{"id":679388,"date":"2026-07-07T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:44:12","slug":"its-a-franchise-we-love-toys-for-bob-keen-to-work-with-xbox-on-banjo-kazooie-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679388\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s A Franchise We Love’ – Toys For Bob Keen To Work With Xbox On Banjo-Kazooie Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks over at Toys for Bob are busy working on Spyro: A Realm Reborn<\/a> for Xbox right now, which we absolutely can’t wait for, but they’ve also indicated their interest in bringing back one of the most classic Rare IPs of all time.<\/p>\n

Yes, the Crash Bandicoot 4<\/a> and Spyro Reignited Trilogy<\/a> studio is keen to work on a new Banjo-Kazooie game if the opportunity arises, as discussed by the Associate Creative Director (Louis Studdert) and Studio Head (Paul Yan) of Toys for Bob on a recent episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair were specifically asked about Banjo, and had the following to say:<\/p>\n

“It’s a franchise we love. As platformer fans, Banjo’s top of the heap. We have some huge, huge fans of that franchise on our staff – I’m talking, they’ve got the Jiggie as their profile pic, kind of a thing. They’re that level of fan. If the opportunity ever arose, that would be amazing. We love the franchise.”<\/p>\n

“If you look at the through-line of the types of games we like to make, I can imagine that’s part of that staple as well. I think of [those characters] as timeless. They’re iconic, and I think the types of games we want to produce are ones that speak to a timeless place in the player as well, an ageless place – we call it the “inner child”. So, I think they’re wonderful games, we’re huge fans.”<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, Xbox has never appeared interested in revitalising the Banjo IP since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts<\/a> in 2008, and it remains to be seen what new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma thinks of the series’ future potential.<\/p>\n

It’s surely going to be a while before Toys for Bob can do anything regardless, as they’ve still got a lot of work to finish on Spyro: A Realm Reborn. Nevertheless, they’re clearly interested in the prospect, and unless Xbox has already got Rare working on a new Banjo game, we reckon the Spyro developer is the perfect fit for a series reboot.<\/p>\n

Should Toys For Bob Make A New Banjo-Kazooie Game? (263 votes)
\nYes!75%Maybe, but perhaps it should be given to Rare?16%I’m not personally interested, but it still seems a good idea…3%No, I don’t think so to be honest!4%Other2%<\/p>\n

What do you reckon? Would you like to see this? Let us know in the poll above and comments below.<\/p>\n

[source youtube.com<\/a>, via frvr.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Fraser<\/p>\n

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The folks over at Toys for Bob are busy working on Spyro: A Realm Reborn for Xbox right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118767,59,86,226839,56,54,55,183],"class_list":["post-679388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-banjo-kazooie","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-toys-for-bob","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}