Mario Kart World update makes playing with friends easier, one intermission track less pathetic, and finally allows you to turn that soundtrack up to the only option you need: "Loud"

Mario Kart World screenshot for Switch 2 showing Wario blasting ahead with a host of characters right behind him in a desert biome.

Nintendo has released a new update for Mario Kart World, which features some especially good news for fans of its incredible soundtrack.

Mario Kart World may be somewhat divisive after its price debacle, intermission tracks, and the fact that, after 11 years, no Mario Kart game had a chance in hell to live up to a post-booster course pack Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with its roughly 500 (96) tracks included, but there's one thing that everyone agrees on: that soundtrack absolutely rips. Driving around that open world is an absolute joy thanks to the mountain of classic Mario tunes that received fresh new remixes for the game – and no piece of Mario history was too obscure for a nod.