The developers at Toys For Bob have been cooking something up for a little while now. We don’t know what that is quite yet, and hopefully, that changes at some point this year. However, a new interview with a studio head might have already pitched the idea to Microsoft that they wouldn’t mind picking up the Banjo-Kazooie IP next.
Toys For Bob has been around for a while, and you might know them from Skylanders or some of their revival works. If you don’t recall, they brought back Crash Bandicoot along with the Spyro franchises. However, it wasn’t long ago that they could spin off from Activision after the Microsoft acquisition. That allowed them to go independent. With more freedom to work on projects that interest the team, they partnered with the folks at Xbox.
As we already mentioned, this is an untitled project related to the Xbox game. Hopefully, we will learn more about it soon. However, a new interview has already requested interest in working with the Banjo-Kazooie franchise. This comes from the YouTube channel Canadian Guy Eh.
The channel interviewed Paul Yan, one of the studio’s heads. While the interview mainly discussed the focus on going independent, it did touch on what projects the studio would like to work on next. According to Yan, they have already established a great partnership with Xbox on their current game, and he would personally love to see the chance to work with the Banjo-Kazooie franchise.
Paul Yan noted that the IP has been hibernating too long, and if given the chance, it seems that the studio would love to bring this IP back into the limelight. I’m sure there is a massive fanbase hopeful that comes to fruition. After all, the last mainline installment from this franchise was Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, which was back in 2008.
