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In a surprising move, Nintendo has announced that Mario Kart Tour will be getting additional content in just a few short days. That’s actually pretty notable, as the company announced that updates for the game were coming to an end all the way back in September 2023. In that announcement, Nintendo explicitly stated that “no new courses, drivers, karts, or gliders will be added.” It seems the release of Mario Kart World was too big of a deal to let go by without some kind of celebration, so Mario Kart Tour is getting a special campaign.
The new Mario Kart Tour campaign will begin on Wednesday, July 23rd and will run through Wednesday, August 6th. During the event, players will be able to obtain Mario and Luigi’s mechanic outfits from Mario Kart World, and four new Karts will be added to the game. The Kart designs are all based on the Tiny Titan introduced in the Nintendo Switch 2 game. For those that have wanted an excuse to jump back into Mario Kart Tour, this would seem like the perfect excuse to do so.
While Mario Kart Tour‘s updates largely ended two years ago, the game remains fully playable. The mobile game had a large impact on the Mario Kart series, adding several new courses to the franchise. The vast majority of those courses were brought over to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe through that game’s Booster Course Pass DLC, but one of them remains fully exclusive. That course is Piranha Plant Pipeline, which actually just made a comeback in Mario Kart Tour earlier this month. The course will remain in the game through July 22nd, so fans can check it out right up until the start of the Mario Kart World crossover event.
