Masahiro Sakurai returned to Nintendo Direct for a deep dive on his next project, and he made a few jokes along the way.

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After going hands-on with the new Nintendo Switch 2 racer, it's clear that Air Riders can coexist on a system with Mario Kart ...

Masahiro Sakurai's bizarre, deceptively complex Nintendo Switch 2 racer recalls Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Super Smash Bros. I got to take it for a test drive ahead of its November 20 release.

After the recent 48-minute long showcase from Nintendo, one of my friends said that Kirby Air Raiders is Mario Kart, but if ...

Kirby Air Riders, coming to Switch 2 in November, bucks every kart racer convention and could barely be described as a racing ...

In every other way, Kirby Air Riders is so extremely not just a Mario Kart redux that riding around 150cc matches at home ...

Where Air Riders diverges from its original source material is that there are a bunch of other playable characters besides ...

"The original was widely viewed as a racing game featuring Kirby," Sakurai says during the livestream. "You might be asking yourself if it's basically Mario Kart. You race and bat ...

Kirby Air Riders feels like the epitome of a 22-year-old game, but it may even play better with a GameCube controller.

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After a couple hours with Kirby Air Riders, it became clear that expecting Mario Kart was a mistake, because the chaos here ...