Are you ready for the bear and the bird? (AKA new Banjo & Kazooie)

[Lumastar]

http://www.destructoid.com/new-banjo-kazooie-shown-at-sxsw-289071.phtml

Are you ready to have a sad? The SXSW Gaming Awards had Banjo and Kazooie on screen being flown through the air via audience participation with the use of motion controls. No new game has been announced from Rare just yet, though the studio is working on something, and this was an experience created just for the show by Audience Entertainment.

At least we can eventually play the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie that is currently being developed by ex-Rare staff. Meanwhile, if you're jonesing for other Rare characters you can look forward to playing as Conker in Project Spark, and fighting the Battletoads in Shovel Knight, both good uses of Rare properties and just what everyone has been hoping for, right?

You can check out the SXSW Gaming Awards replay here about 3 minutes in if you'd like to see the Banjo-Kazooie segment in full, though the audio has been muted by Twitch for copyright purposes.

Isn't this so great and hype inducing?

 

[YuruNex]

I do kind of have hope for this, since I don't see any CAAAARS.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Just a warning: Nuts and Bolts didn't start with CARS? CARS!? CARS!!! either.

 

[DragonFreak]

I honestly have no faith Rare can make any good games anymore.

 

[Lin Beifong]

I don't have any faith left in Rareware. Lots of people left the company (Grant Kirkhope being one of them), it is a shadow of its former self, and it pains me that I have to say these things, but there's really no other way left for me to look at this.

http://www.destructoid.com/head-of-xbox-rare-is-building-a-uniquely-rare-game--283722.phtml

Right now with Rare we're at a point where I don't want the Rare brand to mean Kinect Sports.

A bit too late for that, buddy. Haha haha haha ha... excuse me while I go cry myself to sleep now.

 

[GalacticPetey]

Just sell Rare IPs to Nintendo so we can get Banjo and Kazooie in Smash.

 

[Lumastar]

Just sell Rare IPs to Nintendo so we can get Banjo and Kazooie in Smash.

Why would Microsoft do that?

 

[Xiahou Ba]

The Kinect is probably going to end up ----ing the game like what it did to Steel Battalion

Edit: Just found out it was a tech demo, not a preview of the final product. I really hope the Kinect stays out of this.

 

[Specific Neptune]

can't wait for the jontron review of this game

 

[Lin Beifong]

Or his reaction to the news. His reaction to that Conker teaser thing was spot-on and congruent with mine.

 

[GalacticPetey]

Just sell Rare IPs to Nintendo so we can get Banjo and Kazooie in Smash.

Why would Microsoft do that?

Because I want them in Smash.

Of course it won't happen though.