Nintendo is suing this go-kart company that lets people race dressed as Super Mario

True to its unforgiving intellectual property policy, Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against a Japanese go-kart company that lets people race each other dressed in costumes of characters from the Super Mario franchise. Eurogamer reports the Nintendo legal team is accusing the company of violating its intellectual property rights – as you can easily gather from the image above. The legendary game-maker announced the lawsuit in a press release (in Japanese) earlier on Wednesday. In the statement, the gaming studio argues MariCar has been unfairly benefiting from Nintendo’s brand. “In this lawsuit, against the defendant company which provides rental services for public road…

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