{"id":12971,"date":"2018-01-31T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2018-01-31T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T03:37:21","slug":"nintendo-announces-mario-kart-tour-coming-to-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/01\/nintendo-announces-mario-kart-tour-coming-to-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo announces Mario Kart Tour coming to smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo revealed that they are working on another game for mobile devices, this one featuring their biggest character &#8211; Mario. Start your engines as Mario will be making the leap to smartphones in <strong>Mario Kart Tour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Details are scare with just the single tweet tonight, but the game will be released next fiscal year. That means the game could be released any time between April 2018 and March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has four mobile games on the market and just announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/01\/nintendo-shutting-down-miitomo\/\">they are shutting down their first mobile game<\/a> <em>Miitomo<\/em>. Other mobile games from Nintendo for smartphones include <em>Fire Emblem Heroes<\/em>, <em>Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp<\/em>, and <em>Super Mario Run<\/em>. There are also a handful of Pok\u00e9mon themed games from The Pok\u00e9mon Company including <em>Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle<\/em>, which was first released on the Nintendo 3DS.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The checkered flag has been raised and the finish line is near. A new mobile application is now in development: Mario Kart Tour! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarioKartTour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarioKartTour<\/a> Releasing in the fiscal year ending in March 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8GIyR7ZM4z\">pic.twitter.com\/8GIyR7ZM4z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/958876622517452801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo revealed that they are working on another game for mobile devices, this one featuring their biggest character &#8211; Mario. Start your engines as Mario will be making the leap to smartphones in Mario Kart Tour. Details are scare with just the single tweet tonight, but the game will be released next fiscal year. 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