And at the center of that launch is Mario Kart World, an ambitious sequel to one of the best-selling games of all time from perhaps the single most revered game studio in the world: Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (to give Nintendo’s game development arm its full title).

T4w0JjaF0 There’s a lot of newfangled Switch 2 music I love already, but Mario Kart really hits home for me. As a listener of some prog rock out of Japan— Masayoshi Takanaka, I’m speaking to you directly—this feels like some kind of lab-grown earworm that I’d let take up residence in my brain rent-free.