Donkey Kong series back in-house for a new 2D platformer created by the team behind
Super Mario Odyssey that could line up with the big ape’s 40th-anniversary celebration.
DK’s last big outing was on Nintendo’s previous console, the Wii U. 2014’s
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was the second of two revivals of the SNES platformer series by Retro Studios, a Nintendo aligned developer out of Texas. That team is currently at work on
Metroid Prime 4, and sources have heard rumblings of a new
Donkey Kong 2D adventure coming from Nintendo of Japan.
The rumor includes that Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (known as EPD Tokyo) will not be using the