The Donkey Kong Country series of platformers is delightful, but the games suffer from a lack of proper co-op. Nintendo and Retro Studios eventually released a proper co-op installment called Donkey Kong Country Returns for Wii and 3DS. A lot of gamers missed that installment, alas. Luckily, Nintendo has now announced Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for Switch, giving a fresh generation of players a chance to get our Donkeys Konged.

In the latest Nintendo Direct, an announcement regarding purchasing original Wii games on the Wii U Nintendo eShop was stated. Players can now begin downloading some of their favorites of Wii games through the Wii U Nintendo eShop, some of them including co-op!

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Jimmy Fallon has been doing an amazing job of promoting technology and gaming to the mainstream since he took over the Late Night Show.  The entire past week was devoted to video games has a post E3 celebration of sorts and on Friday Jimmy had Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aime on the show.

Some big news is coming out of Nintendo's conference at E3 today.  Amid the news about the new 3DS handheld (which we'll cover shortly) and the latest Zelda game (The Skyward Sword) comes news of a revival of a classic Nintendo co-op series.  Donkey Kong is coming back to the Wii!  In the quite literally titled Donkey Kong Country Returns, Donkey and Diddy will be teaming up for adventure once again.  The gameis being developed by Retro Studios, and is coming "this holiday season".  That's some fantastic news, as the Donkey Kong Country games are well regarded.  The co-op elements were a bit too simplistic in the originals, so perhaps that will be fixed in the new title.  We'll keep you posted with further developments!