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Rare wants new designers

Okay, we've been a bit lazy lately. But here we come with some recent piece of news about Rare looking for new employees to work on Natal.

Rare is looking for new designers to work on Natal

Twitter’s tentacles finally reached Rare, whose leading man Gregg Mayles just posted a notice for all those aspiring designers that want to join the company. The British are now recruiting people willing to work on project Natal and ultimately change the world order helped by its cutting-edge technology. “Rare is recruiting designers. Excited by Natal? Got [...]

Molyneux on Rare's identity

Somebody finally realized that Rare needs to get known in order to sell. And guess what, it was Peter Molyneux.

Molyneux wants Rare to come out of the closet

Newly appointed creative director of Microsoft Europe and former hype generator of Lionhead Peter Molyneux wants to improve the internal studios’ image. In an interview with Games Industry, the man behind the Fable franchise said he “wants to help Rare have more of an identity and make sure they are seen more within the industry”. “I [...]

The History of Avatars

Up on Kotaku is a very interesting story on the origin of the NXE Avatars. It's definitely worth a weekend read.

PD XBLA screenshots

A first bunch of PD XBLA screenshots shows us the graphical improvement of the game, but makes very clear that we won't play a remake this time.

Rare “involved” with Project Natal

Rare’s lack of games on the show floor has been a disappointment for fans waiting to see what’s next from the English studio. Sure, there’s Perfect Dark XBLA (with a bitchin’ new box-art, may I add), but that’s being ported over by 4J Studios; there’s still a sense of expectation from Rare. Yet, there’s finally [...]

Rare developing Natal titles

With Rare basically a no-show this year, there has to be a good reason for that, right? The answers are inside.

PD XBLA theme and box art

The new PD XBLA Theme is now available on the Marketplace (with a shiny new 'box art'!)

Perfect Dark XBLA coming this Winter in 1080p

As we learned on Monday, Microsoft saw the future; Rare just wasn’t in it. Seemingly, that was that, until late Tuesday. By mid-afternoon, Major Nelson’s Twitter page announced that he was “In the booth. Just saw Perfect Dark on XBLA running 1080p. It is coming to XBLA this winter. Free theme coming tomorrow!” Besides the [...]

PD XBLA at E3

Well, so much for nothing Rare-related at E3. In the most pathetic way possible, it’s known that PD XBLA is at E3. More details, screenshots of the PD XBLA theme, and the chance to comment on it, inside.

Official: PD XLBA

Major Nelson announces PD XBLA on Twitter: "In the booth. Just saw Perfect Dark on XBLA running 1080p. It is coming to XBLA this winter. Free theme coming tomorrow!"

An E3 Rare No-Show

Microsoft’s press conference is over, and while there were some solid announcements, Rare was nowhere to be found.

The Future is Here; Rare is Not

There were a lot of things shown in the recent E3 Microsoft Press Conference: The Beatles: Rock Band looks as pretty as it should, Facebook and Twitter on Xbox Live have the potential to destroy our social lives further as we know it, and Project Natal is taking Nintendo’s idea of motion sensing to the [...]

Microsoft's conference

While this was a quiet pre-E3 when it comes to Rare rumours, you can still follow Microsoft's E3 conference over Xbox.com to find out if the UK developer has something to show. Enjoy!

George K. leaves Rare

Briefly announced last week, we finally cover the departure from Rare of our beloved Community Manager, George Kelion, a mere few hous before E3.

Rare’s Community Manager George Kelion leaves the company

Rare has been part of Microsoft Game Studios for more than half a dozen years now, but during the latest two their presence in media rocketed up. During this recent period, the company did not only count with several new releases (only Late ‘08 was one of the most active periods in the recent history [...]

May 2009 Pantsboard

In what's Rare's last site update before E3, the latest Pantsboard regarding opinions over an inevitable site update is up for your reading pleasure.

No JFG and Blast Corps sequels

Just in time for summer, the latest tri-monthly edition of Scribes is on Rare’s site; as always, we summarize the most important parts.

Rare denies Blast Corps 2 and Jet Force Gemini 2 yet again

With E3 fast approaching, and the last edition of Scribes being somewhere around mid-February, good ol’ Loveday saw it fit to update with yet another tantalizingly teasing edition of Scribes. There’s quite a bit to talk about this time around in the form that’s become synonymous with Scribes-related articles; without further ado: As 4J Studios told [...]