Scribes – February 28th 2007

It's the stupid Rare letters page! Send us your mail! Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty, you're listening to the boy from the big bad city!

Scribes – December 8th 2006

It's the stupid Rare letters page! Send us your mail! Stand tall like a man, headstrong like a horse!

Scribes – October 24th 2006

It's the stupid Rare letters page! Send us your mail! You wanna be a gunslinger, don't be a rock singer!

Banjo-Kazooie Review

A young comedian, Demitri Martin once said that to make a mythical creature, you just take a regular animal and give it wings. A lion becomes a griffon. A horse becomes a pegasus. A hawk becomes a double hawk. And a bear would become Banjo-Kazooie. This platform game for the Nintendo 64 takes Super Mario […]

Banjo-Kazooie Review

November 1997. Rare puts ten characters head-to-head in arguably the best racing game created for the N64. Among those characters is Banjo, a honey bear sporting bright yellow shorts and a blue backpack. Little did he know that a year on from his racing debut, he’ll be glued to a red-feathered, loud-mouth and spun off […]

Dream Compositions

As we’ve explained before in our comprehensive Beta Guide, Banjo-Kazooie went through a lot of interesting changes before it wound up looking and even sounding like the classic adventure that stands before us today. Before we could even begin collecting large golden jigsaw pieces or stuffing birds unorthodoxly into backpacks, Rare was hard at work […]

Scribes – May 5th 2006

It's the stupid Rare letters page! Send us your mail! Let's make a journey to the cave of monsters!