Latest articles by Scott McCrae
New Princess Peach actor revealed, weeks after Nintendo got heat for breaking the recasting news to her old actor of 17 years on Mario Kart World's launch date
News "I have so much respect for all of the Peaches that came before me, especially the one I grew up with"
Peak devs update the game with an incredibly unfair new rule: "You no longer win if you die," ruining my chances of ever making it
News The devs have also updated how the in-game timer works because "I saw a Reddit post where one player got 1;00;00 and another got 1;00;01 and it made me sad"
A Doom-based Fallout fan game has emerged after a 3-year absence, and it looks like the best Fallout in over a decade
News Rip and T.E.A.R.
27-year Capcom veteran who worked on everything from Resident Evil to Devil May Cry is finally revealing his studio's new action RPG this year, but warns it's unlike anything they've made before
News "It’s not a good thing to give people the wrong idea of what to expect"
Elden Ring pacifist beats the game without attacking any of the RPG's 200+ bosses, leaving the community to wonder: "When do we get to a point where there's nothing else to do?"
News I get it, I suck at Elden Ring – stop rubbing it in...
Pokemon Presents is having its longest showcase in two years this week, so here's how to watch it
News I wouldn't get my hopes up for Generation 10 though
My Donkey Kong Bananza playthrough is being haunted by the remains of numerous iconic enemies and allies from classics like Donkey Kong Country
News It's good to know that spider got buried with his trainers though
Don't expect to blast your way through Ghost of Yotei: "Blades are the heart of the fantasy"
News "Firearms have a role, and they are incredibly deadly when used at the right time"
Ex-Assassin's Creed and Far Cry lead describes making landscapes in a way that sounds an awful lot like a Shrek metaphor: "It becomes like an onion skin, where we think outwards"
News "You've got to learn the core gameplay loop of what you're making"
Not even Dollman's constant "guilt-tripping" and the pressure of social media was enough to stop this Death Stranding 2 player from spending an hour hauling a worryingly large pile of dead bodies "for science"
News Void co.
I'm glad to announce Donkey Kong Bananza has the Super Mario Odyssey sauce: it's taken less than a day for players to skip a boss fight entirely with speedrunning tech
News He's bigger, faster, and stronger too
Clearly not too busy with the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake, Avatar game, and more, Space Marine 2 devs are teasing something new, and fans think it's a Hellraiser title
News Who you callin' Pinhead?
Donkey Kong Bananza finally confirms who voices DK in the Switch 2 era, and it's the exact Mario Movie actor we all thought it was
News Pauline's voice is new too, but seemingly only for her teen version
Wordle's popularity led to a surge of downloads for an app of the same name that released 5 years before: "It changed my life forever"
News "A lot of people searching for his game went to the App Store and downloaded mine instead"
Steam's slop problem has gotten much worse as reports say the number of games using GenAI has gone up almost 800% in the last year alone
News And that's just on Steam...
Nintendo icon Shigeru Miyamoto spent his time testing Donkey Kong Bananza "smashing and digging" in one spot, which tracks following his hour-long Breath of the Wild playtesting stint "just climbing trees"
News "It was a good thing to see him playing that way"
Sega wants you to make your own Like a Dragon games in Roblox, but your creations need to "stay true to the world and lore" established in the Yakuza series, so please don't make Kiryu and Majima kiss
News Sure man, why not.
Donkey Kong Bananza Metacritic score not only makes it the highest-rated Switch 2 exclusive yet, it ties Donkey Kong 64 as the highest-rated game in the series
News It sits as the fourth highest-rated original game of 2025 so far
Former Nintendo marketing lead says rumors of a Direct later this month "make a lot of sense" due to the lack of a Metroid Prime 4 release date
News A Nintendo Direct is rumored to take place after Donkey Kong Bananza launches
Somewhere in Nintendo's recycling bin is the god of all Goombas, gifted the giant hands of a Super Mario Odyssey boss during experiments for the Switch 2's Donkey Kong Bananza
News First they let them drive and now this
"It must have been an absolute nightmare for the programmers": Nintendo explains Donkey Kong Bananza's voxel tech and why it doesn't look like "stacked cubes" like Minecraft or Hytale
News "We were able to craft Layers that feel truly unique to this game"
I called it, Nintendo confirms Donkey Kong Bananza was actually the inspiration for the Super Mario Bros. Movie redesign all along
News "We took Miyamoto-san's original Donkey Kong as the basis"
26 years after Donkey Kong 64, Nintendo finally wants to establish "two separate branches" of Donkey Kong with the Switch 2's Bananza: 2D and 3D "just as we did with Mario"
News Ohh banana
