Category: Nintendo

PSA: Select GameCube Games Can Be Played In Widescreen Mode On Switch 2

Here’s how to activate it.

Rejoice, GameCube fans – Nintendo has finally made the dinky little console part of its Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription tier, meaning you can now enjoy select titles on the Switch 2 with bonus quality-of-life features.

Some of these features, including the ability to create restore points and apply a CRT filter, are standard across the whole catalogue. But, just in case you’ve not yet discovered it for yourself, you can also set select games to be played in widescreen mode.

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Guide: Best Nintendo Switch 2 Controllers

Top controllers to level up your Nintendo Switch 2 experience.

The Nintendo Switch 2’s versatility means you’re not stuck with just one way to play — but choosing the right controller can make all the difference.

Whether you’re after a classic Pro-style pad for TV gaming, a compact option for travel, or something tailored to specific genres like fighters or retro titles, there’s already a growing range of excellent controllers built with the Switch 2 in mind.

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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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