In today's Donkey Kong Bananza Direct presentation, Donkey Kong returns to the spotlight with mayhem, music, mystery and oh-so-many bananas. Launching July 17 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 ...

Nintendo (NTDOY) released its Q2 FY26 earnings report on November 4, 2025. This report revealed that Donkey Kong Bananza hit ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The latest entry in the Donkey Kong series is a banana-fuelled ...

Donkey Kong Bananza kicks things off right, as a lot of the early game zones have some of the most fun references. That includes the Hilltop Layer (SL 200), which hosts the "Nostalgia Country" ...

Dig deep and finish your collectible hunt in the penultimate level of Donkey Kong Bananza. The Forbidden Layer is one of the strangest in Donkey Kong Bananza — this weird underground world is floating ...

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Get every banana in SL101 with these map locations. The second area of Lagoon Layer is Sublayer 101 — and collecting bananas is getting more complicated in Donkey Kong Bananza. To fully explore this ...

As you near the end of your time in the Hilltop Layer in DK Bananza, you’ll find a treat of a challenge course in the form of Nostalgia Country, where you’ll get to play through a remake of the first ...

I ranked the Donkey Kong Country TV songs. I went back in time and wrote a recap on Donkey Kong history. Now it's only natural to bring these two concepts together and rank some Donkey Kong games. In ...

In Donkey Kong Bananza, one of Donkey Kong's main objectives is to gather up as many Banandium Gems (or simply, Bananas) as he can. While this isn't actually required to progress the story, it's worth ...