{"id":109836,"date":"2020-03-03T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/mario_kart_tour_finally_gets_its_multiplayer_update_this_month"},"modified":"2020-03-03T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:05:00","slug":"mario-kart-tour-finally-gets-its-multiplayer-update-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/03\/mario-kart-tour-finally-gets-its-multiplayer-update-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart Tour Finally Gets Its Multiplayer Update This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fb90478b02f60\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fb90478b02f60\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mario Kart Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fb90478b02f60\/mario-kart-tour.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fb90478b02f60\/mario-kart-tour.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Kart Tour\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>When the beta of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a><\/strong> arrived on mobile devices last May, it didn&#8217;t take long for players around the world to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/the_beta_for_mario_kart_tour_doesnt_seem_to_include_proper_multiplayer_racing\">work out<\/a> that it didn&#8217;t actually include proper match-making. As we now know, the game grabs profiles of other players, which are then represented as CPU during a race.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on 8th March, Mario Kart&#8217;s mobile outing on Android and iOS devices will finally add <em>real<\/em> multiplayer. This follows on from a Gold Pass subscriber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/mario_kart_tours_multiplayer_beta_test_starts_this_december_but_youll_need_a_gold_pass_to_race\">beta test<\/a> last December. This new mode will allow you to compete against seven other players (with friends or others nearby, or with racers from around the world).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full details from the official Mario Kart Tour Twitter account:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mario Kart Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9d143b423a28\/mario-kart-tour.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9d143b423a28\/mario-kart-tour.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Kart Tour\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mario Kart Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e2a855085bf1\/mario-kart-tour.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e2a855085bf1\/mario-kart-tour.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Kart Tour\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Will you be trying out this new mode in the game when it arrives on 8th March? Are you still playing Mario Kart Tour on a regular basis? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the beta of Mario Kart Tour arrived on mobile devices last May, it didn&#8217;t take long for players around the world to work out that it didn&#8217;t actually include proper match-making. As we now know, the game grabs profiles of other players, which are then represented as CPU during a race. Now, on 8th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}