November 2022, so the game sold another 5.4 million copies in three months. A key point here is that the sales figures…

Father Gascoigne revs up his engines Bloodborne Kart is an in-development project mixing kart racing with the horror of Bloodborne, and today we got a new glimpse of what that combination looks like. A new video spotlights Father Gascoigne and his dangerous wheels in a karting boss fight. LWMedia, a.k.a. Lilith Walther, has been working on Bloodborne Kart for a little while. It’s the latest project following her popular demake of Bloodborne into PSX-era graphics. Kart has the same graphical style, but leans into another…