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You'll be able to play your Nintendo Switch games on its successor


The Nintendo Switch 2 will have backwards compatibility, the company has announced.

Nintendo explained that it's making Switch Online available on the upcoming console, because it thinks it's important for the company's future to "carry over the good relationship" it has built with its more than 100 million annual playing users to the new device. Canadian authorities arrested a 26-year-old man responsible for a series of corporate cyberattacks targeting cloud data analysis company Snowflake. Meta had to pull the plug on a nuclear-powered data center project after a rare bee species was discovered on the land where it was going to be built, according to the Financial Times.

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