{"id":49901,"date":"2020-07-21T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2663537"},"modified":"2020-07-21T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:35:00","slug":"mario-kart-tour-finally-works-in-landscape-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/mario-kart-tour-finally-works-in-landscape-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mario Kart Tour\u2019 finally works in landscape mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-title_mark@tp+ bc-gray-1 col-10-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"t-d7@m- t-d4@tp t-d3-b@tl t-d2@d mt-15 mt-25@tp c-gray-3 c-gray-6@m-\">There&#8217;s a new control layout, too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"engadget-article-meta-bar\" class=\"o-meta_bar@tl+          mt-35 mt-20@m-\" data-ylk=\"sec:articlemetabar;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-12-of-12@tp col-5-of-12@tl+ vm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&amp;quality=95&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2020-07%2Fc31c7d60-ca9a-11ea-bf72-aa897c59effe&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=d2e52c544412eff74e01e13a6ea66f005989ddfa\" alt=\"Mario Kart Tour\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-12-of-12@tp col-5-of-12@tl+ vm\">\n<p>When Nintendo introduced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-09-25-mario-kart-tour-android-ios-impressions.html\"><em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;for Android and iPhone&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-09-25-mario-kart-tour-iphone-android.html\">last year<\/a>, it made a couple of questionable decisions, like not offering a multiplayer experience and making the game playable only in portrait mode. Nintendo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-03-02-mario-kart-multiplayer-android-ios.html\">added multiplayer mode<\/a>&nbsp;in March, and today, it made the game playable in landscape.<\/p>\n<p>You can now flip between portrait and landscape while you&rsquo;re playing, and landscape mode offers a new control layout. The changes make a lot of sense and will likely make the game a bit more appealing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FGUwAB-7FSE\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/FGUwAB-7FSE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the most part, we&rsquo;ve found&nbsp;<em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em>&nbsp;to work surprisingly well. Its simplicity makes it an approachable racer for the masses. The tracks are gorgeous, and you still get to hit people with green shells. The biggest drawback is that it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;free-to-start&rdquo; title, which adds the complexity of different currencies, stores and experience point systems. We&rsquo;ll see if Nintendo has any more updates up its sleeve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-09-25-mario-kart-tour-android-ios-impressions.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-09-25-mario-kart-tour-android-ios-impressions.html<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Christine Fisher<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Christine Fisher<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" alt=\"\">There&rsquo;s a new control layout, too. When Nintendo introduced&nbsp;Mario Kart Tour&nbsp;for Android and iPhone&nbsp;last year, it made a couple of questionable decisions, like not offering a multiplayer experience and making the game playable only in portrait mode. Nintendo&nbsp;added multiplayer mode&nbsp;in March, and today, it made the game playable in landscape. You can now flip between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/21\/mario-kart-tour-finally-works-in-landscape-mode\/\">Continue reading <span>&lsquo;Mario Kart Tour&rsquo; finally works in landscape mode<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/mario-kart-tour-finally-works-in-landscape-mode\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Mario Kart Tour\u2019 finally works in landscape mode - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/21\/mario-kart-tour-finally-works-in-landscape-mode\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Mario Kart Tour\u2019 finally works in landscape mode - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&rsquo;s a new control layout, too. 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