The next Mario Kart game for the Switch involves an actual vehicle zooming around your living room
Mario Kart Live turns your house into a track. (Nintendo/)Nintendo could slap some cheap Mario Kart branding on just about anything and make millions of dollars with it. It’s a beloved franchise that has been entertaining gamers and occasionally ruining friendships with well-timed red shells since 1992. For the game’s latest installment, however, Nintendo has taken a technological leap and turned its adorable carting game into a full-on augmented reality experience. And so far, it looks very promising.The upcoming $99 Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit ships with a physical toy cart—you can choose either Mario or Luigi—that connects wirelessly to a Switch console. Each vehicle has a rechargeable battery inside and a camera mounted to the top. A series of physical gates that come in the box allow players to lay out a track on the floor.During the race, the camera pumps a live feed of the video to the...