Gavin Lane

1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Gavin Lane |Anthony Dickens

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.

1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Gavin Lane |Anthony Dickens

While Nintendo itself put out an official Switch 2 Camera alongside the new console, it's Hori's officially licensed — and we have to say adorable — Piranha Plant camera which attracted the most attention. A little USB-C webcam fashioned after the enemies from the Super Mario series, it's certainly a lot more fun-looking that Nintendo's old-school radio mic-looking one. However, the cuteness comes with caveats when it comes to image quality.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Gavin Lane

1 day agoHere's what one of Sony's top bosses had to say. Microsoft is shaking things up with its new strategy of launching its own games on rival platforms, and now Sony has reacted to Microsoft's latest moves. As part of an investor fireside chat, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino was …

2 weeks ago | nintendolife.com | Gavin Lane |Anthony Dickens

Editor's Note: Nintendo declined to send out Switch 2 review units to media in the weeks prior to its 5th June launch, but having now spent a full week living with the system, we can deliver our final verdict. Rumours of a successor to the Nintendo Switch started doing the rounds early in that console's life. While the Switch Lite and the OLED Model tweaked the base offering, it's taken over eight years for the 'proper' follow-up to emerge.

2 weeks ago | nintendolife.com | Gavin Lane |Anthony Dickens

FeaturesNintendoNintendo Switch 2Polls2 the maxOne pleasant surprise of the Switch 2 launch, beyond the advertised upgrades — free and otherwise — to various Switch games, has been seeing how some Switch games that once struggled to hit their frame rate targets have gotten a nice boost on the new console.