Nintendo announced the first Mario Kart Wii Online Tournament. Every few weeks, a new tournament will appear on the Mario Kart Channel. Different tournaments will have different rules. The official press release mentions some might ask players to race a certain course as fast as they can with specific characters, or to collect a number of coins on a course using the Wii Wheel or another certain control setup. You can attempt the test as many times as you like however, you will only be able to participate in this tournament till May 9th.

Sounds pretty interesting. Seems like they are handling this similar to the way they handle the Mii Channel, where Mii contests are posted occasionally.

Mario Kart Wii is a nice collaboration of many of the great ideas we’ve seen in many the previous versions. The slide boosting, drift boosting, battle mode, and all the classic arsenal like bananas and turtle shells. One of the best upgrades added to the Wii version is 12 player online racing. The game also allows a second player to play split-screen on the same console during these online matches. Unlike the Mario Kart DS, there are online battle modes and now with up to 8 players! (more…)

AudioSurf has been available on Valve’s Steam service for some time now. There has been a recent rumor that it will be appearing on Xbox Live soon. Unfortunately, these rumors don’t look to promising. I have been playing AudioSurf for the PC and using the Xbox 360 Controller. I can see this being a good match also considering the PC version awards achievements similar to those on Xbox Live. Personally, I’d like to see AudioSurf on the Zune or IPod in the future. Keep reading and you’ll figure out why an mp3 player would be a perfect match for this kind of game. (more…)