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The Latest Breaking News from Banjo

We asked Xbox exec Matt Booty about legacy IP like Banjo-Kazooie: "There's options to do all kinds of things, and we're certainly looking at those all the time"

So... it's not a no

GamesRadar

Meet the cast of The Celebrity Apprentice 2026: from Gladiators to Radio 2 stars

Meet the 12 stars hoping to win £100,000 for their chosen charity

The Independent UK

“I got a call from Burt Bacharach: ‘Can you come to the studio right now?’ So my friend has to move his car so that I can get out – and he runs over my dog!”: How a singer’s beloved pet cheated death during the making of a star-studded ’80s No.1

A dramatic story also starring Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder and Elizabeth Taylor

MusicRadar

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Modders just shadow dropped a PC port of the original Banjo-Kazooie with ultrawide support, improved controls, and quality-of-life features

There's a built-in mod menu with support for the Banjo scene's most celebrated mods, too.

PC Gamer

The 10 Best Platformer Games of All Time

Dark Souls has nothing on these all-time frustrators.

The Mary Sue

"Unbelievable!": Banjo-Kazooie composer as shocked as everyone else to hear the Bubblegloop Swamp theme on a national NFL broadcast

Yes, Sunday Night football really did just feature Banjo-Kazooie music

GamesRadar

A new Banjo Kazooie game is here ... sort of, and it's not on Xbox

A small team of fans has created an unofficial, yet amazing new Banjo-Kazooie game — but it's only playable on PlayStation, through Dreams.

Windows Central

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Before Banjo-Kazooie's mascot was a bear and after he was a human, the N64 icon was actually a rabbit, according to a former Rare developer

"We went from a boy to a rabbit for about a week"

GamesRadar

‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity

From Margaret McDonald’s Glasgow Boys to Nathanael Lessore’s King of Nothing, boys take centre stage in this year’s Carnegie-winning titles. Let’s hope that the male protagonists persuade more boys to pick up a book

The Guardian - UK

Banjo-Kazooie Nostalgia 64 is a love letter to retro gaming

More than I could have hoped for.

Destructoid

After working on something "big and ambitious" with Xbox, the Spyro and Crash studio wants to tackle another iconic platformer: Banjo-Kazooie

"I think we all can agree Banjo's been hibernating long enough, right?"

GamesRadar

Quordle today – my hints and answers for Friday, January 31 (game #1103)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

TechRadar

Banjo-Kazooie composer reiterates he has "zero hope" for a new game in Rare's iconic platformer series, and besides, "all you die-hard fans would instantly hate it"

But "of course" he'd be up for doing the soundtrack for a new Banjo game if it ever happened

GamesRadar

This animatronic Banjo-Kazooie puppet showed up for 1 second in a '90s N64 commercial, only to reappear decades later, sell for $2,100, and haunt my dreams forever

This is the stuff nightmares are made of

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After reports that an Xbox exec said "nobody cares about Banjo-Kazooie," he's correcting the record: "I absolutely know how much Banjo-Kazooie means to our fans"

The 26-year-old platformer franchise matters

PC Gamer

Pinch me! I'm now prepping for my dream PC port of classic Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie as this fan-made decompilation project hits 100%

Getting Jiggy with it

GamesRadar

It's taken years, but Banjo-Kazooie fans have finally finished decompiling the code of Rare's classic 3D platformer, paving the way for new community experiences

But where will the community go from here?

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Banjo-Kazooie composer teases that "things are afoot" before quickly clarifying that no, it's not "Banjo related"

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N64 modder continues to put Banjo-Kazooie into classic games, this time with a wonderful Zelda: Wind Waker invasion

After entering the N64 multiverse, Rare's bear and bird take a trip to a GameCube classic

The National (Scotland)

Inside Scots novel born from 'touch starvation' in pandemic

DURING the pandemic, as she was shielding in her parents’ house, Margaret McDonald developed what she calls “touch starvation”, which she…

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer mourn loss of beloved dog

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are mourning the loss of their beloved dog, Banjo. The couple rescued Banjo from a puppy mill in 2009 and he was deeply loved...

Newcastle Herald

'Beautiful and very calm': greyhounds looking for love, and a safe home

Banjo the one-eyed greyhound brings smiles to aged care residents.

Liverpool Echo

Lost chocolate bars and flavours Scousers want to see brought back

Inverse

You Need to Play the Most Important 3D Platformer of All Time on GamePass ASAP

'Banjo Kazooie' wrote the blueprint for a decades worth of adventures

Windows Central

The 8 top classic Xbox franchises we want to see rise from the dead

Everybody loves a comeback, which is why games like Flight Simulator, Age of Empires, and Fable are all enjoying a renaissance right now. But what Xbox's extensive backlog? Are there other games we could see come back? We can only hope.

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