In an interview with IGN, Donkey Kong Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi and producer Kenta Motokura ( Super Mario Odyssey ’s director) were asked why Pauline is riding on DK’s back in the game. Their answer was a perfect window into how game development often seems to work at Nintendo,

The creation of Donkey Kong Bananza started with destruction. “What we were really going for was this gameplay experience that comes from destruction,” Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi says in an interview with The Verge. From that simple premise, Bananza ’s creators have built an entire game about breaking stuff.

Oooooh, banana! Multinational entertainment brand Nintendo has filed a copyright notice for an all-new Donkey Kong film. The filing, shared by IGN, names Nintendo Studios LLC and Universal Pictures as copyright holders for the previously unannounced “Untitled Donkey Kong Project;