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Forbes
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Donkey Kong Bananza' Review: Have A Banana
This is easily one of the best platformers of recent years. The latest entry in the Donkey Kong series is a banana-fuelled blast, and may be one of the best platforming games in recent years. The main setup of the game has you control the titular Donkey Kong as he tackles the evil Void Company while venturing to the core of the planet to make things right. Developed by the team behind Super Mario Odyssey, Donkey Kong Bananza has a lot of functional and structural carry-overs from that game. Each new level, as you venture deeper into the planet, has distinct biomes and is effectively a mini-open-world layout. Now, in Super Mario Odyssey, you collected coins and moons to progress, whereas in Donkey Kong Bananza, it's more open-ended with additional currencies to choose from. The skill upgrades are as numerous as they are helpful. The currencies are also more functional here and are spread out over different areas of gameplay. The gold you mine goes into buying items, whereas fossils give you different clothes (which also afford differing attributes). The 'moons' in this instance are massive Banandium Gems, and these are used to upgrade a large and varied skill tree. This is because this game is as much about exploration as it is about destruction. The last game that nailed this kind of setup was the original Dragon Quest Builders, which still holds a fond place in my heart to this day. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Anyway, destroying an area in a fit of monkey rage is deeply satisfying and also gives you the currency for all the aforementioned upgrades. You also have fun challenges dotted around each area and tasks you have to complete in order to thwart the evil Void Company. Even as you tunnel underground, the camera keeps up fine. Boss fights are also ingenious and again help you satiate your banana-induced monkey rage. The game is also entirely massive and has a huge amount of replay value, as you go back and search for items and more Banandium Gems, so you definitely get your money's worth on this one. There's also a great musical component to the game, as Donkey Kong and Pauline sing songs, which makes for a lovely and characterful experience. As this is a new Switch 2 game, it does look lovely and runs very smoothly considering all the deformable terrain at work here. Controls are also very fluid, and the camera handles all the crazy bespoke tunnelling you do pretty well. Overall, Donkey Kong Bananza does what Super Mario Odyssey did before it: offer one of the best platforming games available on a new system. The fact that the bulk of the game is about wanton joyous destruction is also another big bonus. So, if you want to tunnel to the center of the planet and destroy most of it along the way, Donkey Kong Bananza is your kind of platformer. Donkey Kong Bananza Platform: Nintendo Switch 2 Developer: Nintendo EPD Publisher: Nintendo Released: 17th July 2025 Price: $69.99 Score: 9/10 Disclosure: Nintendo sent me a copy of this game for the purposes of this review. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
Washington Post
18 hours ago
- Science
- Washington Post
Try these hidden ‘NOPE' buttons to stop AI content
Let's say that you're worried about artificial intelligence turning us into mushy-brained monsters, draining resources from the planet, slurping all your data and human knowledge, preying on vulnerable minds, wiping out jobs, choking your favorite websites, lying to you or not being useful.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New PREDATOR: BADLANDS Trailer Confirms Connection to ALIEN Franchise
In the opinion of most sci-fi fans, Prey was the best installment of the Predator franchise since the original 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Director Dan Trachtenberg truly delivered with that prequel, and now, he's back in the Predator universe once again, with Predator: Badlands. In this chapter, we follow the extraterrestrial big game hunter as the protagonist for the first time. He's an outcast from his species, sent to an untamed planet filled with deadly creatures to try and survive. You can watch the new Predator Badlands trailer right here: In this film, New Zealand actor Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi plays the outcast 'runt' Dek, a young member of the Predator species. We guess the Predator race (whatever their species name may be) discards of their weak and smaller ones like garbage. Elle Fanning joins him in his adventure, and she plays an android named Thia created by Weyland-Yutani. Yes, the same evil corporation that builds androids from the Alien franchise. Twentieth Century Studios unites these two iconic properties once again! But we're still pretty sure those Alien vs. Predator movies from the early 2000s are still not canon. Elle Fanning's character describes the planet that Drek finds himself on as 'the most dangerous planet in the universe.' Is it the planet of origin for their hunter species? Judging from just the creatures we see in the trailer, this looks like the real 'Jurassic World.' With a Predator character as the film's lead, the same linguist who developed the Naʼvi language for James Cameron's Avatar franchise created a consistent written and verbal language for this alien species. Dan Trachtenberg also directed the animated Predator: Killer of Killers this year. So he's definitely whipped this franchise into shape, and we can't wait to see what's next. Predator: Badlands hits theaters on November 7. Solve the daily Crossword
CNN
3 days ago
- Science
- CNN
The ruff truth about your pet's impact on the planet
People have come up with different ways to reduce their own carbon footprints. But what about your dogs carbon pawprint ? Dogs, and their tons of poop, have a big impact on our planet — a problem that companies and researchers are trying to solve.
CNN
3 days ago
- Science
- CNN
The ruff truth about your pet's impact on the planet
People have come up with different ways to reduce their own carbon footprints. But what about your dogs carbon pawprint ? Dogs, and their tons of poop, have a big impact on our planet — a problem that companies and researchers are trying to solve.
