The folks over at Game Explain take some time to talk about Project Ukulele, the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, being developed entirely by ex-Rare staff.
Tencent Acquire Playtonic Minority Stake - Playtonic are looking toward a busy and exciting future with Tencent on board to drive development
Tencent seem to be getting involved in a lot of different developers but always with fairly small shares.
Companies need to open their eyes to what both Tencent and china is doing..
could you please explain what is China doing? I don't know much context. Why Chinese company buying a studio is bad and not American companies globally? It's an honest question.
@solideagle The concern is not about Chinese people, it is about Chinese businesses that have to strongly comply with the wishes of the Chinese government or face severe penalties, both on the companies financially and their ability to operate and the individuals who could face imprisonment.
In practice this mean the freedom to create art is restricted in different ways; criticism of the Chinese government or people is not allowed as well as promotion of LGBTQ issues and prominence of ethnic minorities of colour.
The profits from Chinese businesses are potentially so massive that’s why you see American companies like Disney and Paramount and Apple increasingly censoring their content to secure Chinese money.
The big difference is many Chinese corporations are in bed with the Chinese government, a government which is incredibly corrupt and evil. I try my best to not support them.
Not just companies. We all need to be aware. China's continued development of ASAT systems and hypersonic weapons should be alarming to everyone. They now have first strike capabilities and could easily destabilize the East-Asia region.
So whether it's Tencent, ByteDance or whatever, I don't want any of it. I won't support them.
The studio ends speculation it’s in discussions to work on Rare IP.
Y’all couldn’t even get the first Yookah-Laylee to feel better today than the first two Banjo-Kazooie games
Banjo Threeie could be amazing
Just please write Banjo Nuts and Bolts off as a joke that never happened
I do hope Playtonic do another full on 3D platformer going off the feedback from Yooka Laylee, we need a true sequel, not the 2.5D one they did
Not really, it was okay but it was a new IP, probably would have been better as a new IP least then you could cut it some slack.
Banjo Threeie needs to happen. A proper main numbered game.
Wish they'd get the rights to Conker and Banjo, tbh I think I'd rather see a new Conker, since there's little/no adult games like that.
MS is obviously going to do jack spit with those games, pointless even owning the rights to them.
A playtonic conker won't have the same feel to it. Robin Beanland(composer) is with rare not playtonic.
Beanland did conker, jet force gemini, killer instinct, sea of thieves music. Most of the old banjo team is with playtonic now(same people that created banjo on cars)
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is the next title in Playtonic's platforming franchise. If you're good enough, this game is a speedrunner's dream.
Definitely getting that Banjo-Kazooie vibe from the image. With Grant Kirkhope and the rest of the ex-Rare staff, I'm sure this will be something to look forward to.
I'd love another platformer as good as Banjo again. That is, if Rare isn't already making a new one.
Not interested, will wait for the real thing from MS/Rare.