Microsoft has an answer to Nintendo’s Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort package.

This is what happens when Cranky Kong gets tired of giving Donkey Kong tips.

Unlike previous Banjo-Kazooie games, Nuts and Bolts is not a platformer.  Or rather, it’s not just a platformer.  Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts is vehicle creation game.  The game presents itself through a series of short missions. Most of these missions can only be completed with the aid of vehicles.   Luckily for me and [...]

Late last night Microsoft put a demo of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Before you download the 1 GB file forget all the jumping you did in the Nintendo 64 Banjo-Kazooie games. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is about building vehicles and using them in challenges to earn jigsaw pieces. While the [...]

Rare may never make another Killer Instinct again, but you can see Black Orchid again if you have Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise and an Xbox Vision camera. Three Killer Instinct Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise cards are up online for everyone to download, print, and use to put Fulgore, or “a suitable Piñata approximation [...]

I’m sure this news is everywhere now, but if you haven’t heard you get Banjo-Kazooie for Xbox Live Arcade for free and a few weeks early if you pre-order Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. The press release didn’t say which retailers were participating in the promotion. We asked a Microsoft representative and found out Gamestop, Amazon, [...]

Brandon Sheffield from Insert Credit asked me why Banjo moved so slowly while I was playing the E3 demo. I didn’t have an answer for him at the time, but after completing a few puzzle piece challenges I figured it out. Rare designed Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts as a game where you drive you-construct-them vehicles [...]

I'm sitting under the green lights at the Microsoft press conference waiting for it to start. Before attendees take a seat there is a chance to scribble drawings or web addresses that are projected on the screen. So far its been rated G.   In a video of "Xbox 360 street talk" people interviewed on [...]

In a first for a Microsoft gaming franchise, Viva Pinata will have new installments on the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo DS out in North America this September. THQ hasn’t announced a concrete date for Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise, but Microsoft confirmed Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise will come out on September 2nd in North [...]

Touch screen controls probably fit Viva Pinata better than a cursor controlled by an analog stick. We'll find out soon if this is an accurate assessment when THQ publishes Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise on the Nintendo DS. The portable version will go on sale this fall, around the same time as Viva Pinata: Trouble in [...]

Banjo-Kazooie is Microsoft’s family oriented holiday title for the Xbox 360 this year. It’s scheduled to come out in November with user generated content as a key feature. Instead of building stages, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts gives the bird-meets-bear-in-a backpack mascot character a set of tools. Player place wheels, wings, springs, egg guns and engines [...]

Rare is working on a follow up to the commercially unsuccessful, albeit charming Viva Piñata this year. Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise will arrive in stores this September with a co-op mode for two gardeners. Thirty two new kinds of piñatas populate the magical island, which bumps the number of species (including troublesome sour piñatas) [...]

GoldenEye 007 is arguably the best first person shooter on the Nintendo 64 and it’s probably the best game to use the James Bond license. Rare gave up working on the game many years ago, but since GoldenEye 007 is fondly remembered a community picked up the slack. The GoldenEye Vault is home to a [...]

  Remember the days when we were kids and idolized ninjas? Tenchu on the Playstation granted us the chance by putting players into the shoes of these secretive figures and sneaking up on innocent guards in the dark with its excellent stealth system.   Despite its less than stellar outings on the PS2/DS, I have [...]

Another week, another retro title on Xbox Live Arcade. But wait! This isn’t just your average retro titled shoehorned into the XBLA universe. This one has been completely redone with fancy new graphics and a ton of new… everything. New enemies, items, weapons and levels. It’s really a complete re-imagining of the original title. Problem [...]

There were rumors that Konami’s galactic shmup Gyruss was going to be this week since it has a March 2007 release date on the Xbox Live page, but fret not. Microsoft announced that the last game coming out in March is Jetpac Refuelled a remake of Rare’s Jetpac with Xbox Live co-op play for two [...]