All Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack 2 Tracks Revealed!

DLC Pack 2 for Mario Kart 8 is on its way next week and today we found out a lot more about the eight courses that will be included within the pack. Trailers for all eight new courses were released on Nintendo of Japan’s official YouTube page. Each track looks positively stunning and are sure to be welcome additions to the game. The following is a list of the new tracks, but click here to see an overview trailer that contains some footage of each course and here to go to the playlist that contains within it all of the brand new trailers that shows off each race individually.

The first new track, of course, is the Animal Crossing themed course that we saw during the Nintendo Direct at the beginning of the month. We know that it contains changing seasons and features a lot of fan favorite Animal Crossing characters. It looks to be a beautiful course that has a unique mechanic and pays great homage to the game it’s based off of.

Next, is the first returning course: Cheese Land from Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It’s a desert inspired course with large pieces of cheese scattered around the landscape and giant chain chomps ready to take you out as you fly by them.

Summary of Nintendo Direct – 4/1/15

It may be April Fool’s Day, but Nintendo wasn’t kidding around with this Direct. It was a long one, so keep on reading if you want to find out about the highlights from the Direct. Click here if you want to watch it for yourself. Without any further ado, here’s the summary:

• To start off, Mewtwo is on his way to Smash Bros.! An awesome new trailer showed off the Mewtwo DLC in Super Smash Bros for the Wii U and 3DS and even featured his brand new Final Smash attack! It was also revealed he will be available on the 28^th of April! If you registered both versions of Smash Bros. you will receive the download code on the 15^th.
• Smash Bros. will also be getting brand new Mii costumes, even some inspired by video game characters including Dunban, Link, and Proto Man which will be available on April 15^th as well!
• But there’s more! In a surprising announcement coupled with the tag “Lucas Comes Out of Nowhere”! Mother 3 protagonist Lucas will be coming back to the Smash Bros. series! He will be available via DLC in June!
• And a brand new Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot will be open to help submit ideas for new Smash Bros. fighters! They will not be able to listen to all requests, of course, but they will take suggestions into consideration.
• In amiibo news, the Wave 3 of amiibos will be released on May 29^th, and the next wave of Smash Bros. figures was also announced! These include: Dark Pit and Palutena (due for release in July) and Olimar, Bowser Jr. Dr. Mario, Zero Suit Samus, and Ganondorf (due for release in September). Some of these amiibos will also be retailer-exclusive. And, as a bonus, Mewtwo and Lucas figures are stated to be on their way in the future as well.

Summary of Nintendo Direct- 11-5-14

There was another exciting Direct today and just like we’ve come to expect from Nintendo it was full of cool new information and a couple surprises. Click here if you want to watch the Direct for yourself before reading.

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The first surprise—though this has been long speculated—was the reveal of The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask 3D for the 3DS and 2DS. The much anticipated remake of the N64 classic is due to release in Spring of 2015. It seems to be rather faithful to the original, but it’s said that the game will be accessible to new players as well.

The next game discussed was Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Almost all of the talk about this game was focused on the battle mechanics and explaining the depth that each fight can have. Additionally, they also highlighted four of the game’s characters: the main character Henry Fleming, the Lion from Oz, Tiger Lilly (from Peter Pan, I believe), and Tom Sawyer (from, of course, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). The game is slated for a release in Spring 2015 which is soon shaping up to be a busy time of the year for Nintendo.

Trailer Reveals Excitebike Arena for Mario Kart 8 DLC

Here’s another quick post sharing the link for a brand new trailer for the upcoming Mario Kart 8 DLC pack.  Click here to watch it for yourself! In this trailer, we see the brand new Excitebike Arena! This course, as you can tell from the title, is based off the classic game Excitebike and is largely an oval-shaped course with a few jumps and mud pits thrown in. The track itself is pretty basic, but those types of tracks always make for the most intense of races. It reminds me a lot of Baby Park and I wonder if it’ll be more than 3 laps long. The most interesting aspect of the course, however, is that the trailer implies that it may have a few design variations. How unique and cool. I wonder if its randomized or if there are only a few different versions. We’ll have to wait and see.
The trailer also shows off Cat Peach and Tanooki Mario, though weirdly enough, no Link.  Hopefully, the next trailer will feature him. Also, the release date for this pack is still pretty vague considering that November is just a few days away. I really hope this DLC pack gets released sooner rather than later next month, I’m really excited for it!

Until Then,

-The Nintendo Nerd

Photo of Link and His Master Cycle from MK8 DLC

Click here to check out Link’s awesome new ride, the Master Cycle,  from the upcoming Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack as seen on Nintendo’s official Twitter account. The bike looks pretty cool and I know that I can’t wait to try it out.

New Mario Kart 8 DLC- Link, Animal Crossing, New Courses, and New Costumes!

Wow! Talk about unexpected!

We were already on track to receive the Mercedes Benz DLC for Mario Kart 8 today, but just a few hours ago it was announced that we’ll be getting even more DLC in the future!

Unbelievably we’ll be receiving some very awesome DLC in the form of 16 brand new tracks, new non-Mario characters, and alternate costumes and colors for other characters. Not to mention new karts and bikes!

Nintendo has announced a plethora of awesome DLC that will come to us in two separate packs.

The first pack, to be released in November (wow, so soon!), will include Link from the Legend of Zelda, Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach, 4 new vehicles– including the Blue Falcon– and 8 new tracks (one of them appears to be Wario’s Gold Mine from Mario Kart Wii and the other seems to be based on F-Zero).

The second pack, to be released in May (which seems so far off now), will include Isabelle and the Villager from Animal Crossing, Dry Bowser, 4 vehicles, and 8 new tracks–at least one track, shown off in the promotional photos which seems to be based off Animal Crossing.

Also, anyone purchasing either pack will also be a

ble to change the colors of their Yoshi or Shy Guy characters as well. That’s not too bad, I suppose.

I’m super hyped for this DLC. Though it means Mario Kart isn’t so exclusively for Mario characters anymore, it doesn’t bother me to see some representation from other games. Mario still is the star of this game, so, to me, it’s no less his than it was before.
I’m a HUGE Animal Crossing fan, so seeing some love for that game in here makes me pretty excited. I can’t wait to see that Animal Crossing course and to race against everyone’s favorite secretary, Isabelle. And though it’s weird seeing Link driving a go-kart, I still can’t wait to play as him in the game.

If you’re excited about this DLC like me, you can already preorder them starting tomorrow in the Nintendo eShop.

I’ll be sure to post again about any updates or reveals concerning these DLC packs in the future.

Until Then,

-The Nintendo Nerd