"And we got one! The wallpaper, sent to 30 winners of a contest that was hidden in the recent scribes update, contains characters portraits from Nuts and Bolts. But it also contains blurred out (possible spoilers) secret characters that will appear in Nuts and Bolts."

"In a post over on the Xbox.com forums, Rare community manager George Kelion (under his XBL gamertag Monkeythumbz) has offered an insight into the "blocky" visual style seen in the developer's upcoming Xbox 360 video game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

"Banjo's new look is meant to be self-referential," explained Kelion. "Videogames have developed their own visual language - from the pixels of 8-bit gaming, through the parallax backgrounds of 16-bit to the blocky, low-poly designs of 32 and 6..."

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"The first images from Rare's upcoming Banjo-Kazooie 3 (said to be called Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts) have been leaked online, showing off the art style and a vehicle creation screen for the very first time.

As we reported last week, Microsoft is rumoured to be showcasing this year's Christmas line-up tomorrow at a North American media summit.

Banjo 3 was tapped to be unveiled, along with Fable 2 and Gears of War 2. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the bear has jumped out the door prematurely."

Two screens were leaked before, but now 13 more have been revealed. It seems the game will have quite an emphasis on vehicles! Go to the source to see the rest of them.

"Representing the first media of the game to arrive since its 2006 announcement trailer, the images provide an in-game glimpse of the first Banjo effort to hit a home console since the Nintendo 64 release of Banjo Tooie in 2000."

""Bottles' family have left him, as the trauma of seeing him killed and then resurrected was too much for them to take. The mole has been a regular sorry sight at Jolly Roger's Inn, attempting to drown his sorrows with Blackeye's 'sea sickness' drink." However... "Tiptup will indeed make an appearance, complete with wooden acting skills." Did he just give away the secret Sunset Beach level? ZOMG PR CATASTROPHE"

"Check out Disinformation Central and send in your drink-addled guesswork on our cheeky Banjo April Fool efforts! Which one's right? Which ones had better not be?"

"A mysterious website usually means we’ll actually be given something interesting within a few weeks. Who knows?"

""Spiral Mountain will indeed be making a third appearance. We've just copied the old level from the previous games and tried to tart it up a bit with some lens flares and lots of blowing grass, hopefully you won't notice.
"The 'voices or mumbling' debate went on for some time, but we have decided that... ... ...THE MUMBLING WILL REMAIN! Banjo is known for the mumbling so it seemed odd to change it to 'proper' speech just because we could."