Developer Playtonic is made up of ex-Rare staff and they are working on a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, currently known as Project Ukulele.
But leaving Rare doesn't mean they have lost contact with their old friends and in an interview with The Guardian, studio head Gavin Price, who worked at Rare for 20 years, has plenty of interesting stuff to tell:
"I still chat to them, I know what they were working on when I left last year. It sounds really good."
And there doesn't seem to be any animosity from Playtonic's side and he continues:
"I want them to do well. They're mates and we left them behind to come and do this. I'm looking forward to what they're doing next - people will be really happy to see it."
Despite the general opinion that since Microsoft bought Rare the studio's output hasn't matched their past glories, Playtonic technical director Jens Restemeier doesn't fault MS.
"For me, it was more about [Rare founders] Tim and Chris Stamper leaving. There was no sense of progression about what the company was going to do from that point on. The story people want to hear is that Microsoft came in and destroyed everything. It wasn't like that. They gave us freedom, almost more freedom than Nintendo gave us."
Microsoft is expected to reveal the next Rare title during this year's E3 in June.