Operation Backlog Completion 2024

New Banjo-Kazooie Rumored to Be In Development

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Dec 292023
 

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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Toys for Bob’s Mysterious Tweet Sparks New Spyro Hopes

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Dec 182023
 

It’s been 5 years since the Spyro Reignited Trilogy brought the first three Spyro games back, and 15 years since the last new game in the series.

(We are rapidly approaching 20 years since the last Spyro game I played, since I never tried the Legend of Spyro games, and I don’t quite know how to feel about that.)

Despite hopes of a new Spyro game announcement for the 25th anniversary, the anniversary came and went without so much as a tease.

Spyro was added to Crash Team Rumble recently, however, which has led some fans to hope that the new assets could hint at an upcoming new Spyro game.

Now we have another shred of hope to add more fuel to the fire, as Toys for Bob, the developer of the Skylanders games and the Reignited Trilogy, shared a tweet about working with Unreal Engine 5 that has blurred screens in the background of the picture. A blurred screen doesn’t say much, but one of the screens shows enough purple to get fans whispering about Spyro and Skylanders.

Personally, I don’t quite see it yet. It does look like the right shade of purple, but nothing else in that image really screams “Spyro” at me. Nevertheless, it at least seems like they’re hinting at something in development… and I’d love for it to be a new Spyro game.

I know, I know, I should play the Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4 while waiting. I can’t really talk about anticipation for a new one when I’m still twiddling my thumbs about those.

Anyway, what do you think of the latest potential hints to a new Spyro game? Is Spyro 4 (or whatever they’d end up titling it) in development, or are we merely grasping at straws?

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Spyro is Celebrating Its 25th Anniversary

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Sep 012023
 

We are quickly approaching the 25th anniversary of the Spyro series.

That’s right, the original Spyro the Dragon launched on September 9, 1998.

Now, I haven’t talked about the Spyro series too much here, but that’s because I played the original trilogy long before I started blogging, and the later games after the series switched developers never quite clicked with me.

I picked up the remastered collection, but haven’t played it yet due to having played the originals.

But those original three were among my favorites. I loved those games.

With the 25th anniversary fast approaching, they announced that the remastered trilogy has sold 10 million copies worldwide, a nice milestone to cross. The Spyro social media accounts also changed their profile and header pictures to reflect the 25th anniversary.

All in all, it looks like they’re serious about celebrating the 25th anniversary, so I have my fingers crossed for a new Spyro game announcement! Crash Bandicoot got a new game just a few years ago (which I still need to play), so why not Spyro?

Despite falling away from the series after the original trilogy, I’d definitely be willing to give a brand-new Spyro game a chance. Do you think they’ll announce a new game for the anniversary?

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