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*UPDATE*BREAKING! Official Banjo-Kazooie Website launches

March 19th, 2008 by hylian1

It’s happening. With Banjo-Kazooie 360’s 2008 release speedily approaching, Microsoft/Rare have launched the official Banjo-Kazooie website. Although it currently showcases nothing more than a blue print with gears, what appears to be a boat propellor, and spinning Jiggy in the middle of the page with Banjo’s head and the words ‘coming soon’ alternating inside the Jiggy, we expect that we’ll be seeing some updates to this site fairly soon. If not, then during/after this years Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in mid-July.

*UPDATE* After searching through the site’s source code, it appears that it will have quite the features available including its own Forums, Blog, Leaderboards and Newsletters We’ll keep you up-to-date on any further findings as we continue to investigate.

12 Responses to “*UPDATE*BREAKING! Official Banjo-Kazooie Website launches”

  1. Jason Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    I’m 99.99% sure that the source code that mentions PhotoMode is there for the Omniture service that Microsoft uses to track page views and downloads on some of their sites. If you check the source of the Gears of War website, this exact code is near the bottom of the page.

  2. hylian1 Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Ah Okay. Thanks for that Jason. I’ll remove that portion

  3. Crystal Bear Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Interesting.

    But I refuse to download Microsoft Silverlight. No way.

  4. Deekman Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Sounds awsome I just wish there was more to the website than just this

  5. Banjo-Conker Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Heh, nice. What caught my eye, specifically, was a frightened bear. Breaks your heart, doesn’t it?

  6. RARE uprising Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    whoah u can see banjo in the Jiggy how cool and i wonder if the blueprint background has anything to do with the game

    thatnks for the heads up hylian

  7. ->Eazygoin' Says:
    March 19th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    What is microsoft silverlight?

  8. Lupaie Says:
    March 20th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    Cooool, I hope they include RSS :) So I dont have to check every hour.
    —

    Silverlight:

    Some kind of streaming videoservice. Also used for the technology behind the Videomarketplace. Microsoft and NBC will also use it for the Olympics so that users can make/create their own broadcast. Its a kind of advanced flash programme with more videotools.

    —

  9. Lupaie Says:
    March 20th, 2008 at 1:27 am

    ow yeah…so we can assume that the name will NOT be Banjo Threeie or something like that. Else they would have chosen that URL. No sir…Its BANJO-KAZOOIE (as is should be :) )

  10. Lupaie Says:
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Update: Rare has contacted CVG to inform us that, while the teaser site is currently thin on content, it will be updated soon. Rare community manager, George Kelion, told CVG: “Like the game, the teaser site is still under construction and you can expect updates relatively soon.” Fingers on the F5 button, then.

  11. Banjo-Conker Says:
    March 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Sounds good, Lupaie. Thanks for the heads-up. ;)

  12. ->Eazygoin' Says:
    March 20th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Cheers

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