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July 25th, 2010 (15:00 CET)We've been nine years following Rare through their Nintendo and Microsoft eras. Today, we say goodbye after a not-that-fulfilling adventure.
featureStampede's Sorrowful Swan Song
July 25th, 2010 (14:45 CET)We go through Rare's entire history on the Xbox while dissecting its most famous cancelled game: Sabreman Stampede.
featureChronicle of a Buyout Foretold
July 25th, 2010 (14:30 CET)Remembering how everything started, when Rare met Microsoft.
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June 30th, 2010 (12:25 CET)According to Rare, that is. Yet, people that have played the game claim that there is lag in Rare’s latest game. Details, plus more, inside.
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July 2010
June 2010
- Will Lag in Kinect Sports be an issue? Rare says no
- GoldenEye 007 and Donkey Kong Country Returns revealed
- Kinect Sports and… that’s it, really
- Rare’s next title is Kinect Sports
- James Bond will return in November
- Rare’s teaser website is online
- Rare rebrands for its 25th Anniversary
May 2010
- Will Perfect Dark Return?
- A Rare Natal game “may be” released in October 2010
- Perfect Dark XBLA title update finally available today
April 2010
- No old IPs returning in the future
- ‘Serious Monkey Business’ is available for your listening pleasure
March 2010
- Perfect Dark XBLA getting fixes and new features in late April
- Jet Force Gemini Portable was in the works in 2000
- Rare to open a second studio facility in Birmingham
February 2010
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie released
- New achievements and a Carrington Institute theme for PDXBLA
- Rare “not working on” Killer Instinct 3, according to Ken Lobb
- Load your Laptop Guns for March 17th
- Perfect Dark XBLA will arrive in March for 800 MS Points
- Demo and achievements for Sega Racing with BK now available
January 2010
- Rare may be working on the 360’s version of Wii Fit
- Xbox Live to possibly get more Rare titles after PD XBLA
- Rare characters ready for new third party crossovers
- Bear and Bird and Vehicle on Games on Demand
December 2009
- Official media of Banjo and Avatars in Sonic & Sega Racing
- Rare brings in 2010 with a Christmas Card
- Banjo and Kazooie confirmed for Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- “Something different” and “for the masses” for Killer Instinct 3
- Perfect Dark XBLA releasing “Early Winter 2010”
- Are Banjo and Kazooie going to be in a future racing game?
- Rare to acquire extra office space at Fazeley Studios
- Planned 2010 Natal game canceled
November 2009
- The latest nostalgia-filled Pantsboard is online
- David Wise, composer since 1985, leaves Rare
- Perfect Dark 2 canceled, may have evolved into something else
- Goldeneye 2010 is coming to the Wii
October 2009
- Kameo 2 was purportedly canceled in 2007
- Rare comments on what we expected Stop ‘n’ Swop to be
- “A little shooter game” from Rare evolved to a lifesaver
September 2009
August 2009
- Rare acknowledges their struggle to find the right audience on Xbox
- Rare considers Natal will change development approach
- Natal provides incentive to investigate Rare classic IP
- Rare’s Games on Demand titles range between $20-$30/29.99€
- 4/5ths of Rare’s 360 offerings available on Games on Demand’s launch
July 2009
June 2009
- Molyneux wants Rare to come out of the closet
- Rare “involved” with Project Natal
- Perfect Dark XBLA coming this Winter in 1080p
- The Future is Here; Rare is Not
- Rare’s Community Manager George Kelion leaves the company
May 2009
- Rare denies Blast Corps 2 and Jet Force Gemini 2 yet again
- Would Rare dig an RPG project?
- Martin Hollis would like to see GoldenEye on the Virtual Console
- ‘Bean’ gives credit to Perfect Dark XBLA rumour
- Seven fan-made contraptions, the SnS reward in Nuts & Bolts
April 2009
- Enjoy instant landscape changes with the new Piñata cards
- 4J Studios explains the development of the Banjo ports
- Banjo-Tooie will hit the Xbox Live Arcade on April 29th
- Tooie’s Easter-limited items now available on the Marketplace
- Banjo-Tooie’s upcoming theme hints at Perfect Dark XBLA
- Banjo finally gets its add-on with lots of new challenges
March 2009
- LOG’s Lost Challenges available on April 7th
- Behind The Scenes of Diddy Kong Racing
- New Rare site design implied by Pantsboard
- LOG’s Lost Challenges gets some found Achievements
- The Nuts & Bolts DLC “doesn’t contain the Weird West”
- Banjo-Tooie’s Achievements online
- LOG’s Lost Challenges revealed as early “as next week”
February 2009
- Rare Engineers and Artists are compromised
- Ghoulies 2 would have had an open-world setting
- Rare restructures
- Sequel to Nuts & Bolts probably later rather than sooner
- Get your Ghoulies grabbed on President’s Day
- Joanna Dark is just as sexy as James Bond
- The other GoldenEye remake goes gold
- Pure love, more Killer Instinct and Master Chief in Viva Piñata
- Rumours on new titles being announced in March
- Games will get Avatar clothes as “Achievements”
- Rare not developing new DS titles at present
- Alleged GoldenEye XBLA achievement list hits the net
January 2009
- Banjo-Tooie XBLA will have the original Stop ‘n’ Swop
- Xbox Originals may get Grabbed by the Ghoulies
- Building the upcoming Tepid Seat
- Fans bet on Killer Instinct 3 for 2009
December 2008
- Banjo’s font size fixed – typeface ruined
- The Banjo Community proposes a contraption competition
- Xbox Avatars get free festive elements
- Rare wishes everyone a fun-filled 2009
- The Banjo universe meets Piñata gardens
- Various Banjo XBLA bugs, fixed
November 2008
- Rare “may do” another Killer Instinct
- Extra customisation options for avatars revealed
- Nuts & Bolts and Viva Piñata on your NXE dashboard
- A new jukebox card for Piñata is available
- Bear, Bird, Shaman, Witch and Computer answer fans questions
- Beat the Banjo team at their own game
- Banjo-Kazooie XBLA delayed to December 3rd
- Rare’s future offerings “will surprise a lot of people”
- “If we could bring back one game, it would be Killer Instinct Arcade”
- The New Xbox Experience update is available
- Keener on foreplay than gameplay
- Don Mattrick reveals the ‘true’ creator of the Avatars
- Nuts & Bolts and Banjo-Kazooie XBLA out now
- A font size fix for Banjo is in the works
- The Nuts & Bolts of Nuts & Bolts
- Dinosaur Planet originally was Diddy Kong Racing 2
- Could Viva Piñata have inspired new Pixar project?
- Glitches & Secrets in the Nuts & Bolts demo
October 2008
- Two worlds and in-jokes galore await in the Nuts & Bolts Demo
- Rare’s latest music updates reveal an untold XNA demo
- Dozens of real Avatars find their way to the Internet
- Six worlds become five in Nuts & Bolts
- Kirkhope’s resignation explanation
- Mata Piñata?
- Mayles on Nuts & Bolts’ cheating and Banjo-Fourie ideas
- Avatars set for November 19th
- Banjo designed after the capitals of love
- Rare in the wake of Ensemble’s closure
- One last Martini to GoldenEye
- Trouble in Paradise demo hits the Marketplace
- Banjo and crew hit Facebook
September 2008
- Rare does not deny KI3, but combo lovers take it as an offence
- Rare responds to Moore’s constructive criticism
- Of Themes and Friends
- BK XBLA not intact, missing few Nintendo aspects
- Banjo-Kazooie XBLA footage and Achievements list revealed
- Two fixes of bird and bear within less than a year
- Xbox Live downtime precedes the upcoming Dashboard update
- Art For Art’s (and for video games’) Sake
- No revisiting old franchises for now, says Rare animator
- Major Nelson shows how to build an Avatar
- Of smart-talking birds and rhyming witches
- Microsoft defends their support to Rare
- Peter Moore: “new consumers don’t care about Rare”
- Conker Commands and Conquers
- Ultimate Combos and Galaxies in Banjo’s latest title
- Nuts & Bolts DLC “definitely possible”
- New Rare game to be announced next week?
- THQ turns Pocket Paradise release into a chaos
- New Xbox Experience: how to look at your played games
- Avatars, “before Miis were part of gaming scene”
- What they’re saying: Trouble in Paradise and Pocket Paradise
- Trouble in Paradise’s infection starts expanding
- A Banjo-Fourie would “probably expand” Nuts & Bolts’ concept
- Rare provides TiPs and tricks for TiP newcomers
- Viva Piñata’s Double Trouble
- Sharing is good, competing is better
- Trouble in Paradise and Pocket Paradise ship to stores in North America
- Sheet music to Killer Instinct 3 makes the internet rounds
August 2008
- Yet another Viva Piñata rumor comes to the limelight
- Was a new Perfect Dark shown last month behind closed doors?
- Edge Magazine on the new Avatar system
- Xbox Originals and Backwards Compatibility come to an end
- Burton claims that we’ll see both new and old IP from Rare
- What’s beyond Nuts & Bolts and Trouble in Paradise?
- Nick Burton imagines the future
- Xbox Dashboard rumoured to be updated in early September
- Nuts & Bolts and BK XBLA’s European release date
- Mayles, Betteridge and Cook in the audio spotlight
- Trouble in Paradise’s demo “on the way”
- Pre-order Nuts & Bolts and get early access to BK XBLA
- Nuts & Bolts demo in the future
- Rare to answer your Trouble in Paradise questions next week
- Players yearn for more Conker and welcome back the Piñatas
- Rare to deploy all their Fall offerings on Leipzig’s GC
- BelieVe in Piñata the first week of September
- PDZ and Kameo sold “phenomenally well”; Kameo “still selling”
- Rare willing to go back to Conker and Kameo
- Nick Burton Burton has a “strong idea” for Lunar Jetman XBLA
- Dinosaur Planet should’ve been released as Dinosaur Planet
- Achievements for Trouble in Paradise Revealed
- The first Piñata Vision Card goes online!
- Half of Rare working on yet unknown projects
- Perfect Dark and Killer Instinct coming to XBLA?
- 360 Avatars are restricted to family friendly titles
- Rare promises more space in Trouble in Paradise gardens
July 2008
- Banjo wins IGN awards, blueprint ideas still in the cards
- Sabreman Stampede and Battletoads GBA footage gets leaked!
- Grant Kirkhope joins Big Huge Games
- Banjo-Tooie also coming to XBLA
- It’s-a-Me, Banjo!
- 4J Studios developing Banjo XBLA, Stop ‘n’ Swop reconfirmed
- Composer Grant Kirkhope leaves Rare
- E3 2008 Aftermath: The Nintendo Connection
- Rare denies the 360mote for Banjo
- New details of Banjo-Land and a possible slip of the 360mote
- Tusk and Klobb return!
- Rare accepts Wwise audio solutions
- Viva Piñata Trouble in Paradise to feature online co-op mode
- Banjo and Piñata 2 get release dates and reduced prices
June 2008
- GoldenEye 007 voted the 006th best game of all time
- Rare acknowledges a third DS title in the making?
- 100 million copies of “Rareware”
- Your Pocket Paradise doubts, answered next Tuesday!
- Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise performs positively for most critics
- Sony working on Viva Bonsai
- Havok and King of the Hill join the list of Nuts & Bolts facts
- Press to pay a visit to Rare’s new pocket-handkerchief garden
May 2008
- Rare might need to repair BK vehicle aspects before release
- Burke’s life beyond the Enchanted Kingdom
- Shane Kim rules out Banjo and Piñata as big hits this year
- Death, Destruction, and Doom… or only Delusion?
- Revisions of the N64 circuitry killed Stop ‘n’ Swop
- “Banjo’s new look is meant to be self-referential”
- Only The Good Die Young
- Paradises could’ve been connected
- Pocket Paradise announced by THQ, headed your way this fall
- Gregg Mayles to answer BK fans today
- Banjo 3 and Viva Piñata 2, both slated for this year
- Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, coming to Xbox 360
- Scribes 10th Anniversary, full of Banjo info
April 2008
- Microsoft’s ‘Darwin’ to revolutionize Nintendo’s revolution?
- It’s the Banjo Countdown
- Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is on the way to Nintendo DS
- Banjo-Kazooie 3 was shown to selected media last week
- Share your Bear theories!
- Microsoft could be working on Wiimote’s rip off
- BK3 plot hinted at?
March 2008
- Ladies and gentlemen prefer oldies
- Banjo will meet Gears of War 2 in Late 2008 battle
- Nintendo still holds legal power over GoldenEye 007
- Banjo-Kazooie 3 website goes online
- Rare wants VPDS media to be back to Wikipedia
- Bungie beats Rare at Halo 3 multiplayer
- ¡Viva Piñata 2 Pronto!
February 2008
- The GoldenEye XBLA epic hits the streets
- Silicon Minds contest winners announced
- Microsoft willing to launch GoldenEye XBLA
- GoldenEye 007 XBLA remains cancelled
- Conker’s Xbox outing not reloading for now
- Rare’s neglect saucily revealed in Scribes
- The Piñata team prepares another paper maché title
- Banjo-Kazooie 3 “won’t be a traditional platformer”
- An Epic Piñataphilia
- Banjo-Kazooie 3 release window set on holidays?
- GoldenEye 007 is NOT getting reincarnated on a different game
- Rare’s DS producer rescues DKR from oblivion
January 2008
- Roundtable with Britain’s Pride
- Fans still prefer Banjo’s original look
- GoldenEye 007 drama takes the Net
- New 4Kids deal ensures future paper-mache brainwashing
- Fleeting furry rumour ends?
- Rare is not revamping its Nintendo catalogue for Xbox 360
- Never Say Never Again?
- Conker’s Xbox outing is still enjoyed, glitches and all
- Amateur developers on the sights of Rare and Microsoft
- See yourself in a new furry light
- Did Microsoft cancel Goldeneye for XBLA at the last minute?
- Grunty’s new rhyming and not-huge Tooie worlds a-milking
December 2007
- Banjo-Kazooie 3 info avalanche for Christmas
- DKC3 is released for the third time
- New Rare deliberations on XBLA and VC titles come from Scribes
- The Piñata origins (reloaded)
November 2007
October 2007
- Piñatas ’round the world!
- Banjo-ThreeC an eventual reality?
- Cyclical PD2 rumours strike back!
- Piñata developers complaint against Gears of War campaign
- Burger King to promote candy-full creatures
- Rare developing… Halo?!
- Rare’s secret titles go smart
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
- Rare unveils Viva Piñata DS at Comic Con
- Portable ponocky Rare site blowout!
- An “all things Piñata” conference at the Comic Con
- Diddy Kong Racing DS, still in the race
- Rare working on two unannounced projects
- A Rare no show
June 2007
May 2007
- Peter Moore defends the importance of Rare
- DKC2 surprises European Wii owners
- Piñata demo finally steps outside US Marketplace
April 2007
- DKR is bigger than the PS3
- Diddy drives down to PAL territories
- Rumours on a second Perfect Dark sequel / prequel arise
- Rare fixes a bug in Jetpac Refuelled file
March 2007
- Banjo’s development, in 8 pages or less
- Lee Schuneman on Piñata and Banjo’s future
- Jetpac Refuelled quickly approaches Earth
- Diddy Kong and friends hit the charts
- Piñata demo in time for springtime
- Banjo’s voices and Wii’s VC titles, new debates on Scribes
February 2007
- Nintendo finally sets Diddy’s PAL releases
- Banjo release, year given?
- Microsoft wants Piñata to expand into new areas
- DKC on Wii in time for President’s Day
- Three new Rare items in Piñata Pack #7
- Jetpac to be finally released on XBLA?
- Leafos, Piñata’s hostess, best female character of the year
- Bill Gates: “Viva Piñata is for young girls”
- First Rare XBLA title to debut this year
January 2007
- Killer Instinct on Wii?
- Viva Piñata gets six nominations to AIAS awards
- Diddy faces PAL release controversy
- No Scribes update, but a Pantsboard one instead
- BK items for Piñata Pack #6
- Kawaii Piñatas!
- Franchises touched by Rare grace enter 20 top-selling list
- Rare threaten with their Killer Instinct?
- The fifth Piñata Accessory Pack can now be unlocked
- Chris and Tim Stamper have left Rare
December 2006
- You only play twice
- PDZ and Conker in 2006 top 20 for Xbox systems
- Piñatas worthy of Tiffany’s
- Diddy DS: missing in action
- Conker’s at last backwards compatible
- Stampede’s sorrow never dies
- It’s time for new Viva Piñata little rip-offs
- Bugs plague our gardens
- Piñata party & Piñata merchandise on the way
November 2006
- No DLC for Piñata until it becomes a hit
- Reggienator wants 007 on Wii
- Viva Piñata captures the gaming industry’s attention
- More cult classic Rare accessories for Piñata on Xbox Live
- Coming features will allow garden visiting in Piñata
- Region-free Piñata confirmed
- First Piñata downloadable content hits the markerplace
- Wii fans more interested in Battletoads than Twycross’ bosses
- Not enough people to improve PDZ content, Mighty Loveday states
- PDZ to be Classic, and new maps uncovered
- Piñata goes Gold!
- Rare premieres new website design
By RARE FAN / read
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