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In an interview with the devs at Rare about Sea Of Thieves, Eurogamer got the details behind the endgame plans and some of the different things you'll be able to do once you progress far enough According to the article, the end goal is to become a legendary pirate, the kind they sing songs about[...]

After tons of testing in the game's PC Technical Alpha, and working with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, Rare has finally gifted us with a clear breakdown of Sea of Thieves' performance stats Breaking from the traditional breakdown of PC specs, Rare's team has released a spec flowchart to give you a breakdown of how well each aspect[...]

Rare have talked a little about their plans to monetise Sea of Thieves past its initial release. Credit// Rare The conversation of 'games as service' is still ongoing How titles focus on post-launch monetisation is under a lot of scrutiny at the moment after some high-profile controversies in the latter half of last year like Destiny 2 and[...]

Today Rare released some information on the players who took part in Sea of Thieves' Closed Beta, which came in the form of a nice infographic Despite the early issues players had getting in to the beta, the game saw over 332,000 players log in to sail around the archipelago and for over two million hours at[...]

Good news for those of you wishing to play more Sea Of Thieves' beta! Rare has sent out a notice on Twitter and in a press release letting players know that the beta has officially been extended due to the fact that people are having login issues Below is a tweet sent out by the company[...]

Rare is currently working on a fix for the "too early" error several Xbox One and PC players have encountered when trying to launch the Sea of Thieves closed beta test which started today Rare acknowledged the error on Twitter, saying they are fully focused on a resolution to the error which indicates a player is "Too[...]

Rare released a brand new trailer today for their upcoming game Sea Of Thieves, this one hosted by Art Director Ryan Stevenson as he shows off some of the content in glorious 4K The almost three-minute video is basically a narrated tour of the world in which Sea Of Thieves is set in, as he[...]

credit//Rare Microsoft and Rare have announced a closed beta test for Sea of Thieves this month Going by a recent Xbox blog post, the beta will run for five days from January 24th at 4 a.m PT  to January 29th at 12 a.m PT. Players who signed up for the Sea of Thieves Insider Programme before December 1st, 2017, as well[...]

Sign-ups to join the Sea of Thieves Technical Alpha may be over, but that doesn't mean the Pirate RPG from Rare is quite done with its Technical Alpha phase just yet Rare announced another play session for this weekend, which will be the longest play session available for the game so far. credit//Rare This week, jump into Sea of[...]

It will live and die on its gameplay loop, but all signs look really promising for the title. We are in for a new look at it soon, too, it seems. Credit// Rare According to GamingBolt, Xbox Games Marketing General Manager Aaron Greenberg said on an ExtraLife Mixr stream that the game would show up at The Game Awards[...]

If you'd like to play the latest test round for Sea Of Thieves, we have good news for you! Rare are allowing anyone who would like to play a chance to sign up before December 1st All you have to do is use/create an Xbox Live Gold account and agree to an NDA The purpose[...]

Credit// Rare Sign-ups for the Sea of Thieves Technical Alpha will end next week on December 1, 2017 So you've still got some time to join the seafaring action before the game hits beta phase and launches sometime early next year For those of you who have been living under rocks, Sea of Thieves is a pirate[...]

Today, Rare sent out a tweet letting fans know that three specific video game soundtracks would be making their way to vinyl Those three games: Battletoads, Conker's Bad Hair Day, and Viva Piñata. We're celebrating #MusicMonday in style by announcing three new vinyl soundtracks! Battlemaniacs, Conker and Viva Piñata, all in collaboration with our chums at @iam8bit[...]

Rare has opened the Sea of Thieves Technical Alpha test once again for all Sea of Thieves Insiders However, thanks to a gag-order in the Insider NDA, I can't tell you much about what the game looks like or plays like in the Technical Alpha as of yet However, it is something like smooth sailing. And, from what[...]

credit//Rare Yesterday, Rare put out an update for all of their "Xbox Insider" members, inviting them to a technical alpha test for Sea of Thieves which will let fans of the game get their hands on an early build of the game. The next session of the technical alpha runs during Gamescom, from August 22nd–27th. For those with[...]

Rare has bean steadily revealing awesome stuff from Sea Of Thieves, mainly because it's cool but also because they know we're not seeing the game until next year So why not share some of the cool stuff now They've been creating a video series called "Inn-Side Story" on YouTube where they've been giving away pieces of[...]

We combed through all of the games that made an appearance at E3 and these are the five that truly stuck out as Best of Show.

Sea of Thieves was one of the darling games from Microsoft's E3 show last year, where we got to take a look at some pirate PVP in action. This year the

If you ever wanted to know what Overwatch might be like if it were given the GoldenEye 007 treatment, youtube user Noilleber has you covered. While the

The idea of bringing your friends together to help run a pirate ship is a novel one, and the look of the title is really endearing too. You can get your look at how that cooperative element is coming together too in this new dev diary from Rare, which shows off the elements the developer has[...]

It's held in pretty high reverance because of that. Well, Unseen64 and RareThief came together to bring you a look at a remastered version of the game that was cancelled It seems this version was set to be a XBLA title, and while no developer was named, Rare did an XBLA remaster of Perfect Dark, so[...]

Sea of Thieves is supposedly Rare's return to form after being locked in a Kinect dungeon for years. We got a great little look at it today at Microsoft's conference as well There was a little cinematics trailer to show you the breadth of things you'll be doing Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lE8DPOYRYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

When Rare Replay launched earlier this year, there was a title quite obviously missing from the collection and it's arguably one of the most important in Rare's history Indeed, GoldenEye didn't make its way to the collection, and that is thanks to a pretty complicated rights situation between Nintendo and Activision. It wasn't for the lack of[...]

As part of Rare Replay, the developer has been digging through its archives to show us bits and pieces of the games that never saw the light of day It's super interesting to see Rare give this kind of access into their vaults. And here is a look at a long speculated about failed project[...]

These videos that Rare are releasing about games that never made their way to launch are fascinating So rarely do developers open up about failed projects, but they make for great day dreaming when they do. Rare have now revealed their lost Conker game, in this new video released online It was called Conker: Gettin' Medieval, and[...]

The game obviously has huge fans, which isn't always the case for a sequel. If you consider yourself one of them, you might get a real kick out of this short documentary that Rare have released It goes into the making of the game, and reveals a fair amount of secrets about the sequel's creation[...]

Rare Replay is just a few days away, bringing 30 Rare games to the Xbox One to celebrate 30 years of the developer This should be enough to satisfy just about any Rare enthusiast and nostalgia hunters. If you expect even more though, you could be in luck During a livestream yesterday (via GameSpot), Rare lead engineer[...]

Rare Replay sounds like a serious deal To celebrate the studio's 30th anniversary, the developer is putting out an anthology of 30 games for 30 bucks This goes across all the classics, like Banjo-Kazooie, Battletoads, Conker, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata and many, many more Golden Eye is missing in action, but lets put that down[...]

ReCore is coming from developer Armatage and MegaMan alum Keiji Inefune, while Sea of Thieves is Rare's new MMO Pirate game. If you were hoping to see either at Gamescom though, sadly, we won't be Speaking on Twitter, Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed that both games would be absent because any materials they would make for the conference[...]

Conversely, we discuss what Rare might be cooking up for E3 and we continue that never dying discussion about paid mods as well as a lot more. Give the episode a listen here: [audio: http://s36.podbean.com/pb/b89d9f6d8259124010252b22bc331f6c/554a65c7/data1/blogs60/682909/uploads/Episode38-YookaLaylee-CVG.mp3 ] You can subscribe to us on iTunes here too if you want to keep up to date[...]