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This past weekend Pedro Pascal, star of HBO’s The Last of Us, guest hosted on Saturday Night Live. Because The Last of Us is based on the video game of the same name, they did a skit starring Pascal in another famous game. The narrator …Read more »
The Mario Cafe and Store opened at Universal Studios Japan on 16 October 2020, serving Mario-themed food and selling some really cool merch! It’s the world’s first official Mario Cafe. The store’s exterior is on point, with exacting attention to detail with regard to the …Read more »
Friday marked the release date of Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, an augmented reality game where you drive a Mario RC car around a track you build in your house. You control it with your Nintendo Switch, which shows the view from the car’s camera …Read more »
Last month we posted about the latest update in the saga of the Mario Kart-inspired go kart rental company formerly known as MariCar and now called Street Kart. At the time, after multiple legal battles with Nintendo and issues surrounding COVID-19, the company was attempting …Read more »
The saga will never truly end for the bootleg Mario Kart-esque go kart rental company, once known as MariCar before multiple legal battles with Nintendo forced them to change it to Street Kart. If the name isn’t familiar, you’ll probably recognize them as the annoying …Read more »
In the past, we’ve covered the real-life, unofficial Mario Kart tour offered in Tokyo through Mari Mobility, which was previously known as Maricar. Not only were the karts—complete with drivers in full Mario character costumes—obnoxious to drivers and pedestrians alike, they totally infringed on Nintendo’s …Read more »
It still boggles our minds to see Nintendo games on non-Nintendo hardware, but here it is: Mario Kart Tour is set to race onto iOS and Android September 25. That’s according to a new trailer from the big N themselves. The game has been delayed a few …Read more »
It seems like just yesterday we were posting about the time MariCar was defeated in court by Nintendo. Now the Japanese Go Kart tour service—which rents Mario Kart-themed cosplay to customers and lets them whizz around the streets of Tokyo in annoying little karts that cause no …Read more »
Last year we reported on MariCar, a Go-kart tour service in Japan which rents Mario Kart-themed cosplay to customers as they are lead on a driving tour around Tokyo. In characteristic fashion, Nintendo felt the need to protect their IP from damage and began a …Read more »
Nintendo has its own Universal Studios theme park on the way, so why would they let a bunch of impostors take to the streets in Tokyo with “real world” Mario Kart services? MariCAR Shinagawa has been doing just that for a while now, giving people …Read more »
Last year someone sent a slew of nasty, threatening messages to Nintendo, and as a result Nintendo called off some events out of safety concerns. Now police have announced that they believe they have the culprit. Beyond the threats, the man is in trouble for …Read more »
The opening of Super Nintendo World, initially set for February 4, was delayed by the global pandemic. However, they have been running preview events and dry rehearsals for six weeks now, asking visitors to hold back sharing anything on social media until February 4. I …Read more »
For a few years Nintendo and Mari Mobility Development Inc. have been duking it out (legally). Mari Mobility Development Inc. owns MariCar, a Mario-Kart-esque tourist attraction in Tokyo and Osaka where you used to be able to wear Nintendo outfits while driving. Nintendo’s initial fears, …Read more »
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