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20 Years On From Microsoft's Acquisition Of Rare, What's Come Of It All?

Kotaku: “It's been 20 years since British developer Rare was acquired by Microsoft. Join us as we have a look at what those 20 years have brought.”

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SullysCigar579d ago

Umm...next question, this one hurts too much.

BrainSyphoned579d ago

Next: 20 years after the acquisition of Bethesda where is Elder Scrolls 6?

Bathyj579d ago

Pretty sad Rare an industry leader at one point, and the best game they've made in 20 years is Viva pinata.

Concertoine579d ago

Viva Pinata is actually a really good game, too.

The problem is MS and everyone else thought the best thing to do was make sequels and remakes of existing IP’s, but the studio itself wanted to make new ones. I still maintain if Nuts and Bolts wasnt a Banjo game, it would’ve been a modern classic.

At least Sea of Thieves turned around and became a success.

poppatron579d ago

Totally agree about nuts and bolts. Banjo was never really my thing, but I absolutely loved nuts and bolts

1Victor579d ago (Edited 579d ago )

@bathy
Rare became a shell of itself shortly after the acquisition as all those legendary developers left the company for other studios. No freedom no motivation to create greater new thing 🤷🏿

Wait I thought killer instinct was made by rare and they didn’t mentioned it on the article 🤦🏿

deleted579d ago (Edited 579d ago )

It really bugs me that they couldn't even be bothered with making a proper Battletoads revival.

They outsourced some indie company that made basically a mobile phone game out of it. They butchered the artstyle, nerfed the Dark Queen. Gameplay-wise it's okay.. but just okay. This is Battletoads, and deserved better.

Lightning77579d ago

That's Rares fault. They're the ones who didn't want to work on their old games and outsource Battle Toads. They're also the ones who actually WANTED to work on Kinect games. They sabotaged themselves.

jznrpg579d ago

The game looks horrible I hate the art style. They basically took a bunch of mini games and tried to make into one singular game and it just makes no sense .

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein10h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii6h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo6h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows905h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha6h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno6h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan6h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno5h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19816h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 1h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno6h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 1h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator20h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac18h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 23h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 9h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 8h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.