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...

Along with an eye-catching trailer to tease the Cursed Sails and Forsaken Shores content updates for Sea of Thieves (due in July and September, respectively), Rare took E3 as an opportunity to field questions from the game's community. The ...

It's time to check out Sea of Thieves again. Along with a big ol' shark to fight, the game's first big content update provides players with more ship-to-ship communication options like a speaking trumpet, pirate cosmetics like tattoos and s...

The Hungering Deep, the first major content update for Sea of Thieves, is set to arrive on May 29. Microsoft and Rare debuted a trailer on Inside Xbox, and if you've been following along, you'll know not to expect anything too concrete from...

After a short delay, Rare has added the ability for Sea of Thieves players to create open and closed crews. Under the old system, the game would try and fill out your crew as needed, so if you had a friend duck out, a random player would mo...

Sea of Thieves is set to land its first big content update, The Hungering Deep, later this month. We'll know more soon, as Rare plans to come out with a launch date and trailer next week. As previously covered, The Hungering Deep will intro...

Screwing around and looking fab on the high seas -- that's the Sea of Thieves way. I've pretty much got my withered pirate looking the way I want, but maybe you're still searching for that perfect outfit. Today, Rare added a number of new c...

March NPD numbers are finally out and, as expected, Far Cry 5 is sitting atop the overall sales chart. Not the biggest surprise given Ubisoft announced earlier in the month the game is the fastest-selling entry in the franchise, but it...

The rough-and-tumble waters of Sea of Thieves are getting a bit more hospitable. Well, not from other players. They'll still kill you right dead. But the game itself keeps getting more and more polished. Rare has released update 1.0.5 ...