While the Yooka-Laylee series has had its ups and downs, the team at Playtonic Games have put in the work to continuously refine their platforming chops; recently releasing their pseudo-remake Yooka-Replaylee. Similar to the mascot platformers which inspired the series, Yooka-Laylee looks set to receive a surprise kart racing spin-off.

In the lead-up to this week’s onslaught of video game announcements, the team at Playtonic Games have been cryptically teasing something related to Yooka-Laylee (as they have done in the past). Taking to their socials, the indie studio published a couple of playful clips alongside the the poems:

“A green reptile, a purple bat,

Are plotting something… fancy that!

Collecting quills is far too slow,

There may be faster ways to go…”

Based on the wording, the clips shared and the fact that the end of Yooka-Replaylee included stickers of the protagonists driving race karts, it can be safe to assume that we’ll be getting a Kart Racer next. Topping it all off, Playtonic also recently changed their social media profile picture to a close-up of Yooka’s eye looking suspiciously like a car headlight.

The Yooka-Laylee series has always tried to embody the spirit of classic platformers, and so it makes perfect sense for them to shift gears to a different genre next.

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