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This adorable upcoming platformer is a love letter to video games where the world is broken by design: "If players can imagine an approach and the mechanics support it, it’ll probably work"

Big in 2026 | Bradley the Badger is "both a fun action-adventure and a story about video games" where "there's rarely a single right solution"

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Banjo-Kazooie is BACK ... sort of — 'Banjo Recompiled' for PC brings widescreen, high framerates, and Steam Deck support

Banjo-Kazooie has been recompiled into a native PC release using a fan led project called Banjo Recompiled. The N64 classic now runs on Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck with modern features.

Windows Central

"We're going to try and be more consistent with what we do": The head of Xbox Game Studios on the Developer Direct reveals, multiplatform strategy, and hard lessons learned from 2025

Exclusive Interview | Craig Duncan sets the stage for Xbox's most important year of the generation

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"It gave us more opportunities for variety": How Banjo-Kazooie helped the Nintendo 64 compete with PlayStation

Interview | Banjo creators Chris Sutherland, Ed Bryan, Gavin Hood, Gary Richards and Steve Malpass explain how the series evolved

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After 44 years as second banana, Donkey Kong Bananza makes Nintendo's first star a mascot to rival Mario and Link in the Switch 2 era

Year in Review 2025 | Donkey Kong Bananza once again shows that Nintendo's greatest strength is its knack for reinvention

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Banjo-Kazooie creator reveals that the mythical "Stop 'N' Swop" feature was originally bigger than we ever knew, with Donkey Kong 64 being a planned part of the process

It would've brought Donkey Kong to Banjo-Tooie's multiplayer mode too

GamesRadar

"I did not see it coming. I was absolutely blindsided" — star of Xbox's canceled Perfect Dark reboot and the next Tomb Raider shares her "devastating" story

Actress Alix Wilton-Regan was starring in Xbox's now-canceled Perfect Dark reboot, and has now told her story about how "devastating" it was when the axe came down on the project.

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Love rare cameras? This limited edition card game would make an ideal stocking stuffer –or a post-Christmas dinner distraction

Camera Quartet is a card game themed around camera rarities from the likes of Nikon, Leica and Hasselblad

Digital Camera World

Xbox breaks my heart every day there's no Banjo-Threeie announcement, but this Banjo-Kazooie fan game fills the gap and even has praise from Rare and the OG devs: "Incredible work"

Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania lives in Dreams

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The Banjo-Kazooie Sequel We’ve Wanted For 17 Years Is Finally Here — But It’s On PlayStation

A dedicated Banjo-Kazooie fan has made a new Banjo game using PlayStation's dreams, earning accolades from the series creators.

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A new Banjo Kazooie game is here ... sort of, and it's not on Xbox

A small team of fans has created an unofficial, yet amazing new Banjo-Kazooie game — but it's only playable on PlayStation, through Dreams.

Windows Central

Before Banjo-Kazooie's mascot was a bear and after he was a human, the N64 icon was actually a rabbit, according to a former Rare developer

"We went from a boy to a rabbit for about a week"

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GoldenEye 007 had a "strong influence" on Banjo-Kazooie's sequel because Rare devs spent "probably every lunchtime for a couple of years" playing the N64 FPS

"It just felt like the next logical step"

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Sea of Thieves players are roasting Rare like Captain Flameheart for delaying season 18: "Seasons may be delayed but these 'season delayed' drops are always on time"

Dang, no mercy

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Rare's canceled Everwild has finally been revealed with never-before-seen screenshots showing the game's world, UI, and more

The first screenshots of Rare's canceled action-adventure game Everwild have appeared online, giving us a glimpse of the game's progress before it was scrapped by Xbox.

Inverse

We Just Got A Rare Look At Xbox’s Leaked Game That You'll Never Get To Play

Months after 'Everwild' was canceled, a former artist has shared screenshots of Xbox's pacifistic adventure game.

Windows Central

Rare’s cancelled game has surfaced — Everwild screenshots reveal the game we never got

Screenshots from a former Rare artist give us our first real look at Everwild, Xbox’s cancelled fantasy adventure that promised a natural, magical world before its troubled development led to cancellation

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Iconic voice behind Donkey Kong's "oh banana" says he only did it because he "got so sick of asking" others to do the voice acting, and he "never thought" Nintendo would still be using it 25 years later

"I never thought they’d really use it"

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Inverse

40 Years Later, Xbox's Most Interesting Studio Deserves Better

Rare's 40th anniversary feels bittersweet due to the recent challenges within the innovative developer and the dire circumstances surrounding its parent company.

Benzinga

Ionis Pharmaceuticals To Expedite Development Of Rare Neurological Disease Candidate With FDA Breakthrough Status

On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s (NASDAQ:IONS) ION582 for Angelman syndrome (AS), a rare neurological disorder.

Benzinga

FDA Outlines Process To Speed Up Rare Disease Therapy Approvals

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday introduced the Rare Disease Evidence Principles (RDEP) to provide greater speed and predictability in the review of therapies intended to treat rare diseases with very small patient populations.

Inverse

James Bond's '007 First Light' Is Already The Spy Video Game I've Sorely Missed

'First Light' marks the return of a genre that's been missing in action for years, and we couldn't be more excited.

TechRadar

Rare is getting a limited edition 8BitDo controller for its 40th anniversary, and I can't help but feel bittersweet about it

Amidst Everwild and Perfect Dark's cancellations, legendary British developer Rare is at least getting a cool 40th anniversary 8BitDo controller.

GamesRadar

Weeks after canceling Everwild and laying off developers, Xbox puts on a smile to celebrate Rare's 40-year legacy with a red hat in Sea of Thieves and a swanky controller

The fact that the Perfect Dark reboot was also canceled just adds to the cruel irony

Benzinga

Ultragenyx Represents 'Intriguing Buying Opportunity,' Despite Recent Setbacks

HC Wainwright assumed coverage on Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:RARE) on Monday, representing an attractive opportunity at current levels.

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