Couch Command | There Are Four Hosts | Johnny Caps Flashback | Forum | News | KDrama
Register
Login

playtonic

Yooka-Laylee Board Game Announced

Yooka-Laylee Board Game Announced

, , , , , , 0

Since Microsoft isn’t willing to do anything with Banjo and Kazooie beyond license them out for Smash games, it falls to their creators to carry on with two knockoffs, Yooka and Laylee. So far, Playtonic Games — a game studio made up of ex-Rare employees — has whipped up two tributes in the form of Yooka-Laylee (the 3D Banjo games) and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (the 2D Donkey Kong Country games). We hoped we’d hear about a third game starring Yooka and Laylee during E3, but there was no such announcement yet. They will, however, be starring in a game of a different kind. The lizard and bat are hopping into the realm of board games courtesy of a partnership with Game Decks (who will make the game) and Limited Run (who will distribute it). The Yooka-Laylee board game is for two to four players and comes with a deck of cards that are also the board — the cards are laid out as spaces for Yooka and Laylee

Yooka-Laylee Is Back, And Flatter Than Ever

Yooka-Laylee Is Back, And Flatter Than Ever

, , , , 0

First you said “Why won’t anybody bring back Banjo-Kazooie styled 3D collectathons? We miss them!” And Playtonic, a team made up of veterans from Rare at its peak, responded to those demands with the Banjo clone Yooka-Laylee. Then you said “Never mind! 3D collectathons belong to the past! We hate this now!” and threw Yooka-Laylee to the wall, then threw a temper tantrum. Do you deserve a Yooka-Laylee 2, given the way you’ve been behaving? Certainly not. Lucky for you Playtonic is slow to anger, and is giving this one more go. The newly announced Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair reworks the lizard and bat’s world a new perspective: 2D action platforming. In this new platforming adventure hybrid, Yooka and Laylee must combine their abilities to take on a series of challenging and vibrant 2.5D levels and explore and solve puzzles in a beautiful 3D overworld. It’s on them to rescue Queen Phoebee’s Royal Beettalion Guard from each level, as they size up Capital B’s most dastardly challenge yet —

Yooka-Laylee’s Release Date, A New Trailer And More

Yooka-Laylee’s Release Date, A New Trailer And More

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 0

Playtonic Games, crafters of the crowdfunded Banjo-Kazooie love letter known as Yooka-Laylee, have just dropped the announcement everybody’s been waiting for….the game is nearly complete and we have a release date! You’ll be able to hop and bop with a lizard and bat April 11, 2017..for just $39.99! (This is the preorder price; it may change.) Look for it in both digital and physical form on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac and Linux. So what about the Wii U? Uhhhhh, ahaha, funny thing about THAT. Releasing any game on the Wii U this late wouldn’t be wise, but that isn’t the reason Playtonic has “switched.” It’s because the game wasn’t running as well on the Wii U’s powered-down hardware. If you get the implication of my quote marks, though, that doesn’t mean the game is skipping Nintendo entirely. The good news is that we WILL get Yooka-Laylee on Switch. The bad news is that moving the title to a new machine this late in the game means a delay

Top 14 Revelations About Rare from The Yooka-Laylee AMA

Top 14 Revelations About Rare from The Yooka-Laylee AMA

, , , , , 0

Playtonic, the new game studio formed by ex-Rare employees and currently at work on the Banjo-Kazooie-inspired 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee, conducted an AMA on Reddit today, where many previously unknown facts about your favorite Rare games of the past were revealed. Here are fourteen of the best: Development of Kazooie [Steve Mayles] Banjo was already designed with a backpack and we needed a double jump, so we just had some wings come out of it. Then later we needed a fast run move so had some legs come out. Eventually it just made sense to have a whole character in there… it was never the plan to start with! ([Gavin Price:] This is a good example of naturally evolving game design) Crunch time for the original Donkey Kong Country Towards the end of Donkey Kong Country, we had to prepare a build to send to Nintendo so we were working all days – it was a Saturday morning and I awoke to hear a noise at my window, which was odd

Miss Banjo-Kazooie? Support Yooka-Laylee

Miss Banjo-Kazooie? Support Yooka-Laylee

, , 0

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been starved for a new 3D platformer for a long time. Except for the heavy hitters like Mario and Sonic, consoles appear to have abandoned family genres entirely in favor of dudebro shooters. You have have gotten word that the original developers of Banjo-Kazooie (who unsurprisingly no longer work for Rare) want to make their own spiritual sequel, a new B-K in all but name. Now their newly-formed team, Playtonic Games, has officially announced the project, and they need your support to make it as big as possible. Previously known as Project Ukulele, the team of Brits have unveiled…Yooka-Laylee (say it out loud). Yooka is a chameleon, and Laylee is the bat attached to him. They were created by character artist Steve Mayles, who also designed Banjo and Kazooie as well as the Rare-ified Donkey Kong that Nintendo has used ever since. The best way to support Yooka-Laylee is to go find a giant pad with Yooka and Laylee’s face on it, stand there