GKART

Also known as QQ Speed, Garena Speed Drifters, Speed Drifters

GKART, also known as QQ Speed or Speed Drifters, Zing Speed, is a massively multiplayer online kart racing game developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent Games and Garena. The game was originally released in China as QQ Speed in 2010 and gained enormous popularity in China, with a record number of 2 million players online at the same time in 2011. The game was heavily inspired by Nintendo's Mario Kart franchise.

Game data

Released: 2025-06-05
User rating: 4.11 / 5
Genres: Racing, Action
Platforms: Nintendo Switch

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: video game
Genre: racing video game
Publisher: Garena
Developer: TiMi Studio Group
Platform: Android
Game mode: multiplayer video game
Game engine: Gamebryo
Official website: speed.qq.com

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publication date: 2010-10-01
input device: touchscreen
software version identifier: Beta46 Ver14216—Beta46 Ver14235
operating system: iOS
distributed by: Q368215
Commons category: QQSpeed

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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections

Contents

Gameplay
Development
Reception
References
External links

Garena introduced GKART to 13 countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and the United States in 2011. GKART was selected into the World Cyber Games (WCG) at Singapore and China the same year. The game was shut down on 31 March 2012, before it was later re-released. The mobile game version was launched on 29 December 2017 as QQ Speed: Mobile in China, on 16 January 2019 as Garena Speed Drifters for markets outside mainland China, and on 18 December 18, 2018 as Zing Speed in Vietnam.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GKART” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.