EghtesadOnline: Nintendo Co. is taking the fight to protect its intellectual property to the streets. The Kyoto-based games giant on Friday filed a lawsuit against MariCar Inc., a Tokyo-based company which lets customers dress-up as Nintendo characters like Super Mario and Luigi, sticks them in go-carts and leads them on driven tours through the street of Japan’s capital.

EghtesadOnline: Nintendo Co Ltd's first Mario smartphone title has set a download record but gamers baulked at the one-time cost of unlocking content, prompting investors to push the Japanese game makers' stock to a one-month low.