
Jon Martin at Coregamer: In 2002 Microsoft purchases Rareware for $375 million, a record for a videogame developer and following the announcement of the deal there was disbelief at the switch from Nintendo to Microsoft and excitement at the new titles that would be moved over to the Xbox, in particular Perfect Dark Zero that had been planned for the Gamecube. Sadly things don’t always go to plan.

Gregg Mayles writes: "Today was my last day at Rare Ltd. Thanks to everyone who played and enjoyed any of the games I helped create while I was there. Also thanks to all the people that worked on the games alongside me. It seemed fitting that I should say farewell with one final rhyme!"
Godspeed for the rest of your journey, sir. Loved BK. I think I'll play it this weekend to show my appreciation for this classic.

Louise O’Connor, a 25-year Rare veteran, has been made Xbox Game Studios’ Chief of Staff.
Not to offend anyone. But what was Rare doing with Everwild for so many years? Development began in 2014, with a reveal in 2019. From 2019 onwards nothing was about the game.
"Notably, O’Connor’s boss of 13 years, former Rare studio head Craig Duncan, was appointed head of Xbox Game Studios last year."
Hiring internal talent from Rare worked out so well last time.

2025 marks the 40th ‘Ruby’ Anniversary of that bold endeavour, and Rare’s inviting everyone to join the celebration of this impressive milestone, offering free gifts, discounts and plenty of swag to claim in their shared-world pirate adventure, Sea of Thieves.
It's a shame it seems pretty Sea of Thieves centric
I was hoping for some cool Banjo / Conker merch or maybe a re-release of Rare Relay with some added games, possibly work something out with Nintendo so they can add Goldeneye to it with online support.
Rare is doing crap for Kinect >_>
Microsoft just killed a great company... the end...
alot of the original team left the studio along time ago
Its a shame microsoft spend so much money and now 'rare is doing nothing for the hardcore
and no rare isn't dead they are to busy with the casuals :(
I do wonder what they are working on, I somehow doubt for the past two years all they were doing was Kinect Sports.
That's the $375 million question