This week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got online voice chat as part of Nintendo Switch Online. Before now, I didn’t think I would want to hear from any of my competitors in Mario Kart. Turns out, it rules.

The Standard ATV with Cyber Slick wheels used to be my favourite kart combination in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In my quest to find the game’s best kart, I learned that my build is not ideal. Thanks to further data analysis via the gaming blog SNSG, I now know that it’s one of the worst builds in the game.

Nintendo just announced a couple of new updates to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, adding some Breath of the Wild-related items to the game.

If your Nintendo Labo cardboard is lying around in a post-launch pile, you could try digging it out and playing some Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with it.

Every single time you do a drift in Mario Kart, you charge up a speed boost that unleashes when you exit the drift. But there's a lot more happening under the hood when it comes to this speed boost: How fast it charges, how long it lasts, and whether or not it's actually going to shave any seconds off your final time. That all depends on what kart you choose and which track you're on.

You only get to choose between one of the three games, and Pokken Tournament isn't really everyone's cup of tea. But if you've been sitting on the fence with the Switch, now isn't a bad time to jump in.

Now that Nintendo has removed the fire hopping advantage from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, there's a different high-level technique players need to master: soft drifting. The only problem? Soft drifting is much harder to pull off in Deluxe than it was in Mario Kart 8.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is amazingly fun and offers an exciting experience every time you play. But how is it so good? One little sentence from PlayerUnknown himself makes it clear. We take a look in this critical video.

The Mario Kart World Cup kicks off today, featuring teams from 10 nations competing in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch, as well as Mario Kart Wii, a 2008 classic that remains a touchstone for the Mario Kart competitive scene. Both games feature 12-player races, so each nation will put forward its six best players to compete for the highest score.

Yesterday's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe update fixes a lot of bugs for online matches, as well as making the game a bit more fair for players that are losing.

In my search for the best kart in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I paid almost no attention to the bikes. Neither did any of the build recommendation websites that I cited. That's because a lot of the bikes in Mario Kart 8 didn't used to be viable in competitive play. Turns out, I shouldn't have been so quick to write them off. As of MK8 Deluxe, bikes -- specifically, inside drifting bikes -- have become contenders once more.

I wanted to find the best kart to use in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Easier said than done.

There's no question that the Mario Kart's AI is a big cheater. Anyone who plays the game has probably noticed how the computer-controlled racers tend to catch up to you no matter what and always have an item in hand during the race's final moments. But what advantages, exactly, do the robot racers get in comparison to their human opponents? The question has become relevant once more with the new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Switch, in which the artificial intelligence appears to have snapped the rules of fair play in two. Or it could all be a matter of psychology, as some experts have argued.

You're in first place and the finish line is in sight. Everything is going just fine until you hear that weird electronic whirring coming from behind. Someone's dropped a blue shell and you think you're doomed when all of the sudden it hits the person just behind you instead. Sacré bleu!

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch just got an update that amongst other tweaks changes one of Inkling Girl's animations, which I guess Nintendo didn't realise meant something a little more offensive in Europe than it did in Japan.

Mario Kart has been around for 25 years and the fun has never let up. How has the beloved racing manage to stay so exciting over the years? We take a look in this critical video.

Over 8 million people picked up Mario Kart 8 when it dropped on the Wii U, but that hasn't stopped people from throwing blue and red shells en masse. Including yours truly.

Unsurprisingly, Mario Kart 8 on the Switch is just as rage inducing as every other Mario Kart.

Last week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was way out in front in the Japanese sales chart, surprising absolutely no one. Some of the entries, however, might catch you off guard.