{"id":617463,"date":"2026-06-02T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617463\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:26:07","slug":"super-yooka-laylee-kart-leaks-ahead-of-summer-game-fest-as-developer-playtonic-games-teases-there-may-be-faster-ways-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617463\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Yooka-Laylee Kart leaks ahead of Summer Game Fest as developer Playtonic Games teases “there may be faster ways to go”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer Game Fest 2026 is happening this week<\/a>, and while that usually means we can ready ourselves for plenty of surprise video game reveals, invariably not everything will manage to stay a secret until its big day. And it looks like developer Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee<\/a> series is the latest to get leaky, with a Yooka-Laylee kart racer seemingly coming soon.<\/p>\n

An entry for a Super Yooka-Laylee Kart – which would mark the chameleon and bat duo’s fourth video game adventure, if you count last year’s remake – has been spotted on SteamDB<\/a> (thanks Gematsu<\/a>). The page – actually meant for a playtest – includes key art, full of vehicular chaos, strongly suggesting Super Yooka-Laylee Kart is exactly what it sounds like. That’s alongside asset uploads of a header, capsule, and library images.<\/p>\n

Yooka-Replaylee – Official Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

You’d expect this means an official announcement is coming soon (potentially even this week), especially given that Playtonic has been teasing a reveal of something new<\/a> over the past few days. “Collecting quills is far too slow, there may be faster ways to go…”, it wrote on social media, before promising fans<\/a> “it’ll all make sense soon”.<\/p>\n

On paper, the idea of a kart racing spin-off for Yooka-Laylee seems like a no-brainer, and is firmly in keeping with the series’ tradition of honouring video game classics – even if the jump from a platformer to a racer is a big one.<\/p>\n

Initial fan reactions seem to be divided though. Over on the Yooka-Laylee subreddit<\/a>, some users are excited to see the series expand into a different genre, while others are a little disappointed that it’s seemingly moving away from its platforming roots. “It just seems odd that seven years on from Impossible Lair we’ve gotten a re-release of Yooka Laylee with some solid but pretty low effort additional content and now apparently a kart racer”, one poster wrote.<\/p>\n

Yooka-Laylee debuted in 2016 as a 3D platformer that aimed to keep the tradition of oldies like Banjo-Kazooie alive, while Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair<\/a> opted for a side-scrolling approach reminiscent of Donkey Kong Country<\/a>. Last year, an upgraded version of the original arrived through Yooka-Replaylee<\/a>. Could Playtonic still be planning a new 3D entry on top of Super Yooka-Laylee Kart? Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer Game Fest 2026 is happening this week, and while that usually means we can ready ourselves for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}