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Dream: Rare Reveals Footage of Unreleased RPG

Dream: Rare Reveals Footage of Unreleased RPG

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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 of Giants. This Rare game is the fabled precursor to Banjo-Kazooie. Rare also recorded new interview footage with the Dream and Banjo-Kazooie developers for the video, which you can also check out in the player below. Dream followed the boy hero Edson and his dog Dinger. The project eventually morphed into what became the hit game Banjo-Kazooie. The attempt with Dream by the Rare team was to try and make an RPG for the Super Nintendo console using the then high-quality rendered graphics of the Donkey Kong Country series. The footage shows a more isometric type of game and a boy hero with his sword. Ultimately, Edson became Banjo the bear, who was transplanted to

Rare Hints At Launching Behind-The-Scenes Video Series

Rare Hints At Launching Behind-The-Scenes Video Series

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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 at all. One bonus feature that can be slowly unlocked in Rare Replay is a series of behind-the-scenes videos called “Rare Revealed” that show how many of the games in the collection were put together, as well as the first-ever glimpses of games that were planned at one point but never made. Unfortunately some of the more interesting videos are incredibly hard to unlock, requiring hours of practice with some of the more awful games in the Rare Replay collection. In cases like this, it’s a good thing we have YouTube, right? Rare thinks so too. That’s why they’re planning on continuing the Rare Revealed series on their YouTube channel soon. They made the announcement

Full Rare Replay Installation Size Detailed

Full Rare Replay Installation Size Detailed

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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 full retail Xbox 360 games. Well it turns out that the 11.26GB download is just the initial game itself with the earlier NES, SNES, N64 and Xbox titles. The Xbox 360 titles included in the collection come as separate files and will take up a further 38GB, meaning that the full size of Rare Replay will approach 50GB in total, or around 1/10 of the total space available in the normal Xbox One hard drive. “After purchase, the Xbox 360 titles within Rare Replay will also be added to your download queue. Installation space for all titles will require a further 38Gb. If you cancel the installation of a title, you can reinstall at any

Rare Replay To Favor Gamers Who Played Rare Games On Xbox 360?

Rare Replay To Favor Gamers Who Played Rare Games On Xbox 360?

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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 was announced that there’s up to 10,000 achievement points for you to get. However, there’s a catch. Some of the points will only be received if you played certain rare games on the Xbox 360, as Rare’s Jason Thomas told Rare Gamer in an interview: “So the 360 games [in the Rare Replay digital collection] are as they currently are on the 360, nothing added or taken away. The benefit of this is that you get to use your existing achievements to get a head start in unlocking the bonus content within Rare Replay,” he said, “Furthermore, your saves carry across too thanks to the wonders of the Cloud – if you saved it up

Full Details Revealed on Rare Replay

Full Details Revealed on Rare Replay

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Thank heaven for Rare Replay. It’s a very good thing that Microsoft has decided to remaster and re-release so many classic games from Rare’s history, games that until now were rotting in the N64 library, doomed to forever be cartridge exclusives at low resolution. Classics like Blast Corps and Jet Force Gemini deserved better. Here is the full list of titles Rare Replay includes. They’re not all winners, of course, but the ratio of winners to losers is very high for a compilation title. I should point out that with Jetpac’s inclusion on the disc, a Rare game is now available for both a current-gen Nintendo and Microsoft console at once. Atic Atac Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Tooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Battletoads Battletoads Arcade Blast Corps Cobra Triangle Conker’s Bad Fur Day Digger T. Rock Grabbed by the Ghoulies Gunfright Jet Force Gemini Jetpac Jetpac Refuelled Kameo: Elements of Power Killer Instinct Gold Knight Lore Lunar Jetman Perfect Dark Perfect Dark Zero R.C. Pro-Am R.C. Pro-Am 2 Sabre Wulf Slalom Snake Rattle

Top 14 Revelations About Rare from The Yooka-Laylee AMA

Top 14 Revelations About Rare from The Yooka-Laylee AMA

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Playtonic, the new game studio formed by ex-Rare employees and currently at work on the Banjo-Kazooie-inspired 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee, conducted an AMA on Reddit today, where many previously unknown facts about your favorite Rare games of the past were revealed. Here are fourteen of the best: Development of Kazooie [Steve Mayles] Banjo was already designed with a backpack and we needed a double jump, so we just had some wings come out of it. Then later we needed a fast run move so had some legs come out. Eventually it just made sense to have a whole character in there… it was never the plan to start with! ([Gavin Price:] This is a good example of naturally evolving game design) Crunch time for the original Donkey Kong Country Towards the end of Donkey Kong Country, we had to prepare a build to send to Nintendo so we were working all days – it was a Saturday morning and I awoke to hear a noise at my window, which was odd

Does Rare’s Project Dream Exist In Some Form?

Does Rare’s Project Dream Exist In Some Form?

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Back when Rare had just started working as Nintendo’s second party and were racking up recognition with Killer Instinct and the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, they secretly began plans for their most ambitious title to date, which went by the codename “Project Dream.” Little is known about the game, how it would have played or what storyline it would have contained, but we do know the main character (a boy named Edison, who carried a wooden sword) and the game’s villain, which would have been a pirate named Captain Blackeye. As the SNES limped toward retirement, Rare shifted the project to the N64, and somewhere between then and the summer of 1997 a secondary character named Banjo the Bear stole the lead role from Edison and the game’s theme changed entirely. That became Banjo-Kazooie, which saw release in 1998. Always self-referential, Rare put Captain Blackeye in the back room of a bar in Banjo-Tooie, drinking his sorrows away with ginger beer and lamenting “I had a dream….I were in this

Rare To Unveil New Project At E3?

Rare To Unveil New Project At E3?

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Rare is one of those companies that fans like to rally around, if for no other reason than because of their history of making great games. From Killer Instinct, to the original Donkey Kong Country Series, Battletoads, and of course Banjo-Kazooie, they’re beloved by many. That’s not to say they haven’t hit bumps in the road. Rare’s move to Microsoft met the developer with some hard times and key departures, but the studio held together and has made some good hits in recent years. Now, it seems that the latest big project from Rare is set to be unveiled at E3 this year. This news stems from a Twitter conversation in which Rare’s Creative Director Simon Woodroffe chatted with a fan about Rare titles, and noted that: “E3 will tell the world what Gregg Mayles new project is about.” For the record, Gregg Mayles is a designer at Rare who just happened to work on the Donkey Kong Country franchise, Viva Pinata, and Banjo-Tooie over his gaming career. Then, when Woodroffe was asked

7 Great Game Studios That Have Died

7 Great Game Studios That Have Died

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As the video game industry has grown over the past twenty years to become one of the biggest entertainment markets in the world, there has been a rise in the number of developers working to create games for customers. Many have become household names for incredible titles they have developed, such as with Bungie for Halo and Rockstar with Grand Theft Auto. However, it is not all plain sailing for these studios. A variety of events can lead to them going out of business or simply fading from prominence even after releasing some of the best games of all time. They might go into financial problems due to a title not performing as well as expected, be acquired and then shut by a publisher or suffer from some other unseen obstacle that they simply can’t overcome – whatever the case though, many developers have effectively died in recent times. 7. Bizarre Creations This Liverpool based studio was initially founded in 1988 as Raising Hell Software before it changed its name

Rare Planning Something “Huge” For 2015

Rare Planning Something “Huge” For 2015

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You probably had to do a double take when you read that headline. Yes, it does say “Rare” as in the game company Rare, the one you thought was long out of business. A composer at the English studio tweeted a photo of handwritten sheet music and said “This is a HUGE year for Rare.” XBox president Phil Spencer agrees, saying he toured the place in November and got to play whatever it is they’re working on, and said it was very impressive. He also said it was not a Kinect game. Nintendo bought a controlling stake in Rare in 1994 and for the second half of the 90’s, the studio went on a hot streak rivaled by few other developers. Half of the N64’s must-play list consists of Rare titles. They provided a unique Western counterbalance to the Japanese sense of direction Nintendo otherwise had — but nothing lasts forever. At the time Nintendo sold its stake in Rare, its top talent was leaving the studio to form their

Phil Spencer teases brand new Rare game

Phil Spencer teases brand new Rare game

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A Tweet from Phil Spencer today teased a brand new game from developer Rare. Speaking on the social media platform, the head of Xbox revealed he had been to the studio to play the new game and announced that it was a “uniquely Rare game, as it should be.” This will give hope to fans of the UK based company that they may be working on a title from one of their classic series. Recently Rare has only released Kinect based titled for the Xbox consoles but Phil Spencer has previously told IGN that:  “I don’t want Rare to just become the Kinect Sports team.” Got to play the new @RareLtd game today. Rare building a uniquely Rare game, as it should be. Great visit to the studio. — Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) November 11, 2014 The news follows recent speculation that Microsoft are working on a Battletoads game. Last week a NeoGAF user found a trademark application that was filed by a Microsoft agent for game software called Battletoads. The

Microsoft Pledges to Support Rare

Microsoft Pledges to Support Rare

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In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft has pledged to support Rare, despite recent layoffs and its decision to stop bundling Kinect with the Xbox One.  Microsoft Studios chief Phil Spencer told Eurogamer that he is happy to alleviate any fears that Microsoft has abandoned Rare. “I’m very happy to go on record to alleviate any of those concerns you might have,” he said. “We are very fortunate in having Rare and Lionhead in the UK as crown jewels of Microsoft Studios.”  Spencer also revealed in the interview that Rare is working new games but will announce them when the time is right.   “Rare is working on a couple of things at the moment,” he said, “which we will announce at the right time. But I’m really excited by the things they’re doing and I believe you will be as well when you hear about them. “Rare is an incredible talent and they have some very very ambitious plans for the future and we’re supporting them in every way we can,” he

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