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"It gave us more opportunities for variety": How Banjo-Kazooie helped the Nintendo 64 compete with PlayStation

Interview | Banjo creators Chris Sutherland, Ed Bryan, Gavin Hood, Gary Richards and Steve Malpass explain how the series evolved

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

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.

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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

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"

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Despite layoffs at Xbox's Rare, Crash Bandicoot 4 and Spyro remake devs are reportedly among the studios "really interested" in a new Banjo-Kazooie game

And they're apparently "being listened to"

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

More than I could have hoped for.

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

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"

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

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

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

No Banjo-Threeie yet

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

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

Banjo-Kazooie enter the Nintendo 64 Multiverse in an incredible-looking mod that spans Pokemon, Conker, and FPS classic Goldeneye

Banjo-Kazooie enter the Nintendo 64 Multiverse in an incredible-looking mod that spans Pokemon, Conker, and FPS classic Goldeneye

While we hope for a Banjo-Threeie

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

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

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

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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Banjo-Kazooie comes to Nintendo Switch Online this week

Banjo-Kazooie comes to Nintendo Switch Online this week

Rare's classic platformer is coming back.

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