The Forest Layer is the sixth layer in Donkey Kong Bananza and its home to the beloved flying ostriches and dreadful poison. Of course, the Forest Layer is also full of Banandium Gems. To find all of the bananas on this layer, you’ll need to make use of your ostrich powers and cleanse the forest of its poison. Some of the bananas can be fairly easy to find, but most...
Bramble Country is a challenge level in Donkey Kong Bananza that continues one of the game’s patterns: Sticking one Banandium Gem in an easy-to-miss but hard-to-reach spot. This one is slightly more devious than the other challenge levels, though. You can’t use your hand slap sonar to show where it’s hiding. In this Donkey Kong Bananza guide, we’ll show you where to find all bananas in Bramble Country. Bramble Country...
Ancient Bananza Powers allow you to transform into different animals in Donkey Kong Bananza and turn their abilities into your own. Whether you want to punch through walls, fly through the skies, or run on water, Ancient Bananza Powers can do it all. However, these transformations aren’t available from the get-go. They can only be unlocked by visiting the elders scattered across the layers. Each elder is associated with a...
After three years of silence, Rockstar Games surprised the world with an update for Red Dead Online, the MMO-lite spinoff of its acclaimed open-world western. Strange Tales of the West is a humble affair compared to previous updates, which introduced things like new classes, but players are saddling up and joining posses all the same. And it’s upon this return that some players are being reminded of a disheartening reality:...
As reported by Game Developer, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has bought its own independence from former owner Sumo Digital, but laid off an undisclosed number of employees in the process, bringing its total headcount to 55.The management buyout was done with the help of venture capital funding, and comes after Sumo Digital announced a shift away from developing its own games to co-development, or...
In Donkey Kong Bananza, you’ll hit The Junction after completing the Forest or Freezer Layer. It’s another small layer, similar to The Divide, but it still has some Banandium Gems that can be tricky to find if you’re not paying attention. The Junction is mostly just a small pathway forward and it’ll initially be covered with void goo. As you clean it up, more bananas and areas will reveal themselves,...
The co-founder of Valve Corporation, Gabe Newell, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev. The ocean-going billionaire shares his thoughts on everything from his daily routine to startup culture, but one of the largest themes is AI: and the "funny situation" Newell foresees whereby people who can't code become "more effective developers of value" than those who've been coding for a decade.In a new short, Newell returns to AI...
Elle Fanning is no stranger to sci-fi or aliens in general, but this time it looks like she’s bitten off more than she can chew as the Weyland-Yutani android Thia in the upcoming Predator: Badlands. The last live-action Predator film, Prey, took us far into the past, with Comanche warrior Naru (Amber Midthunder) discovering a deadly alien threat to her people. By using a setting that was far from what most...
The Abiotic Factor 1.0 update is almost here, finally bringing the Half-Life-inspired survival crafting adventure to its first version complete milestone. As far as early access games go, it's been a brief and fairly consistent journey—the rare, smooth roadmap rollout since Abiotic Factor's early release in May 2024.Over the last year, developer Deep Field Games has launched a steady feed of updates to tide its ethically questionable scientists over in...
The summer before NetEase released Marvel Rivals, the wildly popular 6v6 hero shooter, a Marvel editor reached out to writer Paul Allor, asking if they might be interested in writing a little comic series to accompany the game called Marvel Rivals Infinity Comic. This wasn’t Allor’s first time writing superheroes over their 14-year career, though as they tell it, it probably wasn’t the quality of their work that brought Marvel...