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Being a European Community Manager, I will always have that soft spot in my heart for the European games industry. Ben, the new Community Manager for Rare, had been one of the first friends I had ever made in the UK games in...
| Hollie Bennett |
While everyone was shouting about Duke Nukem Forever at PAX, Rare and Microsoft quietly announced two new modes for the upcoming Kinect Sports -- boxing and "Party Play."Boxing is, well… it's boxing. You'll work up a ...
| Nick Chester |
Rare's George Andreas has revealed that his studio, along with Microsoft Game Studios head Peter Molyneux, pushed for at least one button to accompany Microsoft's HD Wii. According to Andreas, his team was "very vocal" about ...
| Jim Sterling |
Rare has been kicking around for about 25 years, and despite having a low or two recent years, it has had a great impact on gaming. Known for being a bit camera shy, Rare tends to hold its secrets close to its chest. That's n...
| Tony Ponce |
Earlier this week, we reported that MundoRare has closed its doors forever due to Rare's corporate bullshit. The fan community had planned to reignite its love for the fallen company by creating a free documentary to be distr...
| Jim Sterling |
It's no secret that Rare has suffered one of gaming's most trafic falls from grace. Once considered the cream of the British developer drop, Rare's eventual subjugation by Microsoft and subsequent software output pretty much ...
| Jim Sterling |
Rare has announced that Perfect Dark XBLA will be hopping aboard the Crackdown train with a new playable character. Agent 4 will be available for free to anybody who has a Crackdown 2 save file on their 360's hard-drive. Pefe...
| Jim Sterling |
In case you didn't believe Josh when he said Kinect Sports was essentially the Xbox 360's take on Wii Sports, here are screenshots -- way more than you would probably ever want -- to convince you otherwise. See? See? It's, li...
| Jordan Devore |
Following its rebranding, Rare has updated its website to tease us… with something. The UK developer of titles like Perfect Dark and Banjo-Kazooie has taken down its home page and replaced it with a countdown. "07 Days...
| Nick Chester |
It's hard to imagine that Rare has been around for a quarter of a century, but time catches up with all of us in the end. And time has run out for the old gold "R" which has been the symbol of the company for as long as I can...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
I can't say that I'm actively playing the Xbox LIVE Arcade release of Perfect Dark, but if that was the case, today's news of a title update would surely put a smile on my face. It's packed full of stuff the community has und...
| Jordan Devore |
Cue third person post! Storm was given a lead to the Perfect Dark XBLA remake, and then went bonkers. Remembering his glory days with N64 (back when he was concerned about homework, not a mortgage), he had to go furthe...
| Storm Dain |
It seems that Rare isn't so interested in its classic franchises that made it such a popular developer. In speaking with Develop, Studio head Mark Betteridge told them that Rare “would only go back to older franchises i...
| Matthew Razak |
When the Wii first launched Nintendo made the brilliant decision to bundle the system with Wii Sports, thus giving every person who bought it a high quality tech demo of what the system can do, and subsequently defining the u...
| Matthew Razak |
Has Microsoft's insipid MS Points system left you with some spare fake cash that is utterly useless on its own? Good! Some new Avatar gear is hitting Xbox Live Marketplace today, allowing gamers with too much money and not en...
| Jim Sterling |

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