After nearly two decades of Mario Kart dominating the kart racing genre, ModNation Racers for the PS3 is poised to knock it off its throne, showing gamers that there is more to kart racing than Italian plumbers and blue shells. Not satisfied to merely release a very good console kart racer, Sony is also releasing a PSP version of ModNation Racers later this month. Much like the PSP version of LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers PSP is largely the same game on a smaller scale, meaning that it’s certainly an entertaining and competent kart racer. However, in the transition to a handheld, ModNation lost some of its charm, making it not quite the breath of fresh air that the console version appears to be.