James grew up in the arcades of the 80s and has played games on everything from the Milton Bradley Microvision to the PlayStation 5. He worked in gaming retail during the PS1/PS2 eras, and even had a ...

Yooka-Replaylee PS5 Review. My opinion on this ostensibly remastered version of Yooka-Laylee is complicated and layered. On the one hand, I’ve been playing a collect-a-thon platformer that clearly ...

Playtonic Games’ Yooka-Laylee was one of many Kickstarter successes of its time, in an era in which spiritual successors for classic games were an easy hit. The 2017 original was a clear callback to ...

I was one of the original backers of Yooka-Laylee over ten years ago when the original Kickstarter project launched, and I got to say, going from the university kid sitting in my dorm to now playing a ...

Yooka-Replaylee works a little better in this remixed iteration, but introduces all sorts of new wonkiness along the way. Embark on an open-world 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and ...

Fond of weirdly obscure titles since childhood, Ivanir has been captivated by many Japanese games over the years. Some of his most passionate topics are the Dept. Heaven series, Summon Night ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Developer Playtonic has wrapped up the initial development on ...

It's somehow been seven years since Yooka-Laylee's last proper adventure (I'm not sure 2025's remake, as enjoyable as it was, entirely counts), but the bat and lizard duo are finally back, and this ...

Time passes and the years go by, but sometimes it all feels like a big load of Nope. Accepting that Banjo-Kazooie came out 27 years ago in 1998 isn't the easiest thing, but OK, fine. It was the age of ...