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| 24th May 2008 | MTV Multiplayer Blog has a comment from a software engineer at Rare on the subject of Stop N' Swop's removal from the original Banjo games, although it's nothing new.
I'm pretty sure I know what happened with Stop N' Swop - and I don't think it was anything to do with the the N64's Rambus RDRAM as everyone thinks. Maybe one day I'll find out if I'm right... but until then, these crumbs of knowledge are the closest thing we have to facts.
~Mike
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| 13th May 2008 | Yet more leakage has occurred, about gameplay mechanics this time. The official dramatic reveal is rumoured to be held at 5pm this evening, though, so if you've had enough leaked stuff, just don't click the above link and come back tonight - I fully intend to be around as soon as the real news breaks.
~Mike
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| 12th May 2008 | 
Like some BK3 screenies? Of course you would (and there's more than two in here, as well).
EDIT: OK, it seems the date for proper, non-leaked news from Rare is May 13th (that's tomorrow), and rumours are circulating the internet that the new title is Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, although nobody seems to know who said that first and where they got it from. I guess all will be made clear tomorrow, so stay tuned Hive-heads, I'll be on it as soon as the news breaks.
~Mike
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| 11th May 2008 | I won't be on here long because it's insanely hot and sunny outside and any Brit worth his salt will seize this opportunity with desperate glee, but I thought it'd be worth updating quickly to say: thank you, oh loyal followers, for continuing to post on my forums and such during my total disappearance. The reason for my absence? College work.
See, I'm a final-year student and I've been so insanely busy that projects like the Hive that require excesses of time to do (as updates generally consist of elaborate remixes, videos, cunningly-written bits of text, and so on) have simply been pushed onto the back burner. Half of the reason for my update today is to say "fear ye not, Banjo-lovers, for my return is nigh!" Which is an over-dramatised way of saying that my Final Major Project at college will be handed in on May 20th - meaning that in a couple of weeks I'll be free as a bird to update the Hive in any way I see fit, finally. I can't thank everyone enough for their patience, and I hope you don't think I'm bored with Banjo or the Hive, 'cause that ain't the case.
The other half of today's update is to regurgitate some half-baked BK3 news in dutiful fashion. Scribes has been updated with some more puny scraps of info, such as the promise of returning roles for Tiptup and Weldar, as well as the exciting news that Conker and Jet Force Gemini's excellent musician Robin Beanland will be joining series stalwart Grant Kirkhope to bash out the orchestrated (yes! They've confirmed it!) soundtrack. I'm hoping the new tunes will sound somewhere between the classic Banjo and Conker approaches to catchy level music, as I love both of them so much it hurts).
I also hear that there's an upcoming date in the next week or so on which the beans concerning BK3 will finally and definitively be spilt, although I've heard conflicting theories about what the date precisely is. Rest assured, though, that when them beans is spilt, I'll have all the info right here. I promise!
~Mike
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| 20th March 2008 | Small news update - Rare have launched the official Banjo website, although there's nothing on it yet save for a spinning Jiggy animation. Interestingly, the game's title on the website is simply Banjo-Kazooie - have they still not come up with a title, or are they just sticking with that??
IGN, by the way, are rumour-mongering and claiming that the site's source code suggests that the game might be released for Windows and XBox 360. I would like to go on record as saying that I think this is complete cobblers. It'd be nice, though.
~Mike
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