Mario Kart. Everybody loves Mario Kart. And if you don’t, you’re weird. But if for some strange and completely illegitimate reason you don’t know what Mario Kart is, I shall explain. Mario Kart is a highly addictive Kart Racing game involving most of the charming characters from Nintendo’s lucrative Mario Intellectual Property (IP). Using your finest driving skills and a host of crazy weaponry you must race around dozens of tracks and arenas with the goal of winning by any means possible – Mario Kart: DS is set to feature sixteen new tracks as well as sixteen “favorites” from the previous editions, as well as a whole host of new weaponry. This game has graced numerous Nintendo consoles in many forms and is finally making its way to the NintendoDS in all its manic glory. Except this time, it features online-play.

Nintendo vow that "Mario Kart: DS will be the first Wi-Fi connection game in the UK”, imagine that, the ability to play Mario Kart against people from all over the world from any Wi-Fi Hot-Spot. And there’s more great news for any NintendoDS owners with wireless connections at home, Nintendo have confirmed that their Wi-Fi service is compatible with home broadband from launch day, which boys and girls, is November 25^th. So crack out whichever incarnation of this classic racer you have and get practicing, because you really don’t want to lose to some seven-year-old girl in Ohio that you don’t know and will never meet… do you?  

G-man

17/10/05

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