In Donkey Kong Bananza, the Canyon Layer is the third layer that you’ll crash land onto. It’s full of your crystalline friends, but now some of them are shaped like giraffes! The Canyon Layer is home to warehouses full of Banandium Gems and smokestacks towering into the sky.
Remedy has big plans for its struggling shooter, but turning things around at this point seems like a faint hope.
Crossfire: Legion had promise, but what it didn't have is players.
The Hilltop Layer is the second full layer you’ll visit in Donkey Kong Bananza. This area is much smaller than the previous Lagoon Layer, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tons of Banandium Gems to collect. The Hilltop Layer is filled with nice crystal-like creatures who are
It's been five years since The Sands of Time Remake was announced, and four since Splinter Cell. We still haven't seen hide nor hair of either.
The Coldplay concert kiss cam incident is the most viral moment of 2025. It’s also a video game now, sort of. Coldplay Canoodlers was thought up by Jonathan Mann, best known as the guy who has uploaded a new song to YouTube every day for over a decade (Remember “ GTA: This Is
In Donkey Kong Bananza, you can scan amiibo to add an extra flavor to DK and Pauline’s journey into the underground. The game supports new Donkey Kong and older amiibo figures that, once scanned, give you special clothes and powered-up objects to help you smash through the
Hey ya’ll! Here we are at the end of yet another weekend on this little blue ball circling a vast fiery orb of death. I’m particularly sensitive to that orb because I chose not to buy a new air conditioner this summer. Brilliant, I know. Read more...
I was called a “regurgitated cum bubble” within the first minutes of booting up Gunzilla’s free-to-play battle royale shooter, Off The Grid. And the crass insult wasn’t shouted by another player, but by an obnoxious soldier dude who is the game’s announcer. Things only got
Hooray for Hollywood (just not on Xbox).
In nearly every cozy game under the sun that I’ve spent far too long playing, fishing is the one mechanic that’s omnipresent yet differs just enough between games to prove annoying. It’s also usually the one minigame that makes me pull out my beard in frustration. In Rune
Sho "BlackRay" Hasegawa has been released by CAG Osaka.
How many layers are in Donkey Kong Bananza is a slightly more complex subject than you might initially think. Every layer is structured differently, some with multiple sublayers, and all with varying numbers of Banandium Gems to grab. The way Bananza is structured means that
It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? Over the last couple of days, the internet has swarmed around a mortifying moment during a Coldplay concert when the event crew zoomed in on the audience the hopes of finding a cute couple that could inspire cheers from the crowd.
DC’s latest attempt at a Superman movie actually captures the heroic spirit of its lead , and it shows in moments big and small. Most of the best segments in the film weren’t about Clark Kent doing sick shit with his superpowers, they were him showing kindness, determination,
Many players will likely spend a good deal of Donkey Kong Bananza’s opening testing just how far the Switch 2 game will let them go. Much of Bananza is made up of destructible voxels, and DK can crumble this merry world with the abandon of a toddler playing with its food.
Shareholder meetings are usually pretty boring affairs, but in video games, you sometimes get players themselves showing up. They buy a piece of the company, and instead of complaining online like everyone else, they get to ask questions directly to the CEO’s face once a year.
There’s another new trailer! Look, I’m not going to pretend at professional distance here: I am extremely excited about next month’s new TV series, Alien: Earth. And each new trailer gives me more reason to be. But this isn’t because I think the Alien franchise is some surefire
James Gunn’s Superman nails a lot of elements — its earnest take on the Man of Steel, a scene-stealing Jimmy Olsen as an unexpected heartthrob, and a fiercely driven Lois Lane. But just as worthy of praise is Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor, who captures the character’s signature
The Sims 4‘s latest expansion pack, Enchanted By Nature, launched earlier this month, adding fairy-Sims, magical ailments, and charming new clothing and furniture items to the game. As a lifelong fan of The Sims franchise, I decided to dive back into the game after a few months
While I spend more time than I’d like to admit watching Dropout’s stable of excellent, improv-heavy comedy shows, last year’s Gastronauts is one of the few Dropout programs I haven’t yet checked out. After the new trailer for Gastronauts season 2 made my gut bust with laughter
My exposure to Labubu, a series of little rabbit-like monster dolls dressed up in various outfits that people wear as accessories, began with an odd viral TikTok audio in which Lilz Bullz Marbella claims to have a one-of-a-kind 24-karat gold doll . This sound was attached to
But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."
In the east coast heat of the summer of 2013, I stood outside of a particular McDonald’s in Forest Hills, NY, in a dazed state of shock. I had just come out to some friends—I actually said it out loud, but all that had to wait because at the same time, I had also just learned
The perfect Portal concoction for the latest iteration of the gear grind.
These buds simply aren't good enough for PC gaming, but the competition is.
Where's your head (and mic) at?
Aether & Iron is a "decopunk" RPG with characters and factions inspired by New York's actual history.
The goat is making a comeback.
Others may disagree, but I’ve decided Equilibrious Beast is the hardest boss fight in Elden Ring Nightreign . He’s fast, has a bunch of different attacks, and uses lots of hard-to-block magic. In addition to dodging incoming threats, you also have to manage a madness meter or
The Edge of Fate isn't solely responsible for low player turnout. The exodus started much earlier than that.
12 years after Xbox introduced the Xbox One as a console that would be your entertainment media hub, Xbox is no longer selling TV shows or movies. The news came with little fanfare or notice, though some people who regularly check Xbox’s movie and TV section saw a bunch of
Icarus: Great Hunts Campaigns, the big DLC revealed in June at the PC Gaming Show, is out now.
We all need more buttons and dials, of this I am certain.
If the cyberpunk genre was meant to warn us away from a capitalistic, dystopian future hellscape, what purpose does it serve when that hellscape is already here? Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably one of the most mainstream contemporary examples of the genre from which it takes its
It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
Donkey Kong Bananza is a 3D action platformer where you can dig holes, build bridges, and experiment in other ways as you burrow through various whimsical worlds on your way toward the planet core. Nintendo was so happy with its deformation tech that it decided to spin it off
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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
"Even if you're just a pure tool user you're going to find that the gains to utilising those tools are very, very high."
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
Turns out all we needed to accept robots as people is a pair of shorts and a shirt.
One of the best aspects of any cozy farming game, even one with JRPG combat and adventuring elements, isn’t the gradual progression of building up a settlement or farmland as you rake in the cash, but the friends you make along the way. Right? No, just me? Well, I enjoy
Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. Director Dean BeBlois’ live-action remake of his 2010 DreamWorks Animation film How to Train Your Dragon (co-directed
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
FromSoftware has always been a prolific studio , pumping out new spin-offs and sequels at blistering rate without slipping on quality. So, it wouldn’t be a complete shock to hear the studio’s next unannounced game is closer than we think. According to one new report, it’s
I think I can hear my PSU crying from here.
Legends take time to cook.
