Starlit Kart Racing

This remake of Star Fox 64 proves the Arwing isn’t out of style quite yet.

I recently finished reading Keza MacDonald's excellent Super Nintendo, a largely celebratory book about the company that "helped the world have fun", which nevertheless sounds a note of understandable caution at its conclusion. The author is concerned – and it's a concern I share – that Nintendo has been playing things too safe of late, that its release slate (with the odd exception) has become alarmingly conservative. It's time, surely, for the next Splatoon, and by that I don't mean Raiders. As hardware goes, Switch 2 is no big swing, and so far its software has generally followe

It's somehow been seven years since Yooka-Laylee's last proper adventure (I'm not sure 2025's remake, as enjoyable as it was, entirely counts), but the bat and lizard duo are finally back, and this time in a brand-new form. Yes, those recent leaks were right: we're in for some classic SNES-style kart racing action when the now-officially announced Super Yooka-Laylee Kart arrives for PC at some currently undisclosed future time. Read more

Out of all that Super Yooka-Laylee Kart is looking to deliver, what has me most excited and that I am more interested in is its custom rulesets that players will be able to tinker around with to create custom race types. These custom rules look to extend into the grand prix mode too, as during my cup race, I encountered races that would not only turn all racers invisible in one map, but then in the next made each racer the same character. That change specifically made the race all about mastery of the game’s systems and skill, removing any differences in weight or handling between the particip