For about the last seven years, Grant Kirkhope has been trying to convince people in the gaming industry that it’s time to make a game similar to 1998’s Banjo-Kazooie, one of the great 3D platformers ...

Salvatore Fileccia, lead programmer of Rare's Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, has said his game isn't in direct competition with Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet, despite the two platformers sharing a ...

When putting together this top 10 of the most influential banjo players of all time, we needed to make a decision. Do we consider everybody that plays a stringed instrument with a drum for a body, or ...

Update [Fri 5th Dec 2025, 5am]: Dreams creator Eupholace’s absurdly good Banjo-Kazooie fan game went viral on social media this week, and has even attracted attention from series creator Rare. Writing ...

Did you hear the one about the banjo player who got all the gigs? Well, it’s no joke, the banjo is back, and it couldn’t be more popular. A mainstay of trad jazz, bluegrass and folk, the banjo’s ...

Now, with two decades and a monumental list of musical achievements piled to his name, Kirkhope is back on Banjo-Kazooie and revisiting the soundtrack’s iconic tunes for an album of remixes called – ...