Kart Rider open beta (finally) begins in North America
For those not in the know, Kart Rider is a cel-shaded racing game heavily (and we mean heavily) inspired by Nintendo's Mario Kart series. Players purchase upgrades and cosmetic features for their characters, and go online to race and compete. The Kart Rider client is completely free, and the developers, Nexon, earn all their revenue through virtual item purchases on the official site. The revenue model must be working for them, as Kart Rider is one of the most profitable games in South Korea, directly competing with Blizzard's mega-hit Starcraft. We'll have to wait and see if the game can make the same kind of impact in the States.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kn1ves @ Oct 4th 2007 6:00AM
http://drift.ijji.com
Drift City is better IMO
scizor34 @ Nov 1st 2007 6:01PM
cant beat kart rider though. drift city is more single play than multi.
check out kartextreme.net
theres already a big kart rider community with guides and tips
Erron Kelly @ Oct 4th 2007 6:02AM
It's actually pretty fun.
Alenônimo @ Oct 4th 2007 8:21AM
Mario Kart + Bomberman = Kart Rider
Ringmaster @ Oct 4th 2007 10:11AM
WARNING: Trojan Horse Downloader Inside Game.
kongkoro @ Oct 4th 2007 2:52PM
How did you know that there is a trojan horse inside this game?
blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Oct 4th 2007 11:16AM
korans sure like their microtransactions and dogs
Saria the Cat @ Oct 4th 2007 11:42AM
This brings back loving memories of Gunbound. Oh, Korea. You and your free games full of both Korean Engrish-speaking users and American Engrish-speaking users.
Gunbound was seriously the sh*t back in the day.
rockintom @ Oct 4th 2007 11:50AM
Ah yes, gunbound was fun times, but then ijji went and messed it up. It's even buggier now than it used to be, if that is even possible.
Paul @ Oct 4th 2007 11:50AM
I've been meaning to try this game! I saw lots of people playing it when I was in Korea this summer.
lionzub @ Oct 4th 2007 12:40PM
During my first run after installing my NOD32 threat detector gave a couple warnings over a Thermeida virus or something. I terminated and the game won't run. I would highly recommend that people don't install this game... why risk having something on your computer that acts like a trojan/virus.
zhine @ Oct 4th 2007 12:52PM
@Ringmaster: Wait, is the trojan horse inside the download for Kart Rider or is it in the link that the first guy posted?
Kujan @ Oct 4th 2007 2:15PM
@zhine
The game, after install, and on first run, downloads some more files. I think that's what Ringmaster was talking about.
Ringmaster @ Oct 4th 2007 3:20PM
Zhine, in the download. Yes Kujan, it was.
Ringmaster @ Oct 4th 2007 3:21PM
Konkoro, AVG Free
Ringmaster @ Oct 4th 2007 3:22PM
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Ringmaster @ Oct 4th 2007 3:26PM
Sorry for the triple post, just forgot Konkoro's response, then the period
Ringmaster @ Oct 4th 2007 3:28PM
Sorry.
t_m @ Oct 5th 2007 6:50AM
i really fany trying some of the ijji games... but they seem like they'd be hard for newbies to break into, what with all the established players, paid upgrades and glitches/exploits/tactics.
t_m @ Oct 5th 2007 6:50AM
i really fancy trying some of the ijji games... but they seem like they'd be hard for newbies to break into, what with all the established players, paid upgrades and glitches/exploits/tactics.
t_m @ Oct 5th 2007 11:14AM
sorry for the double post.
FYI (and with no comment either for or against):
"Once you install a game like MapleStory that uses Gameguard, gameguard installs itself into the the system permanently, making it a rootkit. What it does is that it scans all incoming memory and if you try to attach a hack or anything it doesn't like, since its inside the system, it has control and shuts your computer down. Uninstalling it DOES NOT REMOVE IT. It will stay there until a reformat.
Technically, its a bad high risk virus simply because of what it does but it doesn't do anything that could severly hurt your computer."
KartRider has the same thing.. thats whats causing the virus warnings.
t_m @ Oct 5th 2007 11:20AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameGuard