“Rare makes the kind of games the world doesn’t already have” – The Legend of Rare - MCV/DEVELOP
We talk to Rare about what makes it one of the UK’s longest-running and most important development studios
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“More recently, when this studio started out on projects for the Xbox One console, it could easily have taken a conventional route, revived a beloved franchise and worked within a safe, familiar genre.
“It didn’t. It made a massively multiplayer co-operative pirate simulation. I’ve been playing games for 35 years, and I thought I’d seen it all. But watching my sons play Sea of Thieves with their friends, all of them helpless with laughter as they accidentally drop another treasure chest in the sea, or get drunk on grog and throw up all over their ship, has reminded me of the supreme pleasure of video games.
“Unlike TV, unlike film, this medium allows us to forge our own paths and tell our own stories. And if there’s one studio in the world that really understands this unique quality, it is Rare.”
Keith Stuart - The Guardian
