The creation of Donkey Kong Bananza started with destruction. “What we were really going for was this gameplay experience that comes from destruction,” Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi says in an interview with The Verge. From that simple premise, Bananza ’s creators have built an entire game about breaking stuff.

In an interview with IGN, Donkey Kong Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi and producer Kenta Motokura ( Super Mario Odyssey ’s director) were asked why Pauline is riding on DK’s back in the game. Their answer was a perfect window into how game development often seems to work at Nintendo,

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Takahashi does clarify that their interest in the console went beyond mere processing power; the game makes use of aspects like mouse controls to direct Pauline during co-op play, and it also comes up during Bananza ’s art-sculpting voxel mode.

As tariffs approached this week, Vietnam struck a deal that undercuts the potential 46% tariff with a 20% one on exports. Before you go celebrating the avoidance of a catastrophe, there are some things to keep in mind.

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week.

Nintendo will discontinue its Switch Game Vouchers scheme, which currently allows Nintendo Switch Online subscribers to buy Switch 1 games at a discount.

A bigger, more powerful Switch means bigger, more intensive games that take more time and money to make. But as development costs skyrocket across the industry, Nintendo seems to have a plan to keep things in control as it transitions into the Switch 2 era.