Veteran games writer Andy Robinson, who before resuming a career in journalism spent a few years at Yooka-Laylee…

At long last, Banjo and Kazooie are in Super Smash Bros. “At long last,” I say, because the bear and Breegull duo…

Nintendo’s penultimate E3 announcement today involved the addition of a Microsoft-owned character to Smash Bros.…

Nintendo is giving Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans something they’ve wanted for a long time: Banjo and Kazooie from…

Artists George Crudo and Sean Hicks recently set out to redesign Banjo and Kazooie to give them a more modern look.

Banjo, the titular bear from N64’s Banjo-Kazooie, can speak, but not in words. When he moves his mouth only…

Perhaps to give Odyssey that Smash Bros/Nintendo Museum feel, modder ItzSka has been importing custom levels into…

People poured money into a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to the 1998 Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Kazooie. Why?…

Banjo and his partner Kazooie haven’t been in a Nintendo game since 2005’s Banjo-Pilot thanks to complicated…

Speedruns are all about risk and reward, as runners perform dangerous tricks in search of the best time. Cutscenes…

You’ve spent a handful of hours scurrying around thick jungles, frozen snow fields, and gloopy swamps to find enough…

Yooka-Laylee recaptures some of the best aspects of platforming. You run, jump, and climb your way around dazzling…

Yooka-Laylee is a bright and enthusiastic throwback to classic 3D platforming. It is adventurous and full of…

Yooka-Laylee captures all the good and bad of a Nintendo 64 platformer. It doesn’t just take the gameplay. It also…

The bad news: Yooka-Laylee is delayed to 2017. The good news: It looks wonderful. New trailer above.

Before Banjo-Kazooie was Banjo-Kazooie, it was Dream, an RPG-adventure hybrid that might have been the best-looking…

Rare games meant a lot to the people who played them, so a collection of 30 of (most) of their best works should…

For about the last seven years, Grant Kirkhope has been trying to convince people in the gaming industry that it’s…

If Rare won’t make a new 3D platformer, the folks at Playtonic Games are happy to. Players seem eager to help out,…