Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura recently explained, in the newest Ask the Developer blog, that the team at Nintendo "were also conscious of how Donkey Kong would look from the back while he's moving" since players tend to stare at a character's backside a lot in third-person games.

Donkey Kong is having a moment. This summer, not only did Mario’s original foe get his first theme park ride in the United States, but he’s also got Donkey Kong Bananza, his own mega game coming to Switch 2 later this week, and he might even be getting a movie sometime in the future.

The destruction in Donkey Kong Bananza is just the latest example of an ongoing design trend.

Donkey Kong Bananza is out today, and the game's credits have now confirmed Nintendo's main new voice actor behind Donkey Kong. Unusually for a Nintendo game, Bananza's credits list out each of the game's voice actors with their specific roles — and right at the top is Kouji Takeda,

Best Buy has confirmed that it will have more Switch 2 consoles in stock for the highly-anticpated launch of Donkey Kong Bananza, which is the first original Donkey Kong game in over a decade.

Signs point to an animated film adaptation, which would fit perfectly with Nintendo’s current strategy.

Nintendo has filed a copyright notice for an unannounced Donkey Kong film, in collaboration with Universal Pictures. The filing, for a "Untitled Donkey Kong Project; Motion Picture" lists Nintendo Studios LLC as the copyright holder, alongside Universal Pictures.