{"id":111337,"date":"2020-04-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/playtonic_games_isnt_working_on_a_new_banjo-kazooie_game_despite_the_rumours"},"modified":"2020-04-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:00:00","slug":"playtonic-games-isnt-working-on-a-new-banjo-kazooie-game-despite-the-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/09\/playtonic-games-isnt-working-on-a-new-banjo-kazooie-game-despite-the-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Playtonic Games Isn&#8217;t Working On A New Banjo-Kazooie Game, Despite The Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a51c57cafa8e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a51c57cafa8e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Banjo Kazooie\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a51c57cafa8e\/banjo-kazooie.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2a51c57cafa8e\/banjo-kazooie.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Banjo Kazooie\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Ever since Banjo and Kazooie were officially confirmed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> fighters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/banjo-kazooie_confirmed_for_super_smash_bros_ultimate_this_fall\">last summer<\/a>, rumours and speculation surrounding new games and remasters for Rare&#8217;s legendary series have been doing the rounds online. One such rumour suggests that Playtonic, a studio housing plenty of ex-Rare staff, is helping Rare, Microsoft, or both to create a new title.<\/p>\n<p>Today, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/no_playtonic_games_isnt_making_a_new_banjo-kazooie_or_joining_microsoft\">not for the first time<\/a>, Playtonic Games has taken to social media to gently let down any fans believing such rumours to be true.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"4.5790697674419\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"4.3235294117647\">They&#8217;re rumours.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t working on a new Banjo game. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re clarifying this because we don&#8217;t like the idea of fans getting their hopes up. Sorry. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p7GSpF07jG\">https:\/\/t.co\/p7GSpF07jG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Playtonic (@PlaytonicGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlaytonicGames\/status\/1248191489441759232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Playtonic says, &#8220;it&#8217;s never fun to come out and say these things, but we&#8217;re trying to avoid hopes being pinned on us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yooka-laylee_and_the_impossible_lair\"><strong>Yooka-Laylee<\/strong><\/a> developer really <em>is<\/em> currently up to is being kept under wraps for now, but it might be best to avoid dreaming about any brand new Banjo-Kazooie games guh-huh-ing onto your Switch. Is guh-huh-ing a word? <em>It is now.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Banjo and Kazooie were officially confirmed as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighters last summer, rumours and speculation surrounding new games and remasters for Rare&#8217;s legendary series have been doing the rounds online. One such rumour suggests that Playtonic, a studio housing plenty of ex-Rare staff, is helping Rare, Microsoft, or both to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}