Donkey Kong first hit arcades 45 years ago, but the 1981 classic still has a highly competitive community of players — ...

Game emulation is making great progress thanks to the help of artificial intelligence. In recent weeks, dozens of projects ...

The 1981 promo art starring Jumpman, the hero who became Mario, sold at Landry Pop Auctions for more than five times the old ...

A 1981 promotional poster for the original Donkey Kong, featuring the first public appearance of Mario, has become the the ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Outside of the opening sequence, most of Donkey Kong Bananza seems to take place in a strange world far below Ingot ...

The Donkey Kong series just turned 45! To celebrate, we're revisiting one of (what we remember being) the greatest games in ...

Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza running at 60 FPS with DLSS 5 is now a thing as Nintendo Switch 2 emulation efforts ramp up.

Billy Mitchell, the man who once held world records in classic arcade games like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, has been stripped ...

An original piece of Donkey Kong artwork featuring Mario’s first-ever appearance has sold for more than $329,000, setting a ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Donkey Kong will break new ground in his new Switch 2 game, Donkey Kong Bananza. I mean that literally, in the sense that the 3D action-adventure game is about destruction and digging into the hard ...

I don’t have any keen insight to Nintendo’s process, but if you told me that Donkey Kong Bananza was crafted by a Voltron-like supergroup of key developers from its biggest franchises, I would believe ...