Nintendo created Donkey Kong’s biggest adventure by breaking everything

Screenshot from Donkey Kong Bananza featuring Donkey Kong punching rocks with a young Pauline hanging off his shoulder.

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 […]

The Nintendo Switch 2 is an awesome upgrade for parents like me

A screenshot from the video game Super Mario Odyssey.

I wouldn’t have preordered a Nintendo Switch 2 just for myself. The price is high, there’s no new Smash Bros. or Metroid Prime (yet), and I’ve got a perfectly good original Nintendo Switch and Steam […]

Answering the Nintendo Switch 2’s lingering accessibility questions

A photo of the NIntendo Switch 2’s Joy-Con controllers in their controller grip.

One of the biggest surprises of the Nintendo Switch 2’s reveal was its proposed accessibility. For years, Nintendo has been known for accidentally stumbling on accessibility solutions while stubbornly refusing to engage with the broader […]

Nintendo Switch 2 review: exactly good enough

Nintendo Switch 2 review: exactly good enough

The first Switch was such a hit that Nintendo decided not to mess with a good thing. Instead of releasing a successor that feels like a generational leap or a pivot in a new direction, […]