News Articles
Thursday22nd Feb 2024
News Five More Of Xbox's Rare Classics Are Now Available For Switch Online
But some titles still aren't available on Xbox
Nintendo's latest broadcast revealed both Pentiment and Grounded would be coming to the Switch, but that actually wasn't the only Xbox-related news shared during the Partner Showcase. Five games in Rare's retro library have also made the journey across to the Switch Online service. This includes Snake...
Tuesday13th Sep 2022
News GoldenEye 007 Will Be Free For Digital Owners Of Rare Replay On Xbox
"Download and enjoy the game free of charge"
Rare has confirmed today that if you already own a digital version of the Rare Replay collection for Xbox One, you'll be given access to GoldenEye 007 at no extra cost when it arrives in the near future - no catches! This was mentioned earlier today by Studio Head Craig Duncan on the Xbox website:...
Wednesday19th Jan 2022
News Rare's N64 Classic Banjo-Kazooie Is Out This Week On Switch
Another "modern way" to enjoy this title
Update: Rare has passed on the news to Xbox fans that its classic N64 title Banjo-Kazooie is out on the Switch tomorrow. Of course, Xbox fans can still play the title via Game Pass and Rare Replay. Original article [Fri 24th Sep, 2021 03:30 BST]: Rare might have been purchased by Microsoft long ago, but...
Saturday27th Mar 2021
Reminder Rare's Banjo-Kazooie Now Available As A Smash Bros. amiibo
Raring to go!
Well, here's something you don't see every day - the Rare and Microsoft-owned character Banjo-Kazooie has just been released as an amiibo for Nintendo's all-star brawler, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Banjo & Kazooie originally made their debut in Smash Bros. Ultimate in September 2019, as part of Fighter Pass Vol. 1. To this day,...
Friday5th Mar 2021
News Rare Celebrates Conker’s 20th Anniversary Today
Maybe one day he’ll return
Conker has hit the big two-zero today, as the iconic platformer celebrates its 20th anniversary. It seems Rare didn’t want to miss out on the celebration, as they’ve shared a 20th anniversary post on Twitter, reminiscing on the cute, foul-mouthed squirrel’s past. They’ve even added some brand new Conker merch to...
Sunday4th Oct 2020
News Rare's Banjo-Kazooie Releasing As A Smash Bros. amiibo In 2021
The bear and bird are back
Steve and Alex from Minecraft weren't the only characters under the Xbox Game Studios banner to feature in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate broadcast yesterday. At the very end of the show, game director Masahiro Sakurai gave fans a first look at the amiibo for the Rare duo Banjo-Kazooie. It'll be arriving in 2021,...
Tuesday28th Jul 2015
News Don't Panic! Rare Replay Games Can Be Played Full Screen and Without Borders
Phew!
Rare Replay is heading to Xbox One within the next week or two and more details about the 30-game compilation are coming to light. It seems that some were concerned - as we were - that the older games would need to be padded out with massive borders to prevent them from looking poor on the larger resolution that modern consoles provide...
Wednesday22nd Jul 2015
News Rare Replay Installation is One of the Largest On Xbox One
Take a look at the game select screen
Whether you're planning on owning the disc or digital copy, Rare Replay -- a collection of 30 classic Rare games -- is going to take up approximately 50GB of your precious Xbox One memory to install each game. Based off of information from the Xbox website, Rare Replay needs 11.26GB to install every game that...
Monday22nd Jun 2015
News Yes, Rare Replay Will Be Bundled With the Relevant DLC
Just in case you were wondering
Rare Replay is en route to Xbox One and it'll contain 30 titles from Rare's impressive back catalogue. While most of the titles were from an era well, well, well before downloadable content was even a consideration, a couple of them - Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero, and Viva Pinata - come from a slightly more modern age...
Monday15th Jun 2015
E3 2015 Rare Replay Will Bring 30 Classic Rare Games to Xbox One This August
30 games for $30
During Microsoft's E3 press briefing it was announced that Rare Replay, a collection of 30 classic games from developer Rare, will be coming to Xbox One on August 4th. The trailer (which you can view below) showed a broad range of titles from Rare's history – dating back to the NES days and before – all bundled into one package...
