Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair lacks most of the original game’s charm, and its final gauntlet is more tedious than taxing. I’ll never finish Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair—and no, not ...

For quite some time now, the ’90s platformer seemed destined to become a forgotten genre in the industry. Video games and technology have progressed leaps and bounds since the pinnacle of the genre’s ...

It's the brainchild of a team of ex-Rare developers, all with expertise in games like this having worked on titles including Kameo, Banjo-Kazooie, Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and more, along with ...

Logan Moore is the Managing Editor around these parts and enjoys the video game Super Mario Odyssey. I’ll say this up front: if you’ve been clamoring for a mascot platformer for years then you’ll be ...

Playtonic Games' ode to the 3D platformers of the '90s is coming to modern consoles. Yooka-Laylee is getting a remastered version called Yooka-Re-playee for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It's already a few years old but developer Playtonic Games has unveiled a new mode for Yooka-Laylee on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox ...

A few years ago, the 3D platformer was in a bad place. Mario was still around, but the genre had little support elsewhere. Colorful games like Crash Bandicoot, Pyschonauts and Jak and Daxter had ...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a lavishly illustrated love letter to Nintendo, and to that august company’s rich history of sideways-scrolling platform games. It’s a world of bouncing cartoon ...

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Yooka-Laylee is proof that sometimes our fondest memories should stay in the past. The Kickstarter success story promised a new version of classic Rare-developed titles from the Nintendo 64 era, ...

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