As you’re no doubt all intensely aware, we at Rare have a few Banjo bits and bobs that we’re preparing to sling down the intertubes straight into your Xbox 360s.
By now you’ll have gotten the full skinny on L.O.G.’s Lost Challenges, the Premium Game Add-On for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts that will be available to download from Xbox LIVE Marketplace on April 7th, so I won’t retread old ground. No, I’m talking about brand new cool stuff, lovingly crafted here in Twycross as a service to you, our long-suffering supremely loyal fans.
Want to know the best part about it? These babies are completely free. Yes my friends, that’s free as in beer – not free as in speech. However, there is a catch: the goodies will only be available to download from LIVE Marketplace for a limited time, after which they’ll disappear – phhht! – just like that.
First up, it’s come to our attention that you’ve all really taken to the old-school precision platforming in Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World. So, to celebrate the addition of brand new levels as part of L.O.G.’s Lost Challenges, we’ll also be giving away a set of free Limited Edition Gamerpics to give your online gaming persona a nice little makeover.
These retro-tastic morsels will be released day and date with L.O.G.’s Lost Challenges on Tuesday 7th April, but you’ll only have a seven-day window in which to grab them. Add them to your Gamer profile and you’ll be able to swear you were there.
Our next gesture of free love (as opposed to free as in love) is the release of two Limited Edition Banjo-Tooie themed Gamerpics. These will only be available for download from 10th – 14th April, that’s, like, less than a week, guys! You’d better be bringing your A-game if you want to own these bad boys.
Notice something slightly... unusual about those Gamerpics? Unexpected and new, even? Well, good for you, you’ve got much better eyesight than Bottles. Now we’re going to be all Rare about it and not give you any further hints for a while.
Lastly, we’ll be releasing a very special Easter-themed trailer for the high-definition release of Banjo-Tooie on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. As we all know, Easter doesn’t last forever and neither does this trailer – you’ll only be able to get your mitts on it from 10th – 14th April, just like the Easter-themed Gamerpics.
Without wanting to send you on too much of an Easter Egg hunt, it comes to us on good authority that if you combine what fresh info you can glean from the Easter Banjo-Tooie Gamerpics with the contents of the Easter Banjo-Tooie trailer, you should be able to work out some pretty big clues to soon-to-be-revealed secrets.
We also have some premium Gamerpics and a Dashboard Theme on the way to mark the release of Banjo-Tooie on Xbox LIVE Arcade, about which we’ll be sharing more info in due course. Now you’re probably wondering when we’ll be announcing the release date for Banjo-Tooie on Xbox LIVE Arcade... well, you won’t have to wait much longer as an announcement is just around the corner.
Until then, don’t you have some secrets you should be trying to uncover?
For additional information on Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, you can visit both the publisher’s site and the developer’s site.