50 Deaths In Donkey Kong Country Returns, In One Sitting

Donkey Kong is the anti-Kirby. While death is nearly impossible in the charming, cosy Wii side-scroller Kirby’s Epic Yarn released this month, gravity and spikes murder Donkey Kong often in November’s Donkey Kong Country Returns.


September 24, 2010
News

Donkey Kong Country Pre-order Bonuses Are Bananas

Wii owners who have already earmarked funds for Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii may want to fork over some of that cash to GameStop, especially if you want to encase your Wii Remotes in banana pouches.


September 11, 2010

Donkey Kong Country Returns Wants To Make A Monkey Out Of You

Donkey Kong Country Returns isn’t just shaping up to be a great singleplayer game, it looks like it could be one of the better two-player cooperative games to hit the Wii this year.


June 26, 2010
News

Their Orders Are To ‘Make A Better Donkey Kong Country’

The man who created Donkey Kong had some specific advice for the people who are making the next Donkey Kong game: the gorilla better slap the ground properly.


June 16, 2010

Donkey Kong Country Returns In This E3 Trailer

Donkey Kong returns in Donkey Kong Country…Returns, for the Wii, and there’s not a plastic drum or Queen song in sight.


News

Donkey Kong’s Back With Donkey Kong Country Returns

Retro Studios, best known for its work on the Metroid series, the Texas-based studio takes a swing at Donkey Kong with Donkey Kong Country Return, a sidescrolling platformer due out this holiday.


June 14, 2010

Rumour: Metroid Prime Team On, Like, Donkey Kong

Retro Studios, the Austin, Texas based development team responsible for making three Metroid Prime games for Nintendo – and one Metroid Prime compilation – may be ready to reveal its new project, a game reportedly starring Donkey Kong.


December 23, 2009
News

The Man Who Never Wanted To Make ‘The Citizen Kane of Games’

Three unusual things happened to former Metroid Prime designer Mark Pacini in 2009: He received high praise he didn’t seek, saw a somewhat depressing game box and figured out that gaming in 2011 “is going to kind of suck.”


October 7, 2009
In Real Life

Is Metroid Prime The Citizen Kane Of Video Games?

If Orson Welles’ groundbreaking, multiple award winning film Citizen Kane has an analogous counterpart in the video game space, one ABC News report argues that it’s Nintendo’s Metroid Prime Trilogy.


September 23, 2009
News

Development Studios That Don’t Put Out Many Games Might Be Busy

Do you ever wonder why some of gaming’s top development studios put out so few games? I know, I know. Making games is hard. But here’s what happens when you ask the Metroid Prime developers that question.