The Microsoft-owned studio had developed an Xbox Live Arcade port of the game but was unable to successfully acquire the rights from Nintendo, which originally published GoldenEye 007.

Back in 2008 Rare was developing an HD remaster of its N64 FPS classic GoldenEye 007 to be released on XBLA. Unfortunately, copyright disputes with Nintendo saw the project shuttered.

The site insists that Rare has signed a deal with current Bond licence holder Activision and that the classic N64 FPS will be released for Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service with updated visuals.

‘GoldenEye 007’ almost had a remake on Xbox Live Arcade in 2008 A decade after developer Rare released GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64, the studio started planning a remaster for Xbox Live Arcade.

Here’s what Goldeneye would have looked like on the Xbox 360. There are a handful of video game classics from the Nintendo 64. One of those video game titles was 007 GoldenEye, a first-person ...

GoldenEye 007 was based on the 1995 James Bond spy film “GoldenEye” and was the third best-selling game for the Nintendo 64, behind Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.

It seems this version was set to be a XBLA title, and while no developer was named, Rare did an XBLA remaster of Perfect Dark, so this might have come straight from the source pf the original game.

Microsoft Game Studios has told Eurogamer that it has no plans to release GoldenEye on Xbox Live Arcade. It also rubbished recent reports by Xbox World 360 magazine, which promised to unveil the ...

According to this, Xbox World mag in the UK is hinting with about as much subtlety as a drunk elephant that it has the scoop on an XBLA version of GoldenEye. "Next Wednesday, in Xbox World 360 ...

Making up the Class of 2025 are: Defender, the 1981 arcade game that raised the bar on difficulty; Tamagotchi, the digital pets that bridged toys and video games; GoldenEye 007, whose four-person mode ...