Every now and then you hear about an unreleased game from the past finding its way to the Internet, and the sheer number of discoveries in recent months has given everyone hope…unless you’re a fan of Rare’s golden years on the N64. You see, Rare used a special development cartridge of its own invention that […]
Last night on Nintendo’s Japanese website, the craziest thing happened. The Wii U release schedule was updated for the first time in a long time, and it listed two games coming to the Virtual Console marketplace the following day: Banjo-Kazooie and Blast Corps (under its original name Blast Dozer). Immediately, social media lit up with […]
Last month during E3 Microsoft revealed Rare is working on the return of Zitz, Pimple and Rash, the Battletoads of NES fame — the amphibians who came to define the words “Nintendo Hard.” The original game, despite its difficulty, was successful enough to spawn several sequels, but one of them never made it out — […]
As you might have guessed from its name, Yooka-Laylee is a tribute to the retro 3D platformers that were first introduced to the world two decades ago, most notably taking inspiration from Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie. It has been crafted by Playtonic Games, made up of several former Rare staffers, and was funded due to a highly […]
GoldenEye 007 is one of the few titles in history that has been both critically acclaimed and hailed as a game changing moment for the industry, as it proved to be one of the most influential console first-person shooters of all time. This has led to calls from fans over the years to have the […]
Ed Fries, co-creator of the original Microsoft XBox, just told IGN that they almost didn’t secure Rare as a second party. “We put in a bid and then Activision outbid us, and it looked like we were going to lose the deal,” he said. “And then at the very last minute Robbie [Bach, forner XBox […]
British game studio Rare has put out a new video in their Rare Revealed series, this one about the making of the Battletoads series. Five new secrets are told from the mouths of the original staff. The first story they tell is why they wound up making a game about toads in the first place. […]
Right on the heels of Rare’s video revealing once and for all what the mysterious “Dream” video game was all about, the company put out another video on Christmas Eve detailing the making of their 2000 Nintendo 64 FPS Perfect Dark. One of the questions fans have always had is why Rare dropped the Bond […]
Game developer Rare unveiled some “rare” footage that will certainly get the gears turning and have the fans of the company’s game salivating. During the development for the Rare Replay compilation that was released this year, the company unearthed some footage that had been sitting in the archives of Rare’s unreleased RPG project, Dream: Land […]
Earlier this month, the compilation title Rare Replay was released for XBox One. It contains thirty games from the once-legendary game designer’s past, most of which have not been made available since the N64 days. Iin the case of their early titles for the ZX Spectrum, some of them have never been available in America […]
When Rare Replay was revealed at this year’s E3 during the Microsoft Media Briefing and the game subsequently appeared on the Xbox.com store, some people raised an eyebrow at the seemingly low download size of just under 12GB. That seemed like an incredibly low file size for what was 30 games, several of which are […]
Ok, one of the more interesting reveals at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference was the reveal that Rare would be releasing a collection of many of their biggest titles on one disc called the Rare Replay.To help celebrate the 30 years of Rare being in the game industry. Part of the fun came when it […]