This past weekend, British YouTuber Hbomberguy sat down in front of Rare's 1999 Nintendo 64 release Donkey Kong 64 with two goals. Firstly, to reach 101% completion - a feat which had eluded him since childhood - and secondly, to raise mone...

An impressive modding scene has sprung up around Super Mario Odyssey, and even though most of us will never get to play fan-made levels for ourselves, it's still fun to see them demoed. This week, I got a huge kick out of seeing the iconic ...

Managing which games you have installed at any given moment can feel like spinning plates. The problem varies quite a bit depending on which platform and type of games we're talking about, but if you like bouncing between a regular rotation...

Death in Sea of Thieves can come swiftly. Sometimes you're simply outwitted or outplayed, and that's fine, if a bit irritating in the moment. Other times, you might be offed in a less-than-commendable fashion. That's how I'd sum up the so-c...

2018 was the first year I could say I was honestly excited about the Xbox brand. Not excited enough to actually buy a system, heavens no, but last year was certainly a turning point in how I look at Xbox and its place within Microsoft. This...

If you wanted to get your 2019 off to a weird start, you could do it by pre-ordering this latest release from statue-makers First 4 Figures, featuring burned-out gaming mascot Conker, he of Rare titles Conker's Pocket Tales, Conker's Bad Fu...

Sometimes, completionists have to write off a game as a lost cause. Whether due to technical hurdles like online services shutting down, high skill-based challenges, or time-consuming requirements, achieving 100 percent completion in certai...

Before Rare dips its toes into next year's PvP-centric expansion, Sea of Thieves will get a free pack that improves some of the game's current content. The new DLC, Shrouded Spoils, launches tomorrow, November 28. It's unlikely to win over ...

Have you had your fill of Sea of Thieves' low-key and leisurely ways? I don't blame you. Rare's next major content update might just pull us out of retirement for the thrill of sweet competition. Dubbed The Arena, the upcoming expansion wil...

This week, Rare added a new activity to help spice up Sea of Thieves: Cargo Runs. These timed delivery missions are taken up with the Merchant Alliance at outposts and they revolve around safely transporting goods. The keyword here is "safe...

After a short delay, Rare's biggest Sea of Thieves content update yet, Forsaken Shores, is now available on Xbox One and PC. It's a chance to explore a new area full of active volcanoes and boiling water. While the fiery theme stands out t...

Rare recently suggested that it might need more time to finish Forsaken Shores, and that is indeed the case. This month's fiery Sea of Thieves expansion has moved from September 19 to September 27. "This was not a decision that was taken li...

In just under two weeks, Sea of Thieves players will set off for The Devil's Roar, a fiery new region coming with the Forsaken Shores expansion. It's an outright dangerous zone with scalding water and explosive volcanoes. You'll have a chan...

One debate that has raged over the last 21 years is whether or not picking Oddjob in GoldenEye 007 was considered cheating. The guy is shorter than every other character in the game, so he clearly as an advantage due to the game's poor lock...

The most recent Sea of Thieves update introduced skeletal crews, but when the Forsaken Shores expansion drops on September 19, pirates will contend with a deadly new threat: mother nature. Forsaken Shores is going to heat up the high seas w...

Super Rare Games wasn't kidding when they named their company -- as it turns out, if you don't produce a ton of copies of a game, it does become quite rare! That's exactly what happened with their release of Shelter Generations for the Swit...

The dynamic between Rare and Nintendo is fascinating. You have the former, whose fate was intrinsically linked to Nintendo for so long, now out and about with the competition -- Microsoft. Then there's Nintendo, who has continued ...

Cannons sometimes have a mind of their own in Sea of Thieves -- at least, they did. With today's update, Rare fixed an irksome bug that occasionally caused players to "travel in unintended directions" when fired out of cannons, as well as a...

Sea of Thieves players have discovered an odd yet surprisingly effective way of defeating the AI skeleton crews in this week's Cursed Sails expansion: buckets full of water. Not explosive barrels, or cannonballs, but buckets. I love it when...

I'm stoked for skeleton-led AI ships in Sea of Thieves with the arrival of Cursed Sails on July 31, but formal player alliances will be just as crucial. With the new update, players will be able to raise a pennant on their ship to indicate ...

Lapsed Sea of Thieves players will want to check back in with the game two weeks from now. The next big expansion, Cursed Sails, is set to unleash cursed ships manned by skeleton crews on July 31. Along with the new AI threat, the free cont...

Last week, I got to thinking about Viva Piñata after seeing its name pop up on a list of games that use Xbox One's new FastStart feature to let you download and start playing up to twice as fast as before. "I never want to not be pla...

Aside from drunkenly playing accordion underwater for laughs or trying to board enemy ships all stealth-like, Sea of Thieves doesn't provide all that many reasons to take a dip. Even counting the occasional sunken ships that hopefully still...

Banjo & Kazooie, the adventure loving twosome who starred in Rare's '90s N64 titles, are the next characters in line to receive the statue from the talented craftspeople at First 4 Figures. A new video, which you can check out below, fe...

In celebration of Banjo-Kazooie's 20th anniversary, Rare is selling a referential ship customization item in Sea of Thieves for (a very fitting) 1,998 gold. The Bird & Bear Figurehead is available throughout July, and you'll find it for...