Rare Bringing 'Historic' Franchise to the Xbox One, Reveal at E3

by William D'Angelo, posted on 21 May 2013 / 4,697 Views

Microsoft Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer has told Polygon that Rare will be bringing back an "historic" franchise for the Xbox One. The game will be shown at E3 this year and Spencer believes it will be important for the Xbox One's success.

"Fans of Rare and Rare IP I think will be pleased with what we're going to show at E3," said Spencer. "We had a limited amount of time today and a lot of story to tell. But Rare remains an incredibly important part of our development capability. That historic IP that they've built I think can play a real important role on Xbox One."

Microsoft purchased Rare 11 years ago and Microsoft gained the rights to Banjo-Kazooie, Conker, Killer Instinct, and Perfect Dark. Rare did release a Perfect Dark and Banjo-Kazooie title on the Xbox 360. Microsoft did renew the Killer Instinct trademark in September 2012.


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13 Comments

thetonestarr
thetonestarr (on 22 May 2013)

Battletoads, y'all. Battletoads.

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Michael-5
Michael-5 (on 22 May 2013)

There is some hope here. I mean Banjo and Perfect Dark were crap, but Conker: Live and Reloaded for the original XB was amazing. Microsoft likes to publish a fighting game exclusive near launch (DoA4 for 360, and another DoA for XB), so maybe this will be Killer Instinct.

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SxyxS
SxyxS (on 24 May 2013)

well-the fact why banjo and perfect dark on 360 were crap but conqer wasn't:conqer was just an HD port of an existing good game,but the other games were newly developed.

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teamsilent13
teamsilent13 (on 23 May 2013)

Perfect Dark Zero had the worst controls I have ever played in a FPS. It would be nice to get a stealth game like Perfect Dark with decent gameplay improvements.

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NoirSon
NoirSon (on 22 May 2013)

I am hoping it is either Banjo-Kazooie (probably Rare's most successful original IP) or Perfect Dark. I can't see them reviving Killer Instinct... or at least doing it well after all this time despite the revival of fighting games restricted to the 2D plane.

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Dark_Lord_2008
Dark_Lord_2008 (on 22 May 2013)

$100 million waste of investment is what Rare is to Microsoft. 3 games released in 12 years since it was bought by MS: Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Kameo and Perfect Dark. Rare have all these rumoured sequels in the pipeline that do not even exist.

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trunkswd
trunkswd (on 22 May 2013)

You are forgetting Viva Pinata and Kinect Sports. Of course, I wish they focused on core games.

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NoirSon
NoirSon (on 22 May 2013)

Actually they also released a Conker remake, a bad sequel to Banjo-Kazooie, 2 Viva Pinata games and Kinetic Sports. They have made games just none of them reached the heights of their N64 and SNES era products.

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DevilRising
DevilRising (on 22 May 2013)

It better be one of their actual properties. If they shit all over KI as a crappy Xbox exclusive, fuck 'em.

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ironmanDX
ironmanDX (on 22 May 2013)

Oh look, another game that doesn't exist...

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ktay95
ktay95 (on 22 May 2013)

I want Jet Force Gemini, Conker or Banjo... and it has to be better than the bullshit that the Rare IPs have been on MS consoles

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Bruxel
Bruxel (on 22 May 2013)

nuts and bolts 2

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TheSting
TheSting (on 22 May 2013)

Why not Two? Conker and KI? They wouldnt compete with each other

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NobleTeam360
NobleTeam360 (on 21 May 2013)

Killer Instinct or Conker.

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kljesta64
kljesta64 (on 22 May 2013)

lot of story to tell ? one hour conference...TVTVTVTVTVTVTV,CODOCODOCODCOD,SPORSPORTSPORT lol

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Heavenly_King
Heavenly_King (on 21 May 2013)

they have to say something, considering all the crap happening lately with the console reveal.

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