A few days ago, an eagle-eyed user on NeoGAF spotted something interesting in a screenshot of a Banjo-Tooie premium Xbox 360 theme, posted by online by Rare.
As you can see in the close up above, this particular user has been playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Death Tank, the Xbox LIVE Arcade version of Banjo-Tooie, and... wait... what's that? Is that an icon of Joanna Dark from the Nintendo 64 version of Perfect Dark? So let's jump to conclusions -- maybe Rare is prepping an XBLA version of Perfect Dark! Hey, they recently "ported" over two Nintendo 64 games, Banjo-Kazooie and the upcoming Banjo-Tooie, right? It could happen.
But here's what we know, based on what our sources tell us: the icon you're seeing is for a game that's internally called "Bean." No, we're not exactly sure what it is, but this is the same game that was rumored to be the (reportedly) canceled GoldenEye XBLA title. Early last year, a Web site called Xbox Evolved reported something similar on a "Bean Project," saying that the game looks "very similar to GoldenEye, although some models, and other parts of the game are a bit different."
We can't verify that last bit, but we can verify with 100% certainty that the icon you see above is for something called "Bean," and that folks at Rare were playing it as recently as November of last year. With E3 coming up, if Rare and Microsoft do have something to announce, perhaps we'll know sooner rather than later.
Contest:
9:40 AM on 04.10.2009
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EH? EH? *elbow in the ribs*
Just a guess, that's all...
I doubt it's coming to XBLA. But one can only hope.
How about releasing Blast Corps? Donkey Kong? Killer Instinct? Another Conker game? MOTHER FUCKING BATTLETOADS?!
I find ironic that Rare was a powerhouse of ideas back in the laste 90s and they were too limited with Nintendo's no-gore policy. Now they are practically unlimited, they haven't done almost anything. Maybe they preferred to be under the pressure of doing the wrong thing.
That and a third Golden Sun.
As for other games, I never got to play Jet Force Gemini or the original non-Xbox version of Conker's Bad Fur Day, so those would be appreciated...
Coincidence? Probably.
And Goldeneye didn't happen because Rare doesn't have the rights to Bond anymore. They do own PD so this is possible.
@Chronic
You want Rare(A Microsoft owned company) to make a Donkey Kong game(A Nintendo owned IP)?
The rest I agree though.
I would absolutely buy a 360 for that. No joking.
No, I mean Rare can't make another Donkey Kong game, but they can probably port the games they did make like the Donkey Kong Country series or Donkey Kong 64 to the Xbox Live. Although the post-Rare Donkey Kong games hasn't quite been the same...
An updated blast corps would rock though, as long they don't include the backlash, fuck the backlash.
It'd be like bizarro Goldeneye.
Then Jet Force Gemini HD.