The original Yooka-Laylee was a game I had looked forward to only to give up on it after its first level. Meanwhile, its sequel is a game I practically paid no attention to and ended up falling in love with once I started playing. Why didn’t anyone tell me, specifically, that Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible […]

Playtonic has announced Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, a 2.5D platformer for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.

For fans of the Nintendo 64 masterpiece Banjo-Kazooie, there was an astronomical amount of hype for Yooka-Laylee. After all, it was seen as the spiritual successor to the game, as well as being developed by former members of Rare. Unfortunately, when it was released in April, there were several issues with the game that many […]

Yooka-Laylee is here, and well, the reception has been mixed, to say the least.

My good buddy considers himself a pretty big fan of Donkey Kong 64.

With a little over two months left before release, Playtonic Games announced that they completed development on Yooka-Laylee and have officially gone gold. The impressive milestone comes at the end of what would soon be a two year development cycle after the game was successfully backed on Kickstarter in 2015. The game ended its fan-funded campaign with over $3.2 million […]

As a person who never owned a Nintendo 64, Rare‘s beloved platformer Banjo-Kazooie is something that completely passed me by when I was a kid. I was still aware of Banjo‘s impact, and it became more apparent to me as I became more engrossed in Rare’s games in the Xbox 360 era. However, I never […]

International games developer and publisher Team17 of Worms fame has appointed industry veteran Chris van der Kuyl–co-founder of the studio that ported Minecraft–as non-executive chairman.

The vision of a platformer “rare-vival” is becoming much more clear, and now, we get our first real look at what we’ll get to play come 2017.

It may not be the bear and bird, but the lizard and bat are really shaping up to take their spots as platforming superstars.