One of Mario Kart World 's newest tracks rewinds the clocks and essentially remakes Donkey Kong's arcade game origins with parkour (carkour?) furious enough to make Titanfall 2 fans swoon.

The man behind Donkey Kong's original 3D design has given his thoughts on the ape's new look in Donkey Kong Bananza.

A long-time competitive gamer, Mitchell was made famous in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong for his high scores in several old arcade games, including the original Donkey Kong, for which he at various points held the champion title.

An Australian court has ordered YouTuber Karl Jobst to pay over AU$380,000 (around $237,000 / £183,000) in damages to celebrity arcade gamer Billy Mitchell, relating to defamatory comments made by Jobst in a video published in 2021. Jobst is a Queensland-based gaming YouTuber with a focus on speedrunning and competitive games.

But those intimately familiar with the world of video game speedruns and high scores will recognise him as the pro gamer who earned the highest score ever in the Donkey Kong arcade game by Nintendo.

An Australian court has ruled in favor of Billy Mitchell and ordered a substantial fee to be paid to the ex-Donkey Kong champ.

YouTube creator Karl Jobst has been ordered to pay up to AU$390,447 (or roughly $244,858 US dollars) to notable arcade gamer Billy Mitchell, following defamatory comments made against Mitchell in 2021.

In response to the division among Donkey Kong fans over his look in Donkey Kong Bananza, his former designer has something to say to people complaining. Kevin Bayliss, formerly a character designer for Rare and the main artist behind Donkey Kong’s redesign for the Donkey Kong Country games,