Toys For Bob has stated it will like to work on a brand new Banjo-Kazooie sport.
In an interview with content material creator ‘Canadian Man Eh’, Toys For Bob studio head Paul Yan was requested which builders or IP would the studio like to work on.
“There’s so many, and that’s one of many thrilling prospects of being impartial,” stated Yan.
“One firm we’d wish to work with is one we’re already working with; Workforce Xbox. They’ve been a terrific companion and so they even have a really attention-grabbing roster of characters that Toys for Bob might have a number of enjoyable with. The honey bear is the primary one which involves thoughts. I feel all of us can agree Banjo’s been hibernating lengthy sufficient, proper?”
The Uncommon-owned platformer hasn’t seen an instalment since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, which was launched for Xbox 360 15 years in the past.
Nonetheless, the traditional franchise has been extra distinguished in recent times. Final 12 months, the primary sport within the sequence was added to Nintendo Change On-line, and Banjo and Kazooie had been added as playable characters to Tremendous Smash Bros Final.
In 2020, Spencer stated that any revivals of traditional Uncommon franchises had been as much as Uncommon itself. Nonetheless, chatting with VGC this summer time as a part of an prolonged interview to mark Banjo-Kazooie’s 25th anniversary, a gaggle of unique Uncommon crew members stated they weren’t anticipating a brand new sport anytime quickly.
Regardless of a $3 million Kickstarter and over 1 million copies offered for his or her non secular successor, Playtonic Video games’ Yooka-Laylee, composer Grant Kirkhope questioned whether or not the viewers was actually there for a brand new sport.
Toys for Bob was based in 1989 and developed such video games as Star Management, Pandemoniom and The Unholy Battle earlier than it was acquired by Activision in 2005.
Lately, the California studio has assisted with growth on the Name of Responsibility sequence, however is finest referred to as the studio behind the Skylanders sequence, in addition to 2020’s Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time and 2018’s Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
