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"Rare's most recent Xbox 360 title, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts might not have been a huge commercial success, but the British developer still believes the game was a success.
"I guess we consider it to be a success in that it met the expectation of the people that were creating it, in terms of the final product," Rare design director George Andreas told VideoGamer.com. "In terms of execution, I can honestly say I don’t think you could have executed that particular concept much better.""
"PathEngine has announced the release 5.21.00 of their pathfinding and agent movement SDK, with key features of the release being the addition of functionality for projecting 3D geometry to ground shapes, significant optimisation of pre-process data structures, and 3D content processing improvements. In addition, the team have also announced a licensing agreement with Monolith, and to Nexon for Nexon Star."
"Its the eleventh day of Christmas today, and that means its time for the eleventh instalment in The Twelve Games of Christmas. A feature series running every day on the twelve days of Christmas here at Electronic Theatre, The Twelve Games of Christmas aims to highlight the top performers of 2008 month-by-month, and help you decide what you should be picking-up in those January sales!"
Capcom should take notice for those who still have never been able to enjoy Dead Rising because of the small text problem. Rare has released a patch that gives you the option to play the game with larger text, thus allowing you to actually read what is going on if you are playing on a standard definition television (ie, still the majority of gamers).
"In the credits of the new Banjo-Kazooie, with designer names rolling, side kick Kazooie makes a self depreciating wisecrack directed at Rare that for elements of online forums is regarded as gospel
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All the real talent left years ago.
Its a sad and misinformed myth that carries far more weight and supposed truth than it ought to.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is a singular, mighty salvo that refutes that.
For those who havent been paying attention or simply feel insecure about ..."
"PC
Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: World at War Limited Collector's Edition, History Channel Civil War: Secret Missions, Petz Horse Club, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Secret Service, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Expansion Pack), World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Edition (Expansion Pack)
PS2
Call of Duty: World at War - Final Fronts, Eternal Poison, Hasbro Family Game Night, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009
PS3
Call of Duty: ..."
Bad news for those Xbox 360 owners who haven't jumped on the HD train yet. In the demo of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts many people with SD Tv sets found the text unreadable, which is rather big since there's no other way to find out what's going on without it. When this was brought up there was discussion of releasing a patch, but apparently its just not going to happen according to Rare's community George K. So I would steer clear if I were you.
One of the surprise hits at the Tokyo Game Show was Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. Yes, a non-RPG Xbox 360 game literally stopped crowds. Every time a Nuts and Bolts video was shown, hundreds of people would stop what they were doing and watch it (as shown in the above picture). Take notes, Microsoft.
Discuss in the Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts forum
The official website for the platform game titled Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts has added a couple new things, which include forums and a developer blog! That's not all, though! Hit the source to find out what else has changed.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is set to come out on November 11th just for the 360.
Courtesy of blog Wii @ Everyday comes the scans from the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu for this week, with new game announcements and more images of those known upcoming games.
Games featured:
A full list of achievements that you can get for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts has come out from Xbox360achievements.org. There are a total of 50 achievements, and you can get 1000 points for all of them together. Go see the the source for the full list of achievements.
"[W]hen you pre-order Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts n Bolts (from selected retailers) you will receive a code which allows you to gain access to the classic Banjo-Kazooie game via the Xbox Live Arcade for FREE and before it is released to the general public.
The deal is actually pretty sweet, with the rest of the Xbox Live members having to wait till after the retail game launches which will be "a couple of weeks" after you gain access to it.
One of the biggest advantages to pre-ordering the game..."
On Tuesday, July 29th, lawyer and Microsoft game developer Melissa Batten, 36, was fatally shot by her husband, Joseph Batten in what was a murder-suicide in a parking lot in Redmond, Washington.
There were reports of the couple's marriage falling apart, with Melissa Batten filing for a protection order against her estranged husband after a series of events that had culminated in the latter acquiring and brandishing a gun to the late Mrs. Batten. The order was granted one week prior to th...
Joystiq's Justin McElroy got his hands on a demo of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts at E3 and he was pretty disappointed with what appeared to be the main gameplay and plot. While he admitted to not being a big fan of the series, he felt severely "uninspired" while playing the demo, claiming that he was soon "bored and almost ready to pack it in".
However, it's not all bad news for BK fans. Once McElroy fiddled around with the vehicle editor he started having some real fun, eventually spendi...
"The original N64 classic, Banjo Kazooie, will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade this Holiday season. Along with Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Rare fans will now have two platforming games to look forward to. Though one will include a little more vehicles than the other."
In a Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts IGN video yesterday, Microsoft Game Studios creative director Ken Lobb said "So you basically grab with the wrench, and then you twist the controller around...", which lead for some to think a motion controller could be coming for the 360. Microsoft has denied this, saying "Ken's comment is in reference to rotating the left analog stick while hitting the X-button to move different things in the game."
"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..."
"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."
In answer to many Banjo and related Rare games, Scribes is at it again. This month, they released the name of the so called "Sunset Beach" level, they talk about whether they might consider doing a Banjo TV Show, and they discuss some other trivial things like Captain Blackeye's first name. They also 'accidentally' reveal that Weldar will return and we finally get a "screenshot" of Banjo-Threeie! =D
Go to Source for full article.
Rare has recently launched a site for a new game in the Banjo-Kazooie series, containing a mere puzzle piece. Hopefully more will be to come shortly, but presumably this will show up on at least the Wii.
A recent update on Banjo-Kazooie 3 has just come up at rarewares official site!
As a responce to Fan Mail, Mr Scribes said that Spiral Mountain will come back again as the starting place of Banjo-Kazooie 3 but it will be sorta destroyed after Grunty used her mega spell to destroy Banjo's house and the Enviroment.
He also answered that the Mumbling that is said when the characters are talking will come back after much deliberation.
![Box shot of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts [Europe]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvWGJveF8zNjAvQWN0aW9uL1BsYXRmb3Jt/banjokazooie_nuts__bolts_frontcover_small_UCWbGw55JuMRDmu.jpg)