Former core members of Rare have announced they are working on a new game. The team's new studio, Playtonic Games, plans to reveal details of its upcoming game "Project Ukulele" later this week.

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Playtonic is aiming to turn its new project into a "worthy spiritual successor" to games team members helped build in the past, games like Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooie , and Viva Pinata.The Playtonic team includes the programmer of Donkey Kong Country, the character designer behind both Banjo and Kazooie, and the artist "who made your console fit to burst with lavish environments" across several Rare games over the course of a decade.This isn't the first time such a project has been planned. In 2012, a group that includes Banjo series composer Grant Kirkhope and artist Steven Hurst began work on a spiritual successor to Banjo Tooie. Playtonic promises it's "making a real, proper, actual game," and will reveal more details as they become available on its Twitter page. No further details have been revealed by Playtronic, but the studio says it plans to listen to fan feedback and will use the feedback to help steer the direction of the final product.Keep checking IGN for more on this upcoming game as it becomes available.

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