There’s a Nintendo Direct for Donkey Kong Bananza on June 18

The Switch 2 is officially out in the wild, but the launch lineup is a bit thin. Mario Kart World is great, of course, but I’m missing a legitimate 3D platformer. That’s where Donkey Kong Bananza comes in. Nintendo has announced a Direct livestream for its next first-party game, scheduled for June 18 at 9AM ET.

It’ll stream live via Nintendo’s official YouTube account. We’ve put an embed below, so feel free to keep this page bookmarked for Wednesday morning. We’ll be watching and will pull out all of the juicy banana-shaped nuggets.

Nintendo promises “roughly 15 minutes of information about the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game.” That matches the length of the recent Direct that was dedicated to Mario Kart World.

We still don’t know too much about this game, other than the basics. It stars Donkey Kong and he wants to collect gigantic gold bananas because of course he does. The game worlds are destructible, so the goofball gorilla can get his Minecraft on and dig through just about anything.

It has been suggested that any ape-related destruction remains as a permanent part of the map, thanks to the increased power of the Switch 2. The initial trailer also shows some sidescrolling sections inspired by Donkey Kong Country.

This seems like the perfect video game to tide us over until Mario gets his lazy butt away from the racing tracks and back into saving kingdoms. Donkey Kong Bananza will be available on July 17 for Switch 2.