Nostalgia Country is an Ancient Ruin in Donkey Kong Bananza that takes you back to the world of Donkey Kong Country. This Ancient Ruin switches your perspective from a 3D world to a sidescrolling platformer, but as it’s still Donkey Kong Bananza, there are three Banandium Gems for you to collect. One of the Banandium Gems is particularly difficult to find, but luckily it can be found as soon as...

There are loads of entertaining new titles coming to Game Pass this month, but that also means a few games are being removed from the catalogue. If you have an Xbox or PC, you have two weeks to dive in. Among the departing slate is a Capcom hidden gem: Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. According to us (the authorities!), the single-player action-strategy game based on Japanese folklore feels like it...

If 2023’s pretty good RoboCop first-person shooter RoboCop: Rogue City left you wanting more, developer Teyon’s follow-up — part expansion, part sequel — offers exactly that… and little more. While it’s still great fun to step into the exoskeleton of Detroit’s cyborg policeman and squish bad guys’ heads with Robo’s Auto-9 handcannon, Unfinished Business does too little to differentiate itself from the previous game. RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business is set...

Hoyoverse just wrapped up the Genshin Impact version 5.8 preview livestream, showing off all sorts of details about the upcoming patch. Most importantly, there were several codes that award Primogems and other rewards shown during the stream. Our Genshin Impact 5.8 livestream code list provides you with the three stream codes for rewards and explains how to redeem them. The big summer patch is upon us, with the usual yearly...

Banandium Gems are golden bananas scattered around the layers in Donkey Kong Bananza. You’ll find dozens of these collectibles in the Lagoon Layer. The Lagoon Layer is home to, well, a lagoon, and to the wise Kong Elder. Some of the Banandium Gems in the this layer will require you to adjust the water level of the lagoon and utilize your Kong Bananza powers. The Lagoon Layer is said to...

Skills change the way you play Donkey Kong Bananza. As you collect Banandium Gems, you’ll earn skill points that can be used to upgrade Donkey Kong’s stats or unlock new skills. Most skills can also be upgraded multiple times, which will provide you with even more stats and strengthen your abilities even further. Not only will skills make your fights a little easier, they’ll make it easier for you to...

Donkey Kong Bananza is finally here, as is some clarity about where it might fit into the Donkey Kong timeline and why Nintendo’s original damsel-in-distress Pauline appears as a much younger version of herself. But questions still abound about how, you know, the events of 1981’s Donkey Kong fit into all this. And while Bananza’s connection to recent Mario games like Super Mario Odyssey are made clear, there are still...

He’s the leader of the bunch; you know him well. He’s finally back to show some tail — in Donkey Kong Bananza, that is. If you’re playing the newest Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, perhaps your eyes have been drawn to a particular area of the brown gorilla’s anatomy. It’s kind of hard to avoid, given that you play Bananza from a third-person perspective where Donkey Kong’s back is constantly facing...

Here it is: The first 3D Nintendo platform game conceived and produced after The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild did the unthinkable and outsold that generation’s marquee Mario game, Super Mario Odyssey. The first since Breath of the Wild ensured it was Zelda, not Mario, that defined the Switch. The first since Breath of the Wild upended everyone’s expectations, not just of the Zelda series, but of the...

Donkey Kong Bananaza is a classic Nintendo game through and through. It’s a throwback to the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and Wario World, pulled from an era of 3D platformers where Nintendo was reaching new creative heights in the GameCube era. But it’s also vintage Nintendo thanks to its co-op gameplay. Like Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser’s Fury, and even The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker before it, Donkey Kong...