On August 4, 2025, Rare officially turns 40 years old, a landmark accomplishment for Xbox's most celebrated game studio. Rare developed some of the most influential and greatest console games of all ...

Kyle Bell is a Commerce Editor from the US. He has been gaming since the age of three when his obsession with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon led to countless hours and quarters spent in the ...

Rare's had gems throughout the ages and I've loved its games from every era, whether you're talking about R.C. Pro-Am, the original Killer Instinct, GoldenEye 007, or Sea of Thieves. Of course, I ...

Rare, the video game development studio that co-creators Tim and Chris Stamper would form in 1985 has a massive and rich history of releases. 40 years later, the studio is now celebrating its four ...

Killer Instinct grabs this last slot because it got a relatively recent reboot in 2013. That said, Rare wasn’t too involved with that game, as it was working on other projects. Either way, the ...

This week's layoffs across multiple Xbox studios left thousands of developers without a job, including several at Sea of Thieves developer Rare, which also had its original game Everwild canceled ...

iam8bit and Xbox Game Studios are working together for a new release, as they announced the Rare 40th Anniversary Box Set earlier this month. This four-LP set will include iconic tracks from over two ...

Snake Rattle ‘n’ Roll dropped on the NES in 1990, making it the second-oldest game here. A platformer where you control a hungry snake, the objective is to eat as many “Nibbley Pibbleys” as you can to ...