A few days ago, an eagle-eyed user onNeoGAF spottedsomething interesting in a screenshot of aBanjo-Tooiepremium Xbox 360 theme, posted by online by Rare.
As you can see in the close up above, this particular user has been playingBanjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts,Death Tank, the Xbox LIVE Arcade version ofBanjo-Tooie, and… wait… what’s that? Is that an icon ofJoanna Darkfrom the Nintendo 64 version of Perfect Dark? So let’s jump to conclusions — maybe Rare is prepping an XBLA version ofPerfect Dark! Hey, they recently “ported” over two Nintendo 64 games,Banjo-Kazooieand the upcomingBanjo-Tooie, right? It could happen.
But here’s what we know, based on what our sources tell us: the icon you’re seeing is for a game that’s internally called “Bean.” No, we’re not exactly surewhatit is, but this is the same game that was rumored to be the (reportedly) canceledGoldenEyeXBLA title. Early last year, a Web site calledXbox Evolvedreported something similar on a “Bean Project,” saying that the game looks “very similar toGoldenEye, although some models, and other parts of the game are a bit different.”
We can’t verify that last bit, but wecanverify with 100% certainty that the icon you see above is for something called “Bean,” and that folks at Rare were playing it as recently as November of last year. With E3 coming up, if Rare and Microsoft do have something to announce, perhaps we’ll know sooner rather than later.
