Taken from George K's (Rare Community Manager) post on the Banjo Blog:
"You may have heard rumblings after the festive season had drawn to a close that the Banjo team were back at work. Well, we're happy to reveal that this wasn't just indigestion from the last of the turkey sandwiches, but rather a li'l sum'n sum'n that we've got on the boil to spice up Nuts & Bolts, as well as the incredibly exciting work that we've been putting into the forthcoming release of Banjo-Tooie on Xbox LIVE Arcade. The game will be available to download this April, appropriate since Easter is the designated time for hunting multi-coloured eggs.
In what promises to be amongst the biggest and boldest – and certainly the bear-iest – releases on Xbox LIVE Arcade, Banjo-Tooie will be a note-perfect migration of Banjo and Kazooie's second adventure. In their struggle against Grunty and her wicked sisters, the bear and bird can now rely on the extra grunt supplied by the Xbox 360, bringing with it silky-smooth frame rates and super-sharp HD graphics.
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."
Microsoft has added touch control support for several Xbox Game Pass titles for Android including (among others) Call of the Sea and Genesis Noir.
Tocuh controls are usually iffy at best. I haven't tried them in while. I might give them a whirl.
What will happen when 8 dedicated speedrunners take on one of the most grueling speedruns of all time? Only one way to find out! The Rareware 301% takes place this weekend, and it is bound to be a great showing. Check out Peteredea's intro for the event and learn how you can participate.
Banjo-Tooie might be the perfect example of why bigger and longer might not always mean that the game will turn out to be better.
Haha these games were charming. I'm glad rare has their head above water again with sea of theives.
Normal like everything else xbox touches.. Killer instinct is forgotten, I don't know why cause I think x1 really had cool games at launch
Banjo-Tooie was as big and expansive as it was due to internal competition at Rare. The Banjo-Tooie and Donkey Kong 64 teams wanted to see who could make the bigger, more content rich game.
Donkey Kong 64 was definitely a top tier N64 game. I think I played Banjo Tooie once and never again. But I also wasn't able to finish Banjo Kazooie until after it was re released on Xbox 360.
Oddly enough I played the kazooie, Tooie and DK 64 when visiting other people. I never played through and beat Banjo-kazooie and Banjo-Tooie until the release of Rare Replay! I prefer Kazooie over Tooie. I found Tooie to be occasionally frustrating.
Rare done did f1cked up on banjo nuts and bolts. Now that everybody has put them on blast lets hope they'll get their ish together and do a GOOD banjo.
Can't wait :D
This is good news! We need more solid platformers this gen, even if they are ports of past games.