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1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Alana Hagues |Anthony Dickens

You know what would make Tears of the Kingdom much easier? A herd of Epona. In terms of making it harder? How about multiple Ganondorfs? Well, you can have all that and more thanks to an exploit discovered by the TOTK community. (Thanks GamingReinvented!). With the new Zelda Notes companion app (compatible only with the Switch 2 Edition), it's possible to share Autobuild creations by uploading them to the app in-game, which then creates a QR code that you can share online.

1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Alana Hagues |Anthony Dickens

FeaturesOpinionNintendo Switch 2Mario KartGalleryPlus Team NL's best shotsMario Kart World is the biggest Mario Kart to date. The map is huge, with Easter Eggs and little secrets hiding under bridges, atop towering buildings, and in the middle of sprawling oceans. Knockout Tour is the most chaotic concoction of multiplayer I've ever seen. And I'm still knee-deep in unlocking characters (darn, Kamek...). And yet, here I am to talk about photo mode. Bloody photo mode, you're probably thinking.

1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Ollie Reynolds |Anthony Dickens

Digital Foundry has presented its tech review for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet on the Switch 2, with the latest generation receiving a pretty substantial performance update for Nintendo's newest console. All things considered, it seems that this has proven to be a pretty positive outcome for the games (though one that, in this writer's opinion, arrived far too late), with visual quality and frame rates receiving significant boosts.

1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Alana Hagues |Anthony Dickens

Image: Nintendo LifeThe Switch 2 is still going strong over in Japan, and thanks to Famitsu, we have the lowdown on the week's physical and console sales. Unsurprisingly, for the second week in a row, Mario Kart World takes pole position by shifting another 134,900 copies in the week of 9th to 16th June. That's over 120k more than the next closest competitor, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, which sold another 11,217 copies this week. Absolutely nothing to sneeze at.

1 week ago | nintendolife.com | Ollie Reynolds |Anthony Dickens

A new report from Chris Dring's The Game Business highlights a few sales stats for launch games on the recently-released Switch 2. According to the article, "most third-party Switch 2 games posted very low numbers" at launch, with the vast majority of players understandably gravitating towards Mario Kart World. As per data from NielsenIQ, 86% of physical Switch 2 game sales were first-party, including the MK World bundle. If we exclude the bundle, the result would be 48%.