{"id":335566,"date":"2017-03-11T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/10\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-gets-new-racers-and-revives-old-modes\/21|21879651"},"modified":"2017-03-11T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:39:00","slug":"mario-kart-8-deluxe-gets-new-racers-and-revives-old-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-gets-new-racers-and-revives-old-modes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mario Kart 8 Deluxe&#8217; gets new racers and revives old modes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKB9FEXhJ68?rel=0&#038;wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inkling Girl and Inkling Boy from the instant classic <em>Splatoon<\/em> join the racer lineup (and bring their own custom carts, too), along with King Boo, Dry Bones and Bowser, Jr. It also includes a redone Battle mode that revives modes from Kart games of yore, from classic balloon battle to <em>Double Dash<\/em>&#8216;s Bob-omb Blast, <em>Mario Kart Wii&#8217;<\/em>s coin challenge and others. Plus, players can hold two items at once now &#8212; including the Battle-exclusive jump-enabling Feather, which hasn&#8217;t been seen since the original <em>Super Mario Kart<\/em> on SNES.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> comes out on April 28th alongside the strap-on Joy Con wheel peripherals released the same day, which will be sold in packs of two for $15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/3da7054072049db448701d1b69b73783\/205040258\/mariokart8deluxe.JPG\" \/>Without any hint that a new version was in the works, it was pretty clear that Mario Kart 8, one of the best reasons to own a Wii U, would be ported to the Switch. This is good news for the record-breaking legions of folks who bought the new console&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-335566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}