Chris and Tim Stamper have announced that they're leaving Rare Ltd., the company they both founded in 1982. Microsoft is denying that their departure is due to disapointing sales of their games since the $377 million buyout in 2002, Perfect Dark Zero and Viva Pinata to name a few.
In 2002 Rareware was acquired by Microsoft which had before then been a second party developer to Nintendo. Some of their most notable titles released on Nintendo systems were Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, the Banjo-Kazooie series, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Starfox Adventures, many games in the Donkey Kong series, and many more.
Rare founding bros bounce, vets fill in - Joystiq
it's a sad day in the video game community. LOOK WHAT YOU DID MICROSOFT!!!!!!!!
Its fine, none of their games were ever my favorite
I guess we will never have a Donkey Kong Country 4
My dad and me beat every Donkey Kong Country game, we were hoping for a sequal but now it will never be.
Meh. they were with Microsoft who cares.
I find that Microsoft is good for their computer software but not so much in gaming or MP3.
I hope (and I know it'll never happen, but hope still lives!) some day Rare will depart from Microsoft and they'll rejoin haha
Sucks, but ever since MS took over the games havent been that great and they come out slow.... but i still hate to see the company that made goldeneye leave
Maybe they are coming to join the Nintendo Wii game teams lolz.
Rare is far from dead. They have been slow because they are working on Banjo-Threeie. They better not ruin that game. Because I'm buying a 360 for it.
how often do people actually split from a gaming company and and stay outta gaming entirely? my money would be on them forming a new company or joining some other company
it just shows that the real glue holding RARE together was in fact the people who left and formed Free Radical, they were the true RARE team.
I'm with Nomad and DaDillsta on this one. They might just return under a different name or join together with another game publisher so that they will have help. If they are gone for good then it is indeed a very sad day for the video game industry.
it just shows that the real glue holding RARE together was in fact the people who left and formed Free Radical, they were the true RARE team.
No, but they were the Rare team that was good at making FPS games.
it just shows that the real glue holding RARE together was in fact the people who left and formed Free Radical, they were the true RARE team.
No, but they were the Rare team that was good at making FPS games.
meh ive think i evolved past the rare ware days already. i mean Goldeneye and PD were great.. back in the day. but they really were way to basic, just turn and shoot. no aiming needed, sure they were amazingly fun with all the gadgets in PD, but recently while playing Goldeneye and PD again at my cousins house, i realised, we all think way to greatly of the past. Go and try Goledeneye again, you might just agree with me also. 
Farewell Rare didn't really like you, but oh well!
This makes me laugh. So MS wasted 380 million for Perfect Dark Zero and Viva Pinata...good for them. The talent other than the 2 who just peaced out had left during the MS acquisition. So now what does Gates have other than a garbage OS and the name Rare? Oh yea, an N64 to Xbox port of Conkers Bad Fur Day...I'm jealous!
I play Goldeneye to this day and love it FPS... And Perfect Dark is up-and-down.
I'm not much of an FPS gamer though, I like storyline
most shooters I've played lack that or have a very poor excuse for one that makes me think the writer was stoned when he wrote it.
Oh and pizzaturdell... Gates doesn't care, he has TEH HALO!1!111!!1 The Xbox could live off that for ages. The fanboys of Halo will never let it die.
Lol What pizza said, Microsoft lost so much money with the deal they made.
I still say Rare sucks cept for Perfect Dark and Goldeneye both for the N64