The "Banjo Blog" was updated today by Rare's George K, who brings us some lovely new high definition screenshots of Banjo-Tooie. The game is of course, a re-release for the Xbox Live Arcade, due out in a few months...!

The game will be available to download this April, appropriate since Easter is the designated time for hunting multi-coloured eggs.

As with the XBLA release of Banjo-Kazooie, you can expect all the fully-featured fun from the original game. But there’s more – 4J Studios have dredged the Banjo team’s collective memory and implemented the original plan for Stop ‘n’ Swop, for the first time on any platform ever and after many long years of waiting. Without going into too much detail, the Stop ’n’ Swop items collected in Banjo-Kazooie will ‘magically’ appear in Tooie, resulting in... well, you'll just have to find out. What could be cooler than that? Nothing, that’s what – not even Kazooie turning into a dragon.

Naturally there’s still more to discover, but we want to keep some secrets. They’re not buried too deep in the game, but for now at least, our beaks are sealed.

chautemoc via forums.banjo-kazooie.com »