Everwild (Xbox One) News Articles
Monday13th Oct 2025
News Everwild Screenshots Leak Online Several Months After Xbox Cancellation
Featuring gameplay & UI elements!
Back in July, as part of broader layoffs at Microsoft, Rare's Everwild was cancelled after more than five years in the making - and now a selection of in-development screenshots have been shared online; giving us an idea of what the Sea Of Thieves developer was looking to build with
Monday1st Sep 2025
News Despite Cancelling Everwild, Xbox Has Just Hired Its Executive Producer For A Major Role
They're now Chief of Staff at Xbox Game Studios
We're still gutted by the cancellation of Rare's mysterious IP Everwild earlier this year, and here's hoping more details come out about it - we'd love to see some in-development footage and get more behind-the-scenes info. In the meantime, it's been revealed that Everwild's executive producer, Louise...
Tuesday15th Jul 2025
News Rare Comments On Everwild Cancellation For First Time Since Xbox Layoffs
"It's impossible for something like this not to ripple through the studio"
As you're probably well aware at this point, there were a whole bunch of Xbox layoffs earlier this month across multiple studios and divisions, and Rare's Everwild project was cancelled entirely as part of the cuts. Everyone's been remaining pretty quiet about this at...
Thursday10th Jul 2025
News Rare Is Completely Re-Evaluating Its Development Process After Everwild Cancellation
Sea of Thieves Community Direct tells all
Today, Sea Of Thieves developer Rare has hosted its first-ever 'Community Direct' livestream, addressing past game updates and what plans the studio has for the future of the title. While specific new updates weren't really discussed in detail, the team talked about its development process from a high level,...
Wednesday2nd Jul 2025
News Xbox's Everwild Gets Cancelled As Layoffs Hit Sea Of Thieves Developer
Update: It's now official
We told you folks to brace yourselves today and that's exactly what's needed. Following news earlier that fresh Microsoft layoffs were starting to hit Xbox teams, it's being reported that Rare is now one of the studios affected - and its Everwild project has seemingly been cancelled as a result. This is coming from outlet
Wednesday28th May 2025
News Microsoft Has 'Strong Confidence' In Rare's Everwild, Says Xbox Reporter
"The game is now on track"
Ahh, it's almost Xbox Games Showcase time, which means we're going to see lots of rumours and speculation on what Microsoft might be preparing to show as part of its 2025 event. To that end, Windows Central reporter Jez Corden has just put out a massive predictions piece ahead of next month's show - and while lot
Friday27th Dec 2024
News Xbox Fans Treated To Surprise 'Everwild' Appearance Ahead Of The New Year
Could we see it in 2025?!
We haven't really heard much about the long-in-development Everwild over the past couple of years, but Rare has been silently working away on it, and we might have a sign that some kind of reveal will be shared with us in 2025. As part of their "Happy Holidays" message on social media, Rare shared a new piece of artwork...
Monday14th Oct 2024
Rumour Everwild Development Is 'Going Well' At Xbox Studio Rare
The game was announced half a decade ago
Almost five years ago now, Rare announced Everwild, its next major title after the arrival of Sea Of Thieves. To this day, we've not really been given a detailed look at the game, but a new rumour suggests that development on the title is now progressing well at the British studio. Coming from Windows...
Wednesday5th Jun 2024
News Rare's Everwild Is Still In Development, But Will It Show Up At The Xbox Showcase?
"No, Everwild is not cancelled"
Five years. That's how long it's been since Xbox and Rare first revealed Everwild to the world, and as of early June 2024, we still have no idea what kind of game it's going to be. The good news is that it's still being worked on at least. This is according to Windows Central's Jez Corden, who spoke about it on a...
Friday24th Nov 2023
News Four Years Since Its Announcement, Rare Continues To Hire For Everwild
It's not dead, it's resting
Happy 4th anniversary to Everwild! Well, it's kind of an anniversary anyway, as this month marks exactly four years since Rare's new IP was first announced back at X019 in London during November of 2019. We haven't heard much about the project in 2023 aside from a couple of social media posts, but Rare is clearly still...
Tuesday6th Jun 2023
News Rare's Everwild Potentially 'More Viva Piñata' Than Early Trailers Suggested
"The team there will knock it out of the park, I'm certain"
Rare's next game to launch after the ongoing Sea Of Thieves should be Everwild - at least, that's what we've thought since the title was revealed way back in 2019. We've only seen one more brief look at the game since (trailer up above), however a journalist is claiming that it could be...
Wednesday18th Jan 2023
News Rare's Everwild Team 'Warming Up' For 2023 As Work Continues On New Title
"Back in studio this week"
Remember Everwild? Rare's brand-new IP was first unveiled way back in 2019 at this point, and we've been eager to hear more about it since its mysterious reveal. While the team has remained largely quiet about the game over the past few years, we do at least have some confirmation that work on the title is ongoing. Louise...
Saturday13th Aug 2022
News Sea Of Thieves & Everwild Dev Rare Hosts 'Special Guest' Phil Spencer
What is he looking at?
Rare has been quite busy over the past week with the launch of Sea of Thieves Season Seven, but that's not all it's been up to. It turns out the UK developer has also been busy entertaining the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer. In a brief post via social media, the official Rare Twitter revealed how it had been hosting Phil for the...
Monday28th Mar 2022
News Rare's Everwild Set To Feature A 'Large Scale Multiplayer World'
With "extended Artificial Intelligence systems"
It's been almost two years since we first locked eyes with Everwild, Rare's gorgeous-looking new series. The thing is, aside from its incredibly beautiful art style, we don't really know much about what the game actually is. However, a developer job description at least hints at a few notable...
Tuesday25th Jan 2022
News Sea Of Thieves & Everwild Artist Jumps Ship To Fable Developer Playground Games
"I will be starting a new chapter"
One of the most anticipated (and perhaps secretive) Xbox releases is the next Fable game. All we really know at the moment is that it's been in development for at least four years now. Although it seems the project could be well underway, the recruitment drive continues - with Playground Games apparently kicking...
Thursday30th Dec 2021
News Rare's Everwild Is Reportedly 'A Real Mess', Still Being Figured Out
"The people working on it don't know what's going on..."
We've seen reports over the past year that Rare's Everwild is undergoing a bit of a challenging phase right now — even Microsoft confirmed it back in October — and a new report has stated that the game is "a real mess" at the moment. Speaking on The XboxEra Podcast a few days ago,
Tuesday30th Nov 2021
News Alien: Isolation Lead Designer Joins Rare's Everwild Team At Xbox
"Looking forward to making amazing things"
The release of Rare's Everwild may still be a way off, but we've at least got some fresh news about it today in the form of a new hire for the team, with former Alien: Isolation lead designer Gary Napper joining the project. Napper, who also served on the early design team for Halo Wars 2, took to Twitter...
Wednesday20th Oct 2021
News Xbox Provides An Update On Rare's Everwild, Says Reports Of A 'Reset' Are Too Extreme
"We want to get it right"
As we've already highlighted, Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty appeared on the Kinda Funny Gamescast earlier today, and one of the topics centred around an update on progress for Rare's new IP, Everwild. As you may remember, the game was rec
Sunday4th Jul 2021
News Another Everwild Team Member Appears To Have Left Rare
"It's time for a new adventure"
Last month, we heard how Rare's next big game Everwild had reportedly been rebooted, and found out the senior creative designer Gregg Mayles had taken over as project lead. It follows on from the game's creative director Simon Woodroffe leaving Rare last October
Monday14th Jun 2021
"It could easily slip into 2024 and beyond"
Update: VGC has also supported these claims with their own sources, adding that they too believe Everwild is a 2024 release. Not only that, but it’s said that senior creative designer Gregg Mayles will now lead the project. Mayles credits include Banjo-Kazooie, Viva Piñata and Sea of Thieves - a...
Monday17th May 2021
News It Looks Like Rare's Everwild Has Been In Development For Five Years
With full development kick starting in 2019
When Everwild was announced last year, we were left a little unsure of what the game actually is. With just a CGI trailer out in the wild (no pun intended), you'd be forgiven for thinking the game's not that far in its development cycle. But on the contrary, it looks as though it's been in pre-production...
Friday5th Mar 2021
News Everwild’s Lead Designer Says Its ‘Something The World Hasn’t Seen Before’
Sounds big!
Rare announced Everwild during an Xbox presentation last year, and details about the game have been slim since. But according to the game’s lead designer, “something unique is brewing at Rare”, and we can’t wait to hear more. As spotted by Twitter user Idle Sloth, Everwild’s lead designer, James Blackhawk, shared a post on...
Saturday6th Feb 2021
News Rare Seeking Senior Designer For Its Next Big Xbox Project Everwild
"Come on down"
It's the beginning of another year and a lot of video game companies are obviously on the lookout for new talent to assist them with upcoming projects. With this in mind, Rare - best known in recent times for its pirate-themed multiplayer game Sea of Thieves - is calling for a senior designer to come and help create its next big hit,...
Thursday29th Oct 2020
News Everwild Creative Director Leaves Rare, Studio Issues Statement
“The Everwild team are in good hands..."
We've got some unfortunate news to share about Rare's upcoming IP Everwild, as according to a report from Video Games Chronicle, the game's creative director Simon Woodroffe has resigned from his position at the studio. In response, Rare has confirmed that Woodroofe has left the company, with studio head...
Thursday30th Jul 2020
News Rare's Everwild Is 'Unlike Any Other Game That's Ever Been Made'
Aaron Greenberg talks Rare's new IP
Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has been talking more about Rare's upcoming IP Everwild in an interview with the Spawn on Me Podcast, revealing that it's "unlike any other game that's ever been made." We got our first real look at Everwild as part of last week's Xbox Games Showcase, but even so, we still don't really...
Tuesday28th Jul 2020
News Rare Hasn't Said Much About Everwild Because It's 'Still Playing Around With Gameplay Ideas'
What can we expect?
Even after Microsoft's big Xbox Games Showcase last week, we still know little to nothing about Rare's brand new IP, Everwild. We've previously heard how the game has been in development for at least three years now, and that it might adopt the games as a service model - similar to
Tuesday5th May 2020
News Rare's New Xbox IP Might Adopt The Games As A Service Model
According to a new trademark filing
Sea of Thieves has been able to stay afloat on the Xbox Game Pass service over the past few years, but it's not exactly everyone's cup of tea. Players who weren't so fond of it said they didn't enjoy the social aspects, while others felt it was underdone on release and were not willing to buy into the "games as a...
Sunday3rd May 2020
News Rare's New Xbox IP Appears To Have Been In The Works For Three Years
And it only got revealed last November
One upcoming Xbox title you might have forgotten about is Everwild. If the name doesn't ring a bell, it's Rare's brand new IP that was shown for the very first time at the celebratory X019 event in London last year. Over on the official Rare website, the game promises it will offer players "unique and...
