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A new trailer was shown for a brand new Killer Instinct coming exclusively to Xbox One. It had no numbers after the title or subtitles following a colon. The game is simply Killer Instinct. Along with gameplay, and the familiar over the top announcer announcing fighter names and shouting “Ultra... More

In a pre-show interview with Spike TV for the Microsoft E3 press conference, more details were slipped for the release of the Xbox One. A developer with Rare revealed to host Geoff Keighley that the console will be released for November. An exact day has not been released as of yet. [Source: Kotaku ... More

Christopher Seavor, project lead on Conker's Bad Fur Day and its remake Live & Reloaded, tweeted earlier today about the need to acquire Wii U development kits for his studio, Gory Detail. Along with being project leader and game designer on Conker, Seavor also voiced the vulgar squirrel, and... More

Today's Xbox One presentation was light on games, but it sounds like Microsoft has surprises up its sleeves for E3. Speaking with Polygon , Microsoft's Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer confirmed that one of Rare's established franchises will be making an appearance at E3 this... More

Grant Kirkhope, best known for his work on Rare titles like Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, and Goldeneye, is creating the music for the upcoming Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse HD remake . Apparently he's pretty far along, too. Yesterday Kirkhope tweeted that he was finishing his final piece... More

Hope springs eternal for fans of Rare’s classic over-the-top fighting game, Killer Instinct. It originally appeared in arcades in 1994, before making its way to the SNES and Game Boy a year later. For over a decade, fighting game enthusiasts have been clamoring for a return to Ultratech’s... More

Starting tomorrow, Minecraft Xbox 360 players will be able to outfit their characters with 55 new Halloween-themed skins, OXM reports. Developer 4J enlisted the talents of The Behemoth, Twisted Pixel, Toylogic, Rare, and many more to create these spooky skins. This Halloween Skin DLC pack costs 160 Microsoft... More

In the late 90s, Rare began work on Twelve Tales Conker 64, a sequel to Conker's Pocket Tales for the Game Boy Color. The team eventually scrapped the project and reworked it to be less cutesy and more sweary in Conker's Bad Fur Day. The website Rare Minion acquired 30 minutes of the canned project... More

Perhaps Microsoft is planning on doing something with Killer Instinct after all. While there's no real details to work with here, Microsoft confirmed it renewed the trademark for the classic fighting game from Rare. "Our legal eagles have authorized us to say: 'We have either renewed or... More

Rare has become recently known for its work with Microsoft's avatars, but the company may have plenty of other plans for its future. Superannuation at Kotaku has dug up some intriguing job postings by the company. One is looking for an engineer who can, "understand, assess, and be capable of... More

You won't find very many details about the Halo 4 here. In fact, to be honest, there are none. It does, however, give you some insight into the number of talented people who are working on the game. In the video, you'll see people with backgrounds from Rare, Electronic Arts, Pixar, ILM, Kojima... More

Microsoft has released some DLC that could very well convince you to dust off your copy of Kinect Sports: Season Two. The Challenge Pack #2 adds new modes for each of the game's sports, including Darts Vs. Zombies. Spendthrifts can rejoice, since the download is available at no charge. Judging from... More

One of my favorite things about HD re-releases are that they allow you to see older games as you remember them, rather than how they actually are. This GoldenEye video by YouTube user Warialasky reminds me of that. It looks like GoldenEye, because when I played it back in 1997, it looked this good to... More

In a new article, writer Simon Parkin examines the history of Microsoft's acquisition of Rare, and ponders the decline of the studio. It's a well-researched article, entitled "Who Killed Rare?" It's peppered with quotes from insiders like former Rare programmer Martin Hollis, who... More

Remedy, the developer behind the atmospheric action/horror title Alan Wake, is reportedly hard at work on the sequel. The catch? It isn't even for the current console generation…if you believe the rumors. According to a report from CVG , the latest issue of Xbox World hints that Remedy (along... More

In case you're not familiar with basic-cable reality shows, A&E's Storage Wars follows several people who make a living buying and reselling stuff they buy from auctions. The gimmick is that they're bidding on the contents of storage units, without really knowing what they contain. In... More

Last month, Rare released the Calorie Challenge DLC for Kinect Sports. The add-on let players sweat their way through a variety of sporting challenges as they took on six edible rivals. The studio has posted a few concept sketches on its official blog , providing some insight on how the artists tackled... More

The makers of Kinect Sports feel that they've only tapped "10-15 percent" of the Kinect's capabilities. So what's next? Rare's Nick Burton had a lot of glowing things to share about working on Kinect as he spoke recently at London's Institute for Contemporary Arts. He talked... More

While the original Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64 is regarded as a classic and a worthy successor to Goldeneye 007, its sequel for Xbox 360 didn't earn the same praise. Perhaps that's why Rare's planned sequel, titled Perfect Dark Core, never saw the light of day. This sequel would have placed... More

Looks like the venerable English developer is drastically changing gears. The last of its full-time artists have been de facto made redundant, according to several reports. UK magazine Edge is reporting that two separate sources have confirmed that the 42 permanent members of Rare's art department... More