{"id":366522,"date":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:58:12","slug":"mario-kart-world-wins-best-nintendo-switch-2-game-of-gamescom-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366522\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart World Wins “Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game” Of Gamescom 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mario<\/a>Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, Gamescom gives out awards every year, and while Nintendo didn’t even feature last year<\/a>, it’s back in 2025 with a few wins. These awards call on a “panel of expert gaming jurors” and the community to decide the winners.<\/p>\n

The recent Switch 2 release Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> has taken out “best gameplay” of the show, placing it ahead of other titles like Resident Evil Requiem<\/a><\/strong> and Mario Kart World<\/a>. Although Mario Kart World missed out on the gameplay award, it did win “best Nintendo Switch 2 game” of the event, beating not only Donkey Kong Bananza but also upcoming releases like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apart from this, Pok\u00e9mon was the winner of the “best booth”, Capcom won the award for the “best lineup”, and the anticipated indie title Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/a> won the best trailer.<\/p>\n

You can see the rest of the award winners along with the assessment procedure and criteria on the Gamescom website. To be eligible for an award at Gamescom, a game needs to be present at the event, and developers need to “submit their games for the different categories of the Gamescom award” (there are submission fees, too).<\/p>\n

These are some of the first awards for Nintendo’s Switch 2 exclusives, and we’re still waiting to get our hands on Kirby Air Riders<\/a>, Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a> and Metroid Prime 4.<\/p>\n

How are you finding the new Mario Kart and Donkey Kong games on Switch 2? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source gamescom.global<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo In case you missed it, Gamescom gives out awards every year, and while Nintendo didn’t even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126797,128,123,270,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gamescom","9":"tag-nintendo","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076550236405396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}