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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, is now taking issue with Mario Kart World and specifically the Cow character. Cow is playable for the first time in series history. With that new popularity and overall interest in the game, it’s caught the attention of PETA. The organization is requesting for the nose ring to be …

PETA is asking Nintendo to remove the nose ring from the Cow character in Mario Kart World. The organization argues that the current design promotes animal cruelty and clearly clashes with the Mario Kart World character’s otherwise whimsical charm. A U.S. animal rights nonprofit, PETA has targeted Nintendo over half a dozen times since the late aughts. It did so …

Image: Nintendo Mario Kart World is running a Summer Vacation Skill Test event in-game later this month. Announced on social media by Nintendo — and translated by OatmealDome — you’ll be able to participate in 150cc races with others to try and become one of the top 100 players in the world. The event takes place on 23rd August 2025 …

It’s fair to say that Nintendo’s had a pretty good few months. After just four days, the Switch 2 had sold 3.5 million units, making it the most successful console launch of all time. Nintendo is now reporting it sold just shy of six million Switch 2s in the system’s first month, along with 8.6 million games. Of those, an …

Nintendo Switch 2 sold more than 6 million units in its first seven weeks on sale, Nintendo has announced. The company released its latest financial results on Friday, which cover the three months ended June 30, and are the first to include Switch 2 sales. Switch 2’s big launch game, Mario Kart World, sold nearly as many copies as the …

Nintendo sold 5.82m Switch 2 consoles worldwide in its first month of release and 5.63m copies of Mario Kart World, meaning the launch title has an attachment rate of around 97 percent. The figures come from Nintendo’s latest earnings release as of 30th June, where the company added software sales for Switch 2 reached 8.67m units in that same period. …

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Nintendo’s latest financial results are live, and the platform holder has confirmed Switch 2 hardware sales “exceeding 6 million units globally in the seven weeks after launch.” Switch 2 launched on 5th June and today’s Q1 financial report includes figures up to the end of that month. The stated figure of “more than 6 …

Nintendo has updated Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World with a fresh patch that pulls a notable U-turn on a recent, controversial change. Last month, Nintendo upset Mario Kart fans by nerfing the game’s Random course selection option when playing in VS mode — something many players were deliberately using to try and opt out of open-world driving whenever …

Nintendo has released an update for Mario Kart World which adds various new features and tweaks. The most notable of these for some players will be the decision to dial down the game’s difficulty by making its AI opponents easier, with Nintendo‘s patch notes saying it has “made COM weaker in everything other than Battle”. Some players have previously pointed …

Nintendo’s chaotic racer is undergoing some changes today thanks to its Ver. 1.2.0 update, which tries addressing many of the biggest complaints about the game. Emphasis on tries: at least one of the adjustments to Mario Kart World isn’t quite what it seems based on player testing. So, what’s new? We’ll drop the whole patch notes at the end of …