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Ranking all of the Donkey Kong Country games is no easy task, but as a long-time fan of the classic series, I feel that I'm up to it

Source: Rebecca Spear / iMore Last year, E3 was unexpectedly cancelled due to COVID-19, but the Electronic Entertainment Expo is actually happening this year. Due to the state of the world, E3 2021 will simply be a virtual event that anyone can access rather than an in-person conference held in Los Angeles. Several game developers and tech companies have already confirmed that they will be attending and showing off their new offerings. Of course, as Nintendo fans, we are super excited to learn more about what the Japanese video game company has in store. There will definitely be announcements...

Donkey Kong series back in-house for a new 2D platformer created by the team behind Super Mario Odyssey that could line up with the big ape’s 40th-anniversary celebration. DK’s last big outing was on Nintendo’s previous console, the Wii U. 2014’s  Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was the second of two revivals of the SNES platformer series by Retro Studios, a Nintendo aligned developer out of Texas. That team is currently at work on  Metroid Prime 4, and sources have heard rumblings of a new  Donkey Kong 2D adventure coming from Nintendo of Japan. The rumor includes that�...

Former Metroid Prime Lead Designer Targeted With Abusive Messages Earlier this week, Michael Wikan - the former lead designer of all three Metroid Prime games - revealed on Facebook why he didn't think a Switch port of the In short, he doubts it will be released, as Retro Studios no longer has "functional editor tools to work with the Prime code base" and as a result, everything would have to be "brute-force" hard coded. Metroid Prime 3 alone would apparently be a "herculean effort". Sadly, Wikan's comments appear to have upset some people within the Metroid community, and the former Retro ...

Former Metroid Prime Developer Crushes the Dreams of Nintendo Switch Fans ✖ Metroid Prime 4 is in development for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite. Well, apparently. Many Nintendo fans are increasingly convinced it's never coming out. That said, according to rumors over the years, the first three games of the series are being brought to the Switch and Switch Lite to accompany the long-awaited release of the fourth mainline installment in the series. However, according to a former developer on the series, this is unlikely. Michael Wikan was a senior designer at Retro Studios and ...