Kart Rider: Drift is hitting its closed beta.
Kart Rider: Drift is hitting its closed beta.
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Kart Rider: Drift starts closed beta on Steam and consoles

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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KartRider: Drift is starting a closed beta on Steam and the consoles today as a new free-to-play online cross-platform party racing game.

The game is the next entry in Nexon’s phenomenally successful KartRider racing franchise, which gamers have downloaded more than 380 million times to date.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.