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Now that's a Yoshi of a different color! As part of its big Mario Kart 8 update announcement yesterday, Nintendo revealed that two of the game's most popular characters—Shy Guy and Yoshi—are now available in eight different shades. They all look pretty great:

Nintendo announced some good stuff that's coming to Mario Kart 8 in a new update alongside the...controversial Mercedez Benz DLC pack. They're incremental tweaks, but they sound like welcome improvements all the same. Here are the ones I'm looking forward to: Read more

All 30 Mario Kart 8 characters, reviewed. Read John Teti's hilarious take on the cartoon cast in Nintendo's newest kart racer. "Rather than being an empty sad-sack, Luigi has become the personified answer to the question, 'What if Mario were kind of an asshole?' And this is awesome." Read more

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