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Rare is not revamping its Nintendo catalogue for Xbox 360

Rumours about old games making their way into XBLA are untrue

Since the latest rumours about GoldenEye 007 being developed for Xbox Live Arcade, the gaming world has decided to just go crazy and start spreading unconfirmed information around as if it were real announcements. In the last three days, several websites have reported that Rare is working on different adaptations of their past hits to be released on the Xbox 360. Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct Gold, Jet Force Gemini, GoldenEye 007, Blast Corps, Perfect Dark and Conker’s Bad Fur Day would be the games planned for the Xbox Live Arcade, according to some people. Basically the whole N64 catalogue except for the Nintendo licences.

Well, this is just false.

As Rare fans learned with the latest Scribes edition for Rare’s official site, there are no plans for any new release or remake of the Banjo games for Xbox Live Arcade in the near future. “Let’s just get the new 360 game finished before we consider anything else” said the members of the Banjo 3 team back then. Knowing that, and reminding to everyone out there that the GoldenEye 007 rumours were actually about its cancellation and nothing else, there are no logical reasons to believe that Rare is working on downloadable versions of virtually every game they developed for Nintendo between 1995 and 2001.

How many free programmers do people think that they have to work on such a task anyway? A simple look at Rare’s recent launch schedule and Xbox Live Arcade releases would make it clear that this is a very unlikely possibility.

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