{"id":28388,"date":"2018-06-26T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320799"},"modified":"2018-06-26T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:30:00","slug":"nintendo-brings-labo-support-to-mario-kart-8-deluxe-with-more-games-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/nintendo-brings-labo-support-to-mario-kart-8-deluxe-with-more-games-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo brings Labo support to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with more games to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is updating <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> on the Switch to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/whatsnew\/detail\/nintendo-reveals-nintendo-labo-functionality-for-mario-kart-8-deluxe\">include support for the Toy-Con Motorbike<\/a> controller\u00a0that comes packed in the Nintendo Labo Variety Kit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The controller itself requires some assembly, however. The Toy-Con Motorbike is notably one of the many craftable cardboard creations included in Nintendo\u2019s Labo line earlier this year. While each of the Labo kits come with their own playable Switch game, the <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> update marks the first time support for a Labo Toy-Con has been included in a separate, non-Labo\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>Following the update, <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> players will be able to mount their Joy-Con controllers into the Labo Motobike setup and use their cardboard creation to steer in-game. A short video showing Labo support in action can be found right above this post.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> is the first game to pick up Labo support, Nintendo notes that it won\u2019t be the last. The company is looking to bring Nintendo Labo compatibility to more games in the future, though it hasn\u2019t detailed which titles it is looking at quite yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is updating Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch to include support for the Toy-Con Motorbike controller\u00a0that comes packed in the Nintendo Labo Variety Kit.\u00a0 The controller itself requires some assembly, however. The Toy-Con Motorbike is notably one of the many craftable cardboard creations included in Nintendo\u2019s Labo line earlier this year. While each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388","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=28388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}