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This week in racing game news:

'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' is getting a surprise new DLC

During this week's Nintendo Direct, an online presentation series that Nintendo puts on a few times a year, we got some very surprising "Mario Kart" news. In lieu of an "MK 9" announcement, the sequel that fans have been clamoring for since the 2014 release of "Mario Kart 8" on Wii U, we learned that the company will instead be releasing a huge DLC pack for "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" on the Switch. While it's not the "Mario Kart 9" reveal fans have been waiting for, it's arguably just as good. The new DLC is called the Booster Course Pass and will add an additional 48 remastered tracks to the already stacked "MK 8 Deluxe" roster, doubling the overall amount of tracks in the game. The new tracks will be rolled out slowly over the next two years, with 6 "waves" of content drops including 8 new tracks each. The first 8 tracks are set to drop on March 18 and will include the following classic courses: