June 26th, 2008 by Daniel Duncan

On March 13th, we reported that the Goldeneye Petition had surpassed 22,000 signatures. On Sunday June 22nd, the petition reached yet another landmark and broke 23,000 and is still gaining signatures for a current 23,095 at this very moment.

As we’ve mentioned here several times before, the Goldeneye Petition was produced by us here at Rare-Elite in early January after word of the game being cancelled for the Xbox LIVE Arcade surfaced from 1up. From there we began a small campaign to get word of the petition across the interwebs to gain signatures from Goldeneye fans across the world. During that two week duration, a fire was ignited and emblazoned in the hearts of Goldeneye supremists everywhere that caught the attention of many publications, people in Microsoft, and even Rare themselves.

‘Save Goldeneye e-mails poured into Major Nelson’s inbox, a brief mention in one of IGN’s podcasts, Xbox 360 magazine held a world exclusive that included images and a ton of detailed information on the game, and even a video of the Silo level spawned from some one within Rare on Youtube. See the video below…

Hope for the game releasing was shattered in the months to come, however. Word has it that Nintendo doesn’t wish for the game to be released on the Xbox 360 even though it would see a release on their Virtual Console as well. But all is not yet lost. Though the future for the title looks bleak, there is always that possibility that it will one day come to fruition.

If you would like to see Goldeneye, never give up. Sign the petition if you haven’t done so already, create videos, draw artwork, etc. Any thing that could be essential to the titles future is dire. We will gladly post anything you create for this endeavor. We haven’t given up here at Rare-Elite, have you?

If you have any of the above things that you would like to contribute (videos, artwork, letters, etc.), then e-mail them to me and I will not only post them here on the site, but will see to it that the peeps at Rare and Microsoft receive them as well. Thank you all for the support thus far!