A recent firmware update made the carts compatible.
Nintendo cracked down on piracy in all sorts of ways during the Switch generation and it’s now reportedly taking action on the Switch 2.
As highlighted by Kotaku, Nintendo is seemingly banning anyone found using the MIG Switch cartridge on its new hybrid system.
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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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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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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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Does World make the podium?
Updated with Mario Kart World. Remember, this dynamic ranking is governed by every entry’s User Rating on our database and is subject to real-time change, even now. Don’t agree with the order? Feel free to get rating your game collection and potentially influence the ranking below. Enjoy!
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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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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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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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