Category: Nintendo

The first week comes to a close.

It’s now been more than a week since the arrival of the Switch 2, so we’ve taken another quick look at the US eShop “best sellers” chart to see what users are buying as of 14th July 2025.

Mario Kart World once again takes out the top spot and Cyberpunk 2077 has moved up the ladder to second place, with the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom upgrade pack in third. Fantasy Life is also higher on the list and No Man’s Sky has entered the top ten after its Switch 2 Edition update (it’s also on sale right now).

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Every Rune Factory game ranked by you.

Back in 2006, when blending fantasy farming and combat was a dream, Rune Factory felt like a breath of fresh air. Originally born as a spin-off to the more farming-focused Story of Seasons (then known as Harvest Moon) series, Rune Factory has come into its own over the past near-2 decades.

With five main games and three spin-offs, there’s plenty of Rune Factory to go around on Nintendo’s consoles. So, with the recent release of Guardians of Azuma on Switch 1 and Switch 2, we thought it was high time to gather the fantasy farm sims together and see what you lovely readers think of them.

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Or are you an agent of chaos?

I have been wanting to ask a bunch of people this question for a while now, and it seems this is as good a time as any!

It’s a question of gaming habits really, and how you approach doing things within them, that I’m sure holds up a mirror (mode) to our personalities in the ‘real world’ and all that, but I’m not a certified mind…person…so let’s skip getting into anything deep.

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Wait, is there a new console out or something?

Our fingertips are blistered, our eyes are square, and that blasted Mario Kart World music won’t get out of our heads, but we’ve had a full week with Switch 2, and the smiles are still large on our faces.

Expectedly, it’s been another big one at Nintendo Life this week. We got the first official sale numbers on the console from Nintendo, ran down a bunch of games with ‘secret’ Switch 2 performance updates you should check out, and, as if we weren’t all full of news already, Nintendo lifted the lid on Splatoon Raiders, a new Splatoon spin-off coming to Switch 2.

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Go on, tell ’em!

It’s now been just over a week since the Switch 2 landed and Nintendo is already wanting to know how users are finding the experience in a new survey.

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Download it today.

Capcom released Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection on the Switch last September and since then it’s rolled out multiple updates.

The latest patch has now arrived and it comes with a bunch of bug fixes specifically for Clash of Super Heroes and MvC2: New Age of Heroes. Here’s the full details, courtesy of the official patch notes:

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Beating the PS4’s record with the help of Mario Kart.

Following Nintendo’s news about the Switch 2 becoming the “fastest-selling Nintendo hardware” ever in the US, we’ve now got some numbers to go with it, courtesy of Circana’s analyst Mat Piscatella.

According to Piscatella, this is an “all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware in the US”, with “over 1.1 million units sold” (week ending June 7, 2025). The previous record was held by Sony’s PlayStation 4, and the sales calculated here for the Switch 2 exclude My Nintendo Store purchases.

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Your ultimate Mario Kart World resource.

It’s finally time — Mario Kart World is here, along with the Nintendo Switch 2, so that means you’ll need some fuel to keep the engines running. That’s why we’re here with Nintendo Life’s ultimate Mario Kart World Guide.

In this guide, we’ll be covering all of the tips and tricks you need to get yourself over the finishing line, including the Best Karts, all Unlockable Racers, How to Drive on Walls, where to find all of those P Switch Missions and Peach Medallions, and all Control Options.

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Who knew it was a big thing?

We’re not sure how or when including old tech in your brand new controllers became something to be boasting about, especially when it’s Bluetooth technology that’s been around since the early noughties, but that’s where we’re at with the Switch 2’s wake-up function currently.

Now, we all know by now that it’s a bit of a pain that the original Switch Pro Controller, very surprisingly, doesn’t support the ability to wake up Nintendo’s new console, which is just daft, let’s be brutally honest. Nobody wants to fork out the price of a Pro 2 Controller just for this function (not in this economy!).

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A preem dream?

Digital Foundry has posted its tech review for Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on the Switch 2, putting the game through its paces to see just how the main story and Phantom Liberty expansion hold up on Nintendo’s new console.

To start, DF notes that the inclusion of Phantom Liberty itself is pretty remarkable given that developer CD Projekt Red opted to skip PS4 and Xbox One, favouring the beefier hardware seen in current-gen systems. The fact that the Switch 2 is able to handle this at all is commendable, but it should be said that this is where the hardware struggles the most.

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