Rareware has updated their website with some small bits of information relating to the recently announced Diddy Kong Racing DS.

Yes, Diddy Kong Racing is our first official DS project, and Nintendo are busily promoting it as part of their next wave of big DS offerings for late 2006. Based on the N64 classic but improved and expanded in ways that only the DS allows, you can see the first shot and movie snippet over on NCL’s website if you haven’t already.

A few tantalising DKR DS info-bites to keep you going: eight-player single-card and multi-card WiFi play, touch-screen and microphone compatibility, some familiar faces in newly playable form, remodelled and retextured tracks, customisable vehicles, new modes, weapons and challenges, a little something called TT’s Wish Races where you can create your very own tracks… and it doesn’t end there.

You can download a small snippet of DKR here.