Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Has Sold 10 Million Copies Since Launch

Whoa!

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled has sold a whopping 10 million copies since its launch back in 2019, Activision has announced.

The game, which serves as a complete remake of the 1999 PS1 original, was developed by Beenox, a studio that has since been gobbled up by the Call of Duty conveyor belt. That said, Nitro-Fueled was well-received upon launch for its faithfulness to the original, but also got quite a bit of heat for its micro-transactions.

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Nintendo Supposedly Investigating Possible “Swollen Battery” Issue With Switch 2

Users have noticed the system’s back panel “slightly bulging”.

Some would argue the real tests can only begin when a product is in the hands of consumers and while Nintendo likely ran every scenario it possibly could with the Switch 2 during in-house tests, certain issues are reportedly surfacing now that it’s out in the wild.

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Talking Point: How Are You Finding Mario Kart’s Open World?

Free to roam.

Many of us have just wrapped up our second weekend with Mario Kart World, and by this point you’ve probably seen most of the Grand Prix mode and had your rear end handed to you various times in Knockout Tour (I swear, there’s no middle ground with that one – I either do really well or go out in the first two laps!), and are starting to explore Free Roam mode a little more.

‘Open-world Mario Kart’ sounded like a tasty drive-thru feast and while all of us here at Nintendo Life are love with the world itself and the way the tracks are seamlessly integrated across the regions, we’re up and down like a suspension bridge on whether the open-world experience is as fun as it could be.

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Review: Gex Trilogy (Switch) – A Happy Throwback That Couldn’t Be Any More ’90s

Enter the ’90s.

Note. Gex Trilogy isn’t playable on Switch 2 via backwards compatibility at the time of writing, although a patch has been submitted to Nintendo for review, according to Limited Run. We’ll update this note when we hear more.


Dimitris Giannakis’s Carbon Engine is back on behalf of Limited Run Games, and, despite some previously reported bugs, it fairly accurately brings vintage games to new hardware.

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‘Rumble Has Been Turned Off Due To Prolonged Use’? Don’t Worry, Your Switch 2 Joy-Con Probably Aren’t Broken

It’s a feature.

It seems some eager players have been a little mystified as to the reasons behind a message that’s been popping up on their Switch 2 screens during play as of late.

Yep, over on Reddit (thanks GoNintendo) a handful of gamers have been rocking up to report that an alert related to the console’s HD Rumble has been popping onto their lovely big LCD screens, as you can see in the post below this very paragraph. Of course, with it being a new console, folk have quickly become concerned that there’s something up with their Joy-Con and/or Pro 2 Controllers.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl – Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast)

The concept of love.

Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl.

Before we get cracking, let’s see how things panned out last time, hm? We looked at Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition for the 3DS. North America and Europe joined forces on this one, and together, they managed to bag an impressive 72% of the vote. Well done, indeed.

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LEGO Fortnite’s Switch 2 Release Will Be Followed By A New Game Mode Next Week

Get ready to “power-up” in Expeditions.

The free-to-play title LEGO Fortnite has gone down quite well with LEGO and Fortnite fans, and Epic Games continues to enhance the experience with all sorts of new updates.

The latest reveal is a new teaser for LEGO Expeditions. Epic has released a trailer describing how players will suit up, squad up and power up next week on 18th June, but beyond this, nothing else has been revealed just yet.

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Switch 2’s Best-Selling eShop Games So Far

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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