We knew there was a new Mario Kart coming to Switch 2, but we didn’t expect it to cost this much. After showing off the open-world racing game Mario Kart World on Wednesday during its Switch 2 Nintendo Direct showcase, Nintendo revealed that the game ...

No matter how powerful or sleek a new video game console is, it doesn’t matter if there are no good games to play on it. When the Switch 2 was revealed, we learned that it would feature backwards compatibility with the best Switch games to automatically ...

Derek's love of games came at an early age when his parents first brought home the Nintendo Entertainment System. From then on, countless nights were spent hunting ducks, stomping turtles, exploring far off planets, and combing through dungeons with a ...

Nintendo’s Switch 2 is approaching the end of the first year of its life — and, as with every young console, excitement for the new hardware is held in check by the quest for something to play on it. That’s in addition to (almost) the entire Switch ...

As pre-orders for the Switch 2 went live earlier this week, we started to learn more about many of the launch and post-launch games that will be available for Nintendo’s next big console. And it turns out that a lot of physical Switch 2 games are “Game ...

Nintendo’s data-free, download-unlocking Game Key Cards have proven popular with game publishers, even as they’ve drawn ire from many fans of games stored on physical media. Now, though, a developer on Star Wars Outlaws is saying that a technical ...

There are five big games coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in January 2026, largely thanks to third-party efforts. Most third-party publishers abandoned Nintendo during the Wii U generation, but they came back in force for the Nintendo Switch. The Switch 2 ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a third-generation Texan who has written professionally ...

Whether you’re an early adopter or a prospective buyer, you’ll want all the upcoming Switch 2 games on your radar. While Nintendo’s second-generation handheld has only been available for a short amount of time, we’re now out of the initial launch ...

2025 has been a very big year for the Nintendo Switch, with the release of the Switch 2, a handful of top-rated game launches, and the promise of more exclusives and highly anticipated titles to come. There's nothing quite like being able to play a game on ...

Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final is headed to overtime. After the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to take a 3-2 lead in the third period, Mark Stone kept the Vegas Golden Knights alive