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Mario Kart Tour has always been an interesting addition to Nintendo's library, with the mobile-exclusive title doing many things better than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – but also a whole bunch worse. Following 4 years of support and updates, Mario Kart Tour will no longer be getting any new content after October.

Making the announcement via the game’s news tab, Nintendo announced that Mario Kart Tour will soon cease development, saying: “Thank you for playing the Mario Kart Tour game. This message is to notify you about the tours that are scheduled for the future.”

They continue, “From 10/04/2023 (Wed) on [4th of October], tours will consist of content from tours that have appeared before. Note: No new courses, drivers, karts, or gliders will be added following the Battle Tour starting 10/04/2023 (Wed). We hope you continue to enjoy playing Mario Kart Tour.”

As mentioned, Mario Kart has been a bit of an anomaly for the franchise and Nintendo. While some of the game’s mechanics – such as the driving itself – feels nowhere nearly as good as its console counterpart, Tours was supported with a great deal of content including new characters, tracks, vehicles and more.

In total there are more than 250 playable characters in Mario Kart Tour, with over 100 tracks to race on – making it by far the most content-rich entry in the series. It will be interesting to see what else Nintendo has planned for mobile devices in the future.

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Mario Kart Tour is getting rid of its lootboxes https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/mustafa-mahmoud/mario-kart-tour-is-getting-rid-of-its-lootboxes/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/mustafa-mahmoud/mario-kart-tour-is-getting-rid-of-its-lootboxes/#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:00:44 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=573093 Lootboxes have become a cursed word within the video games industry, with many developers shying away from the exploitative and manipulative practice of including such gacha elements into their games. One of the games which still use loot boxes is the free-to-play Mario Kart Tour. Fortunately, Nintendo has now announced that they will be completely …

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Lootboxes have become a cursed word within the video games industry, with many developers shying away from the exploitative and manipulative practice of including such gacha elements into their games. One of the games which still use loot boxes is the free-to-play Mario Kart Tour. Fortunately, Nintendo has now announced that they will be completely removing lootboxes in an upcoming update.

Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Mario Kart Tour account said “Here's a peek at #MarioKartTour's update coming late September! Battle mode will be added, along with a Spotlight Shop, where you can exchange rubies for drivers, karts, and gliders! Also, pipes you can fire by using rubies will be removed. See the notification for details.”

Instead of loot boxes, Mario Kart Tour used pipes, though they functioned in the exact same way as lootboxes and so them being removed is a welcome change for the mobile title. It seems these pipes will be replaced by the Spotlight Shop, allowing you to manually select which character/kart/glider you want to purchase.

We do not yet know the full details on how this shop will work and so it is possible that players will simply be able to purchase any character at any point in time. Alternatively the team could be taking the Fortnite model, where characters are put on sale for a limited amount of time and for varying prices.

Regardless of how it is implemented, knowing what you are purchasing before you purchase it is a purely positive move and so it is encouraging to see Mario Kart Tour heading in that direction.

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KitGuru says: Do you play Mario Kart Tour? Are you glad to see the pipes being removed? How do you think the store will be implemented? Let us know down below.

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Mario Kart Tour might be coming to PC https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/mustafa-mahmoud/mario-kart-tour-might-be-coming-to-pc/ https://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/mustafa-mahmoud/mario-kart-tour-might-be-coming-to-pc/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:00:41 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=566760 While Sony has over time adopted a more multi-platform approach to its game development, Nintendo has remained rather rigid with its own first-party titles. The exception to this rule has been with the mobile market, where Nintendo has translated some of their franchises into mobile experience. It seems that one of these mobile titles – …

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While Sony has over time adopted a more multi-platform approach to its game development, Nintendo has remained rather rigid with its own first-party titles. The exception to this rule has been with the mobile market, where Nintendo has translated some of their franchises into mobile experience. It seems that one of these mobile titles – Mario Kart Tour – might actually be coming to PC.

As reported by ResetEra user MondoMega, a recent update to mobile game Mario Kart Tour has been datamined, offering insight into Nintendo’s future plans for the title. The game itself looks to be getting some rather significant additions and improvements, from new courses to a battle mode, and even the inclusion of anti-gravity. Furthermore, it seems Tour will in some way connect to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – though for what purpose we do not yet know.

Perhaps the most interesting detail however is a text string which hints at future PC support. According to MondoMega, mouse support has been added to the game as well as references to support for ‘Native Emulation’. This is most likely related to an upcoming service by Google which will see Google Play Store apps and games officially playable on PC through emulation.

It seems Nintendo is gearing up for this service, and while Mario Kart Tour coming to PC is certainly less exciting than if 8 Deluxe were to find its way onto Steam, any steps by Nintendo – no matter how small – into the PC market is a welcome one indeed.

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KitGuru says: What do you think of these details? Would you play Mario Kart Tour on PC? What do you think Nintendo is planning? Let us know down below.

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FSP puts safety first ahead of IEC 62368 https://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies/andrzej/fsp-puts-safety-first-ahead-of-iec-62368/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies/andrzej/fsp-puts-safety-first-ahead-of-iec-62368/#respond Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:00:34 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=374962 As part of its preparation for the introduction of tough new EU safety requirements for power supplies in 2019, FSP invited KitGuru along to its main office in Taiwan just ahead of Computex 2018. We were given a tour of the safety lab process by the engineer who runs it, Mike Lin, before getting hands …

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As part of its preparation for the introduction of tough new EU safety requirements for power supplies in 2019, FSP invited KitGuru along to its main office in Taiwan just ahead of Computex 2018. We were given a tour of the safety lab process by the engineer who runs it, Mike Lin, before getting hands on with the first FSP power supply to satisfy the new requirements.

With multiple, large-scale factories dotted across mainland China, FSP claims to produce over 50 million power supplies a year. That figure seems incredible, until you take into account its 3rd party manufacturing of PSUs for other brands and power products for other industries – including power units for televisions and external power bricks for laptops.

From Mike's point of view, the most important aspect of IEC 62368 is that if a unit were to catch fire, the flames must be contained within the power supply and cannot be allowed to escape. Work on the new European standard started ages ago, but you have to wonder if something like IEC 62368 could have helped to prevent the Grenfell Fire tragedy, which was caused by a Hotpoint fridge.

We were shown 13 distinct tests that FSP units must pass. Mike Stressed that his was the product safety department and – in addition to his lab and testing – that R&D had their own facilities (for units that have yet to come to production) and the manufacturing plants themselves also have the ability to pull products out of the line for spot checks. Every PSU will undergo a baseline test to ensure it functions within specified parameters and up to 10% will be pulled for more in-depth testing – which is all part of the certification process required by bodies like TUV and UL.

These are the stages we were shown:

1) Working Voltage Check
Comparing primary (AC mains) to secondary stage (DC internal). The bigger the gap in voltages, the further the physical separation between each section needs to be, in order for the unit to be declared safe.

  

2) Touch Current Check
Specifically, they are looking for leakage. The main component here is the transformer. You also have a white cap which is designed to reduce noise on the line. It's important that the electricity stays where it's supposed to. Lower quality components can cause a unit to fail this test, but as you increase component quality, you also increase the cost of the PSU. Production specialists need to understand where the ‘balance point' exists and to stay on the safety side of the line.

3) Temperature Sensing
Special glue is used to attach sensors to every part of each PCB – measuring temperatures everywhere. The glue is designed to have zero impact on the results. The resulting ‘web' is quite possibly the maddest thing we have ever seen.

4) Environmental Testing
This stage uses an ambient chamber which can deliver a steady 50 degree environment with no airflow.

5) Impact Testing
Definitely the most fun part of the day. Any part of an FSP product that can be touched by a customer, will have been tested by Mike and his assistant Lucifer (we kid you not!). This includes a sturdy ball being dropped from a fixed distance onto the prescribed impact points to show how well a product can withstand being hit hard.

6) No Fingers – No Tools
FSP must ensure that a customer’s finger cannot enter the ‘live’ parts of an AV component, and they do a similar test for ‘small screwdrivers’ with regular PSUs. If contact is possible, then that part must be isolated.

7) Stress Testing
Quite self explanatory this one – power supplies are tested to make sure that all of the components are OK to be stressed past their certified levels.

8) MTBF Calculation
With enough testing, you can calculate the MTBF (mean/average time between failures) for the final supply. Mike's guys are looking for 100,000 hours (around 11 years), but R&D will also force-test selected units to see how they might react to running for 200,000 or even 500,000 hours.

9) Electro Magnetic Interference Testing
This happens in 2 parts. First is conduction testing – to make sure that energy is going through the wire and not exiting sideways. The second is the radiation test. Once the door to the radiation chamber is shut, the giant antenna can pick up signals from 3 metres away. In both cases, the test equipment is looking for less than a 6dB variance.

 

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10) Echo Chamber
It's important that power supplies are seen and not heard. We got a slightly wobbly feeling inside the huge anechoic chamber which makes you realise how much of a human's balance is dictated by the way our ears/brain constantly process reflected sound waves. Once the chamber door is shut, the noise in the room drops below 8 dBA.

The unit being tested when we arrived was from the FSP ‘Twin' series, which pairs two PSUs together for redundancy. With two fans instead of one, this is arguably one of the louder set-ups possible. The measurement of 38 dBA is taken by a sensitive microphone positioned 1 metre away – and set at 30 degrees above the unit. Putting the PSU in a case would deaden a lot of that noise and putting the completed system under a desk would render it almost inaudible. Not as quiet as a fanless design, but pretty silent for a regular user. These shots show the test set up, the very thick door to the chamber and the output from dual PSUs.

11) Halt
This is where PSUs are sent to die. This test chamber includes extreme vibration and heat testing. Around 120 degrees should be enough to kill most PSUs (and most people). The same can probably be said for 2 hours of extreme vibration. The ‘Halt' test is designed to stop a PSU in its tracks – so the engineers know what the extreme limits are for the unit's survival.

12) Thermal Shock Test
The FSP engineers working in this section look like normal people, but they definitely have the coolest/most evil kit. I'm told that going from -25C to +80C in 3 minutes is close to the limit for most PSUs. With a smile, I'm informed that -40 degrees to +100 Celsius will ‘do it' for most power supplies.

13) Surge Test
Lightning may not strike twice that often in the real world, but this test rig can zap up to 15,000 volts through a product whenever it's needed. The question being asked is ‘can a PSU pass EMS testing – before being killed?'. The second part of the surge test is EFT which varies the input AC voltage by +/-90 volts.

We were then taken to a presentation room and given hands on time with the first FSP power supply to pass not only the existing TUV/UL tests that we had been shown, but also the IEC 62368 safety check.

In the UK, a fire door will be required to protect people for half an hour (for example) before ‘burning through'. Asking how long the unit had to be able to contain an ‘internal fire', we expected a similar answer.

“No. It can't burn through. At all. That is the new standard. In the unlikely event that there was a fire, it must stay inside the unit, flames cannot be allowed to escape”, we were told by Joey, one of the Senior Managers (on the right).  The ‘wall shot' shows just how many industries FSP plays a role in.

   

KitGuru says: It was interesting to see the variety of tests that modern power supplies have to prove that they can endure – and the introduction of the new IEC 6238 standard will make things even safer. We asked about price and when they would be introduced. FSP indicated that pricing wouldn't change by any noticeable amount and that the new, even safer products would be phased in over the coming year. A big thank you to Sean Liao for organising the tour and to Joey Cheng for being our guide around the vast FSP building.

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Radeon Software: Crimson Edition is here https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/drivers/matthew-wilson/radeon-software-crimson-edition-is-here/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/drivers/matthew-wilson/radeon-software-crimson-edition-is-here/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:02:40 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=276060 Today marks the beginning of a new era for AMD, as the Catalyst Control Centre is being put to rest and we push forward with Radeon Software: Crimson Edition, the first step in AMD's plan to double its driver support efforts. From now on, we can expect six WHQL driver releases a year, along with …

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Today marks the beginning of a new era for AMD, as the Catalyst Control Centre is being put to rest and we push forward with Radeon Software: Crimson Edition, the first step in AMD's plan to double its driver support efforts. From now on, we can expect six WHQL driver releases a year, along with a big special edition release each year.

Catalyst Control Centre

The Catalyst Control Centre was a little slow when it comes to load times. The user interface was also a little outdated, having remained largely the same for many years, so on that front alone, the switch to Radeon Software is a pleasing one.

Radeon Settings Home Page

While the old Catalyst home page would serve you with an advert of some kind, the new Radeon Settings home page does away with that, which helps with quicker boot times. You can also see that the amount of tabs available to click though has been significantly cut down in order to present a cleaner UI.

Radeon Software Gaming Radeon Software Overdrive

The new gaming tab will give you access to your Overdrive settings and global graphics settings. The functionality is familiar, with options for forced anti-aliasing, V-sync and frame rate target control, a fairly new feature that allows users to control their GPU output to target a specific frame rate, which can help with things like power consumption or temperatures in games where you don't necessarily need your GPU at full power, like MOBAs.

The new Overdrive window is also similar in terms of functionality. You get served with a warning about overclocking before getting access and from there, you are free to tweak with power limits, core clocks, memory clocks and fan control.

Radeon Software Video Tab

The new video settings tab lets you customize the video playback experience, with settings for brightness, AMD's ‘fluid motion' video technology, vibrance and sharpness. Most people will leave this on the default setting, though there are plenty of options for those who know what they are doing.

Radeon Display

The new display settings window consolidates what used to be three separate tabs in to one screen. The basic window allows you to set up FreeSync and Virtual Super Resolution- which can now be used on the desktop to give lower resolution displays more screen real-estate for multitasking. However, clicking on the ‘additional settings' option will bring up the old UI, with access to other features like custom resolutions, or setting your preferred colour depth.

Radeon Software System Tab

Even the system information tab contains more details. In previous drivers, this tab would only show you information about your GPU, or AMD CPU if you had one, but now it shows Intel CPUs, your operating system and system memory too.

That just about concludes our tour of the new user interface but there have been plenty of behind the scenes improvements as well, which are worth talking about. For starters, launch times have been substantially improved, with systems featuring a Haswell or Skylake Core i7 and a Radeon R9 390 or Fury GPU booting the software anywhere between 2.8x and 4.6x faster than the previous Catalyst driver.

Radeon Crimson Power Draw

On top of that, system power draw has also been a big focus. Radeon Software: Crimson Edition will control power usage in more scenarios with R9 300 and Fury series GPUs. This includes simple tasks like watching HD video on YouTube. As the graph above shows, AMD is touting a 20W power saving for the entire system between Radeon Software and Catalyst Control Centre while watching a 1080p video on YouTube.

Radeon Crimson Rocket League

Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) can also now be utilised in DirectX 9 titles, which can lead to power savings. Limiting Rocket League to 90 frames per second at 1080p yielded some pretty positive results, according to AMD's own test, showing a total system power saving of 125W simply by limiting the frame rate, in a system using an Intel Core i7 5960x CPU, 16GB of DDR4 RAM and an R9 Fury X.

CrossFire users will be happy to learn that some improvements have been made to frame pacing in the new driver. This feature is also capable of working with DirectX 9 titles now, in addition to DirectX 11. There has also been a reported reduction in frame hitching during games, which should result in a smoother experience overall.

While AMD initially announced Radeon Software: Crimson Edition earlier this month, it has taken a couple of weeks to put the finishing touches on everything. We are happy to report that the driver is now available to download, HERE.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: Radeon Software: Crimson Edition seems like a step in the right direction for AMD and its driver support. The new UI is much nicer but a lot of behind the scenes changes have also been made to help improve the overall experience. How many of you are currently running an AMD GPU? What do you think of all of the new driver changes? 

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Google Street View offering tours of Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones Sets https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/google-street-view-offering-tours-of-breaking-bad-and-game-of-thrones-sets/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/google-street-view-offering-tours-of-breaking-bad-and-game-of-thrones-sets/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:03:26 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=208425 Google Street View is a handy little tool, not only does it let you take a peek at almost anywhere you want to go in order to virtually explore the area but now you can take a private virtual tour through the sets of TV Shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Why is …

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Google Street View is a handy little tool, not only does it let you take a peek at almost anywhere you want to go in order to virtually explore the area but now you can take a private virtual tour through the sets of TV Shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.

Why is Google doing this? To promote several of this year's Emmy Award nominees, of course. Google has supplied a little ‘highlight reel‘ of the most notable places you can explore, including Freddy's BBQ rib joint from House of Cards, Los Pollos Hermanos from Breaking Bad and even the city of Yunkai from Game of Thrones.

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Google Maps has had plenty of novel uses in the past, including an 8-bit map transformation, virtual re-creations of college campuses and even a step back in time, showing off what places looked like in the past.

Aside from Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and House of Cards, you can also check out some places from Downton Abbey and Scandal.

Check out Google's blog post, HERE.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: Have any of you guys found anything cool using Google Maps? No, your house doesn't count.

Source: 9t05 Google

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Gigabyte Tech Tour 2013 lands in London https://www.kitguru.net/channel/event/mikey/gigabyte-tech-tour-2013-lands-in-london/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/event/mikey/gigabyte-tech-tour-2013-lands-in-london/#respond Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:59:18 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=131833 Gigabyte is one of the oldest and most famous technology brands, with a huge fan base and reputation for challenging at the top end of the market for mainboards, graphic cards etc. With multiple new sexy product lines launching, Gigabyte HQ sent a team of presenters over to tell the world what is in store …

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Gigabyte is one of the oldest and most famous technology brands, with a huge fan base and reputation for challenging at the top end of the market for mainboards, graphic cards etc.

With multiple new sexy product lines launching, Gigabyte HQ sent a team of presenters over to tell the world what is in store from Gigabyte for 2013.

On a warm spring evening, KitGuru made its way down to the Sanderson Hotel in Central London. Once the production centre for one of the world's leading wallpaper brands, it is now of the world's snazziest hotels and, for one evening, home to Gigabyte’s top tech representatives.

Each of the various products on show will have its own launch into the market – this event was more about showing the breadth of what Gigabyte has to offer in the coming months.

So what was on show?

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Well, for starters, there was ‘Brix' – claiming to be the world's first ‘full tower power micro PC'. It follows the standards that Intel has developed for tiny PCs (think 4×4) and can pack a full Core i7 punch into a unit that's about as wide/long as your average smartphone (although a little deeper). It is expected to launch by the start of May – and KitGuru will be waiting to see Haswell versions on show at Computex.

Keen to assault all of your senses, Gigabyte had the Brix sitting close by the worlds first 3.0 USB desktop speakers. Why USB 3?  Well the increased power delivery along the cable means that you can drive louder sound at the woofing/tweeting end. Apparently. We were given a quick demo, from the back of the large presentation room and we have to say that the audio level was impressive.

Next we spotted a pair of fully-loaded 15” and 17” Gigabyte Notebooks. Ben Berraondo from nVidia spent time on stage explaining how his organisation had worked alongside Gigabyte to produce a high-spec graphics engine to compliment a mobile 1080p screen.

As well as fantastic visuals, did we mention that there’s an inbuilt 5.1 speaker setup. Yep, that's right, Gigabyte's notebook engineers have managed to integrate a subwoofer into the chassis. Nice.

KitGuru hopes that Gigabyte's new ideas will be driven into the market with a sustained effort. These are some good ideas and should be opened to a wider audience – but the notebook market is tough enough to put anyone off.

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Despite all of the cool products, for KitGuru, the highlight of the evening happened when Gigabyte’s Marketing Guru, Eva Chang, swooped in and gave us the scoop on her company’s latest mouse, the Aivia Neon.

We say it's just a mouse, but that's like saying that Jennifer Lawrence is just a woman.

This is actually a Touch-Charging, Air-Presenting, Remote-Control-Substituting Mini Mega Mouse.

It does the whole wireless, playing games thing. It has an integrated laser, which allows you to do all the clever pointing stuff in important meetings. You can switch to ‘air mouse' mode and control presentations/HTPCs etc at the touch of a button and – very cleverly – it has 2 ‘charging contact points' which allow you to put the mouse next to the USB receiver on your laptop and get a 3 hour charge in just 10 minutes. Very cool.

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Last, but by no means least, we got ear to ear with Gigabyte's futuristic, lightweight headphones branded Fly.

At just 79 grams, with a stylish design, they are pretty Fly for an IT guy. They look something like a prop from the move Fifth Element – and we love Fifth Element. Again, this product comes kitted with what you’d expect from high quality trending headphones selling in today's market, such as background noise cancelling and consistent all round audio quality. However, Gigabyte have exceeded this territory adding minimalistic simplicity and ingenuity to their designs. We even prefer Fly headphones to market-favourite brands like ‘Skull-Candy’. When Gigabyte's Eva says that her Fly headphones are ‘sophisticated, lightweight and incredibly comfortable' – sh ain't wrong.

KitGuru's Mikey gets hands on with the Gigabyte girls
KitGuru's Mikey gets hands on with the Gigabyte girls

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KitGuru says: This was an unexpected and, overall, positive event from a company that does not spend much time with the UK press.  Gigabyte have not just piqued our curiosity, it also has our attention for something more than mainboards. It was nice to see an array of affordable technology presented so well. Most of the products are patented/innovative designs and – when wearable – extremely comfortable. Each product also had a nice ‘forward looking' aspect in terms of design and functionality. Can't wait to grill some of this stuff in the KitGuru Lab.

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