New Banjo-Kazooie Rumored to Be In Development

It’s rumor time again!

The latest rumor making waves is that a new Banjo-Kazooie game is in development.

Hope for a new Banjo-Kazooie was revived earlier this month, when Phil Spencer touched on the possibility of reviving past games in an interview with Windows Central and said “You’ve seen from our history that we haven’t touched every franchise that people would love us to touch — Banjo fans, I hear you.”

This acknowledgment, while not confirmation of anything, was enough to spark hope that our beloved 3D platformer series might still have a chance to return.

Now new rumors have come from a supposed insider who claims a new Banjo-Kazooie game has been greenlit.

Banjo-Kazooie is one of my all-times favorites. That’s why games that try to evoke a similar style, like A Hat in Time (which I enjoyed) and Yooka-Laylee (which I still need to play) always catch my interest.

I absolutely loved Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, Nuts & Bolts was one of my primary motivations for getting an Xbox 360 and was quite enjoyable despite being so different, and I even enjoyed the GBA spin-off Grunty’s Revenge. A new Banjo-Kazooie would be a day-one purchase for me for sure.

2024 is already shaping up to be an amazing year for new game releases, and a Banjo-Kazooie announcement would make it even better. In the meantime, I have some of those spiritual successors like Yooka-Laylee to play, while I wait with fingers crossed for the real thing.

Do you think we’ll actually see a “Banjo-Threeie” after all this time?

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