Best Buy is offering a $10 gift card for Mario Kart 8 release date fans who preorder through their site, the International Digital Times reports.

"If you preorder Mario Kart 8 from Best Buy, you'll get a $10 gift card. Pretty good deal," the site writes.

"Here's the long of it: you have to claim it pretty much right away (by June 7), and it is nominally to be used for gas. Just because that's a fun idea. But you can actually use it for anything. It sounds like it will be a semi-pain, but hey, ten bucks off a brand new Nintendo game. Trust me when I say that doesn't happen very often."

Nintendo has revealed that it will add two new characters to Mario Kart 8's release date version.

"New heavyweight driver Pink Gold Peach glows with a golden light and makes a shiny counterpart to Metal Mario, while the new Baby Rosalina shows up for a play date with other Baby characters," the company said in an announcement," Breathe Cast reports.

"As in past Mario Kart games, players can again choose to play as their Mii characters, rounding out the field of racers to a total of 30."

Mario Kart 8's release date gameplay may rival the Playstation 4 and Xbox One systems, allowing them to "re-enter" the next-generation console battle, Cinema blend reports.

"For the entirety of 2013 Nintendo was like a giant who slept in a cave while his home town got ravaged by the likes of Sony pillagers and Xbox ruffians. The Big 'N' had subsided from the spotlight, hoping that software support and name brand would carry them through most of 2013, and for the Wii U that just didn't work," the website writes.

"Nintendo's head honcho, Satoru Iwata, has climbed off his throne and strapped on his gauntlets, equipped his greaves, padded on a breastplate and pulled up his flameproof jockstrap, as 2014 will be the year that Nintendo re-enters the console war with a vengeance, and they're doing so starting with Mario Kart 8."