Category: Nintendo

13-second sprint round Koopa Troopa Beach, anyone?

Leave it to Nintendo to put a mechanic into a game that can be used in lots of ‘unintended’ ways. Then leave it to the typical Nintendo fan to figure out how to mess with it almost immediately.

Yes, just as we are routinely amazed by what players come up with in the likes of Tears of the Kingdom, it’s taken very little time for them to start doing things to Mario’s fancy new rewind feature in Mario Kart World – which, when playing offline, allows you to cycle back through a race by holding down on your D-pad, then resume from where you paused.

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Good form.

Street Fighter 6 launched for the Switch 2 last week and if you’ve been wanting to throw your support behind this particular version of the game, but aren’t confident it will be supported on the same level as other platforms, we’ve got some good news.

As highlighted by EventHubs, the Nintendo version has been declared tournament legal, which means the Switch 2 version is now officially acceptable for online and offline tournaments according to Capcom’s Pro Tour website. This update originally came into effect on 9th June, just days after the release of the game on Nintendo’s hybrid platform.

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Download them today.

Following the release of Switch 2 editions of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild last week, Nintendo has now rolled out a few post-launch updates.

These will be applied to all versions and include some fixes tied to improving the overall gameplay experience as well as some revisions to specific texts. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo’s official support page:

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Breaking records in less than a week.

Earlier this week, Nintendo shared its first official sales data for the Switch 2 – confirming the new hybrid system had sold “over 3.5 million units worldwide” in just the first four days, making it the highest global sales level for any Nintendo hardware within this amount of time.

Now, in an update, the video game firm has revealed this new device is also the “fastest-selling Nintendo hardware in the US” in four days. This was reported by IGN – with the outlet also told “Switch 2 sales in all regions were approximately twice those of the Nintendo Switch 1 across both consoles’ first four days on the market”. Nintendo has not provided specific sales figures for this region.

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Includes all DLC and bonus content.

Nippon Ichi Software has announced that it will be launching Disgaea 7 Complete in Autumn 2025 on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Originally released in 2023 as Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless, a Complete Edition launched exclusively in Japan the following year on Switch, PS5, and PS4. A Western release wasn’t confirmed at the time, and now it seems that this is exclusive to the Switch 2.

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A proper scenery chewer.

Hooray! Splatoon 3 is one of our favourite Switch games and today it got a snazzy (free) Switch 2 upgrade which, as we reported earlier, takes advantage of the extra power of Nintendo’s new machine.

But according to the patch notes, when players are splatting on Switch 1, they’ll notice some downgrades compared to how it used to be.

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Splat-tastic.

In case you missed it, Splatoon 3 has been updated to version 10.0.0, bringing with it a whole bunch of new content, but also improving the game’s visuals and performance for those playing on Switch 2.

But how has it been improved, exactly? Well, the above video should clear things up quite nicely for you. We’re mainly looking at bumps in resolution and frame rate, and this is perhaps most obvious within the Splatsville hub area, which notably at a stable, albeit sluggish 30fps on the Switch.

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Cross-platform saves are now available.

Just in time for the arrival of the Switch 2, the award-winning and highly addictive roguelike bullet shooter Vampire Survivors has received a Nintendo platform update.

Most notably, it adds the cross-save feature to the Switch version – meaning you can now play your original or preferred save file across all the platforms you own the game on. We’ve installed this update and have also played it on the Switch 2.

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The new G-Mode and Red Art campaign is now live.

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Retro game collections are all the rage nowadays and following in the footsteps of classic mascots like Gex and Bubsy are now Joe and Mac.

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Updates for Switch 2 and much more.

Earlier this week, Splatoon fans got quite a surprise when Nintendo unveiled Splatoon Raiders – a new spin-off, exclusive to Switch 2.

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