Topic: Yooka-Laylee

Soon.

There's a stream on at 4pm UK time (in just over 15 minutes) from Playtonic Games about this spiritual successor

They're promising a lot, hope they can deliver. The screens look pretty generic to me.

It's going to be a kickstarted. I know for sure I'll be pledging big time. This is what Kickstarter is about for me, giving to proven developers, not gambling on people that have never made a game before. A Wii U version will surely be a stretch goal from their comments.

"And out of about 500 emails we receive every week, probably about 499 of them are shouting Wii U! Wii U! As a games fan, I've been a Nintendo fanboy since the NES days. Most of are fans are Nintendo fans as well. So while we can't confirm what platforms we will be on - some of that is beyond our control - but we are developing on Unity and we don't want to leave anyone out. And we'd try to ship simultaneously to make the biggest splash possible when the game comes out."

Really looking forward to it provided there's a Wii U version.

It feels like a guarantee at this point since they're really considering amiibos.

Not necessarily given that some amiibo are completely useless in Wii U games like Megaman and Sonic.

They would be nuts not to make a Wii U version as it's the best market for this type of game. The goal will be there just how much will be the question.

If you don't want to give money, I hear they will be accepting non-perishable food donations.

In May I imagine we will see more photos (video?) of this, and if it looks good, this will be the first Kickstarter for a game that I will contribute too. Somehow.

I'll definitely support the Kickstarter if it looks good and there's a Wii U version confirmed. The Nintendo bias during the Q&A does make it seem likely though mentioning amiibo made me cringe given how rare everything post-wave 1 is.

The screenshots look great! I'm looking forward to this game.

Some people have noticed that near the bottom left of that screenshot you can see some sort of snake or something:

Looks a lot like the character teased on the website!

Given that the topic of the question was about collectable figurines of their characters I interpreted it as they wanted amiibo of their characters. Could be wrong though.

Where is it?! I must be blind and it's killing me!

As for amiibo, they probably meant working with Nintendo to add functionality to, say, the Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong figurines. Which would be more than fine by me.

EDIT: Saw it! Looks more like a frog to me, which would definitely fit with the first teaser image of the characters' eyes.

Eh, can't really tell if it's just a bunch of plants or something. lol

I personally think the logo in the lower right looks an awful lot like Rares logo. I like!

There's definitely a snake in the bottom left corner. Or well.. SOME kind of reptile at least.
These screenshots really look like the CG art from the old DKC manuals and box covers.
Or is that just me?

A madagascar gecko, but they could've made it up themselves as well.

So Rare apparently made a prototype Kinect Banjo-Kazooie game (2015 SXSW Gaming Awards).

EDIT: http://monotonecritic.com/2015/03/14/rare-shows-new-banjo-kaz... points out that Rare did not create the demo, but still, if this is all what will come of Banjo-Kazooie in the future, then it's still tragic.

So on March 14, 2015, Banjo Kazooie died with Rare and was reborn with Playtonic Games.

That bottom picture just looks so wrong!