But Mario didn't even have a name in that 1981 debut – it was the then-villainous Donkey Kong who was the star of the show. Yet Nintendo has always seemed content to let DK play, er, second banana in ...

After months of speculation, Nintendo confirmed the Donkey Kong Bananza development team is the same one that made Super Mario Odyssey. The upcoming 3D platformer is the long-awaited next mainline ...

Nintendo has kept quiet about exactly who made Donkey Kong Bananza, one of the flagship games for the Nintendo Switch 2. Many fans have speculated that it was made by the same development team behind ...

When you think about it, it must kind of suck to be Donkey Kong. Despite introducing the modern world to Nintendo games with 1981’s arcade classic, the great ape was quickly sidelined in favor of ...

Donkey Kong Bananza is the first major post-launch release for the Switch 2, and there’s been plenty of speculation about which internal team at Nintendo is behind it. After attending an early preview ...

There have been tons of Donkey Kong games released over the years, so we've ranked the main ones to find out which was the ...

Donkey Kong is shaping up to be Super Mario Odyssey's spiritual successor. It seems like Donkey Kong Bananza for Nintendo Switch 2 is actually the spiritual successor of Super Mario Odyssey. Just ...

But like Mario and even the pink puffball Kirby, he’s able to adapt to any genre he’s thrust in. While most of the titles that bear his name are platformers, DK has headlined everything from racers to ...

TL;DR: Nintendo's Donkey Kong Bananza, developed by the Super Mario Odyssey team, features innovative voxel-based destructible environments, enhancing gameplay with detailed terrain interaction. The ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...

Matthew Wilkinson is Movie/TV Features Staff Writer at Game Rant with over a decade of experience writing for various publications. Throughout his career he has covered some of the biggest events in ...

When we crossed through the portal into Universal Epic Universe’s Super Nintendo World and then jumped into Super Mario’s iconic green Warp Pipe, went up an escalator, and emerged into Super Mario ...