GoldenEye 25 - Remaking the legend (and something more)

The time of HD justice for a beloved videogame, collectable, and legend has finally arrived! Well, not now, actually, but it certainly will in 2022 with the release of GOLDENEYE 25. What's all this about? It's a remake of the highly acclaimed GOLDENEYE 007 for Nintendo 64 set for the 25th anniversary of the 1997 James Bond game.

Trevelyan's Mainframe - FILE: Bunker, Severnaya / Twenty Years Removed

Now that you’re finished trudging through the snow, you have found yourself deep underground in Severnaya. If there is a stealthy bone in your body, now is the time to get it in working order. If you plan to survive and escape this Russian bunker alive, you’ll need to be smart about it… So, screw on your silencer and get ready. Alarms are within a hand’s reach, and so are plenty KF7 Soviet assault rifles, on level five of GOLDENEYE! 

Trevelyan's Mainframe - FILE: Surface, Severnaya / Twenty Years Removed

I hope you weren’t expecting a warm reception from this forthcoming level file, friend. You see, the snow covered surface surrounding Siberia’s Severnaya plateau region is among the harshest places to survive in the modern world. A true test of will, one might say. Perhaps for that reason, the Russian military’s space-based weapons division holds a remote station there that stands as the fourth level of GOLDENEYE 007. So, zipper up dear boy. After all, trespassers have been known to disappear underneath the miles of snow that never melts…

Trevelyan's Mainframe - FILE: Runway, Service / Twenty Years Removed

Unfortunately, old boy, we’re in a bit of a rush here. As the Russian army quickly scrambles to pick themselves up behind you, you must prepare to make your daring escape! Welcome to the service runway for the chemical warfare facility #2, though it doesn’t do anyone any good to stick around too long… So, prepare yourself. It is time to blaze through the brief-yet-action-packed third level of GOLDENEYE 007.

Trevelyan's Mainframe - FILE: Facility, Chemical Warfare / Twenty Years Removed

Well, well, well. That was fast! As you’ve zoomed through the first mission file of GOLDENEYE 007, I suppose I should allow you to explore the next. Janus operatives have confirmed your global signal and your codes have been received. The following is all we have on perhaps the most beloved mission of all, the Chemical Warfare Facility #2. It is located at the base of the Byelomorye Dam in the federal subject of Arkhangelsk of the USSR. The challenge is yours, if you’re up for it.

Trevelyan's Mainframe - FILE: Dam, Byelomorye / Twenty Years Removed

It seems you didn’t wander very far after all. Just as Janus expected! Well, seeing as you’re here and still perusing through the databases, I suppose I can grant you access to your first level file. Without further interruption, I give you all this mainframe has on the Byelomorye Dam, located in the federal subject of Arkangelsk of the USSR. Tread lightly, old boy.

Trevelyan's Mainframe - FILE: Anniversary, GoldenEye 007 / Twenty Years Removed

That is correct, friend! Trevelyan’s Mainframe is back from the dead, no longer just a disappeared feature on the main page of The GoldenEye Dossier. Reports of my death from the desks of the opposition were greatly exaggerated. Janus is alive and well and has been operating in the shadows for the last calendar year. The year 2016 might have been a year of great loss, but it was unable to claim this mainframe or the mind behind it! With no further interruptions and our databases primed and loaded, let us proceed. Just in time for the twentieth anniversary for the game rendition of GOLDENEYE for the NINTENDO 64 console? How apropos, no?

GoldenEra: The Story Behind GoldenEye 007

Australian-based company Rollercoaster Films is working on a documentary telling the story behind GOLDENEYE 007, the Nintendo 64 classic based on the 1995 film, celebrating its two decades in August.

Watch 30 minutes of GoldenEye 007 for XBLA

Rare Thief has published an exclusive video with never-before-seen footage of the GoldenEye 007 video game remake for the XBOX Live Arcade console. The game was set for a 2007 release, but due to copyright reasons it never saw the light.

GoldenEye: Source gets 5.0 update

GOLDENEYE: SOURCE is back with a vengance. Featuring updated graphics and maps, this HALF LIFE 2 mod brings you those memorable days of your childhood in the Nintendo 64 multiplayer mode to the screen of your PC.

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day dear fans. What could possibly go wrong today, eh? 

Introducing Trevelyan's Mainframe

Ladies and gentleman, we are happy to announce a new section for our blog, titled Trevelyan's Mainframe. In this column, Alec will be reviewing a lot of topics regarding GOLDENEYE: aspects of the film, the game, and the careers of the actors twenty years ahead of the film that meant the return of James Bond to the cinema screens.

GoldenEye 007 Face-off With Pierce Brosnan on The Tonight Show

We've seen Pierce Brosnan playing James Bond four times from 1995 to 2002. We also saw him playing James Bond in a few videogames using his voice and likeness. But we never saw him playing a video game with his 007 on it, until now, when Pierce played the 1997 videogame adaptation for GOLDENEYE on Jimmy Fallon's THE TONIGHT SHOW.

Happy Easter!

Have a wonderful Easter Sunday, GOLDENEYE enthisuasts!

The Lost Art of Interrogation: Yannick Zenhäusern Interview

He's really the man with the midas touch when it comes to rescore a Bond film we love or bring a modern touch to the classic GOLDENEYE 64 tunes for the Mod version of the 1997 classic, hence his nickname GoldenZen. Ladies and gentleman, this is Yannick Zenhäusern, best known his work  on GOLDENEYE: SOURCE and GoldenEye: Decrypted, a rescore of the 1995 James Bond film. In the following interview, we have some "chit-chat" with GoldenZen about it all: Bond, Serra, NIGHTFIRE: SOURCE and, of course, something on his upcoming GOLDFINGER project...

Merry Christmas Bond Fans!

Have a wonderful Christmas 007 enthusiasts. We sincerely hope you get plenty of surprises underneath your Christmas tree (not as good as the one on the image above, I guess)

GOLDENEYE 64 ORCHESTRATED - Rich Douglas' Take On a Classic Game Music

Many people from the Bond fandom surely heard of Rich Douglas, a great 007 fan and musican who has worked on many videogame projects like HARVEST and TAKEDOWN. He's also very famous because of his many fan creations in music he usually posted in the CommanderBond.net forums.

Now, Richard presents his take on the score of a videogame every enthusiastic of Ian Fleming's secret agent, retro-gaming and first person shooters will remember and love: GOLDENEYE 007, released 16 years ago for the Nintendo 64 game system.

NOT QUITE A LEGEND – 007 LEGENDS review

007 LEGENDS cover artwork - now you
can judge a game by its cover!

Note: for an unknown game glitch I’m stuck on a part of the MOONRAKER mission where I have to hack a WiFi port, but for some reason, every time I press “E” on my PC, the thing doesn’t works. I don’t even have the “Press E To Hack” disclaimer. I’ll review the game until this point.

While SKYFALL was a true 50^th Bond anniversary celebration, 007 LEGENDS, the latest James Bond game by Activision after QUANTUM OF SOLACE (2008), GOLDENEYE 007 (2010), BLOOD STONE (2010) and GOLDENEYE 007: RELOADED (2011), is quite a disappointment.

GOODBYE, MR. ACTIVISION? - Activision Might not Return for Another Bond Game

After the tremendous fail of 007 LEGENDS, that led to the close of developer Eurocom, Activision, the video game enterprise in charge of the James Bond videogames since 2008, could not return for another Bond video game.

Artwork for Activision's
GOLDENEYE 007 RELOADED.

Their Bond videogames QUANTUM OF SOLACE, BLOOD STONE and 007 LEGENDS were deleted from Steam and official site online catalog, which means they could have ended up their 007 contract originally due to end in 2014.

Thanks to James Bond Brasil for the alert.

GOLDENEYE: SOURCE - The True Ressurection for Rare's Game?

To be honest, I've never cared about GOLDENEYE: SOURCE. I've played some of COUNTER STRIKE or HALF LIFE in my early youth days, but this HALF LIFE 2 mod based on the Nintendo 64 1997 game never took my attention. It seemed so... unofficial.