Despite delivering fewer hits during the last few years former employees still believe that the Rare development studio still has the ability to deliver video games that are at least as good as those launched during its Nintendo years.
Ed Fries, a former leader of the Microsoft Game Studios, has told Eurogamer as pa... |
9 February 2012
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A report in the United Kingdom based Xbox World magazine hints at the fact that a number of well known video game developers linked to Microsoft are already working on titles that will be launched on the next generation console, which has been widely called the Xbox 720.The magazine says that Rare, which has been kno... |
5 October 2011
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The Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home gaming console has been launched in November of last year and so far sales of the new device have managed to be better than the most optimistic expectations from Microsoft. And now the company seems to be prepared to push the new device even further, with Eurog... |
17 May 2011
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One of the executives at Rare, a video game creator working with Microsoft on titles for the new Kinect motion tracking device, has said that initially his team and game designer Peter Molyneux were not convinced that the system could work without a physical controller and tried to convince Microsoft to add one.Georg... |
8 September 2010
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The success of Microsoft's E3 presentation of Kinect was overshadowed by some of the gameplay demonstrations raising issues linked to the lag between the player's motion and its occurrence on screen. Nick Burton, the executive producer of technology and communications at Rare, one of the Microsoft-owned stu... |
21 June 2010
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The camera-based motion controller from Microsoft is expected to arrive in 2010 and the company is scrounging up resources from wherever it can to give the new device proper software support. The new Xbox 360 controller has already managed to enlist Fable III as one of the big games that will support it, as Peter Mol... |
3 November 2009
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There are a few names in gaming history that really stand out. These are the names that are well known even amongst those that didn't get the chance of a hands-on experience with them. One of these games is GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, developed by Rare. When a game makes it big, the first thing you can ex... |
27 October 2009
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Rare and Microsoft are announcing that they will be offering a downloadable content pack for Banjoo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, called Lord of Games’ Lost Challenges Game Add-On pack (quite a mouth full).The pack is set to be available on the Xbox Live Markeplace on April 7 and it will be retailing for 400 Microsoft... |
1 April 2009
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With more and more videogames competing for the diminishing time and money players have, preorder special offers are seen as a way of increasing the appeal of a title. This fall, the same codes have become a weapon in the increasingly bitter fight between videogame publishers and stores that are willing to deal with ... |
20 November 2008
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts, one of the most anticipated titles for the Xbox 360 in the field of casual gaming, is the fifth in the Banjo Kazooie series, which started in 1998 as a Nintendo 64 game. It is also the first title that won’t be coming to a Japanese console, being an Xbox exclusive.The demo of the ... |
6 November 2008
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Microsoft might be interested in developing more games for the Nintendo DS, if representatives of studio Rare are to be believed. Rare is owned by Microsoft and is currently developing a DS version for Viva Piata.The studio was bought by Microsoft in 2002 and, even if the team has created some games for handheld gaming... |
16 June 2008
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Rare is a development studio which set Microsoft back $377 million when they acquired it. The studio produced two titles, one of which simply sucked: Jetpac Refuelled (a fairly good one) and Viva Pinata, which was a very big disappointment for the company in terms of sales. So, then the following question remains una... |
16 May 2007
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