{"id":450,"date":"2025-07-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:46:35","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-26th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-26th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (26th July)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m gonna wreck it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we are once more at the end of July. DK arrived on Switch 2 over a week ago and it seems that most people are absolutely loving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Bananza<\/a> &#8211; most, but not <em>all<\/em>, unfortunately!<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1 in 10 players responding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/poll-has-donkey-kong-bananza-made-you-feel-ill\">in our poll<\/a> say they&#8217;re getting sick when playing the game. The exact cause is up for debate, with the camera&#8217;s &#8216;following&#8217; behaviour and the game&#8217;s smashable terrain being likely culprits upsetting a sizeable minority of DK fans. That doesn&#8217;t seem to have hurt sales of the game, mind, even if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/japanese-charts-donkey-kong-bananza-sells-a-bunch-but-cant-beat-mario-kart\">Kong can&#8217;t quite compete<\/a> with launch game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-26th-july\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m gonna wreck it. Here we are once more at the end of July. DK arrived on Switch 2 over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-26th-july\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (26th July)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisthow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}