Xbox hasn’t released a new game in the series since 2008’s Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, a game which failed to really capture the elements that fans loved about the first 2 games on N64.

"There's this whole library from the N64, like Banjo-Kazooie," Ruckdeschel says, "but also PlayStation with Crash Bandicoot. We didn't want to copy it, but we love it, we loved those games." ...