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The canceled  GoldenEye Xbox 360 remaster that’s recently been leaked to YouTube (and to torrents) was actually shuttered by Nintendo and not over a rights issue with the IP’s license holder, two of its developers have confirmed. Speaking with VGC (which also provided this post’s images), co-project leads Mark Edmonds and Chris Tilston said the decision to shelve the title was made by Nintendo, the publisher of the original GoldenEye release on N64. “Nintendo reached out to Microsoft via our contact there [producer Ken Lobb], who we’d done a lot of games with before,” Tilston ...

© MGM/Eon GoldenEye 007 has been back in the news lately. We've known for a long time that Rare planned an Xbox Live Arcade remake of the acclaimed shooter and, courtesy of Youtuber Graslu00, we recently got a full look at what that could have looked like. Since then, several people have managed to get their hands on the leaked remaster and play it themselves, either on modded Xbox 360 systems or via emulation. As you might expect, the emergence of "GoldenEye XBLA" has led many to speculate on why it never happened. The complex rights relating to the game (it was commissioned by Nintendo and...