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December Social Deceleration
Not to make it sound like we fizzled out like a wet sparkler in the twilight days of 2012 – we prefer to think of it as winding elegantly down for the holidays. Fortunately there was plenty going on...
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Rare Life: Gameplay Engineer
It’s been a while since we did our last batch, but with the games business having blossomed into a hotbed of ongoing recruitment, it seems like a peachy time to bring back Rare’s in-house staff...
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Twycross Winter Wonderland
Rare’s 90-acre HQ in the rural English Midlands, custom-built in the late 1990s, is a major asset in terms of recruitment and general working environment. And it always looks especially idyllic with a...
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January Social Jumpstart
2013! The year we find out what the Mayans were trying to save us from. Seems like a good time to put an end to that AD business and restart the count from 1AU (After Un-pocalypse). So in January 1AU,...
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Rare Life: Network Programmer
It’s been a while since we did our last batch, but with the games business having blossomed into a hotbed of ongoing recruitment, it seems like a peachy time to bring back Rare’s in-house staff...
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Rare Life: Senior Test Lead
It’s been a while since we did our last batch, but with the games business having blossomed into a hotbed of ongoing recruitment, it seems like a peachy time to bring back Rare’s in-house staff...
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February Social Frequency
It’s February 2AU – well, it was – and as always, we’ve been driving power to the Rare Twitter and Facebook feeds by running for hours in the big social media hamster wheel down in the maintenance...
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Rare Does Red Nose Day 2013
Dean from the Rare Events Team writes… An event like Comic Relief never goes unnoticed at a place like Rare. With it being that time of year again, it seemed appropriate to give everyone a few minutes...
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Rare Life: Associate Producer
It’s been a while since we did our last batch, but with the games business having blossomed into a hotbed of ongoing recruitment, it seems like a peachy time to bring back Rare’s in-house staff...
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Top 5 Pre-Kinect Sports Rare Sports (Part 1)
Snappy title. Yes, prior to Kinect Sports and Season Two (and Ultimate Collection, and Gems) it may have been a while since Rare last tackled digital sports, but look a little further back and there’s...
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My First Week at Rare: Emma
Hello! For those of you who missed my introductions on Twitter and Facebook, my name’s Emma and I’m taking on Web and Community Support here at Rare. Basically this means I’ll be engaging with you lot...
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Rare’s Charitable Efforts: Summer 2013
Over the last year, things have been changing here at Rare HQ. Many areas of the studio have been given a nip, tuck and facelift. Those areas in need of a little TLC have been rejuvenated. But our...
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Gamescom 2013 KSR Reaction Rundown
Now that internet coverage of Gamescom 2013 has drawn to a close, and the Rare reps have packed up their Kinect Sports Rivals builds and lurched exhaustedly back to the airport, allow us to present…...
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Pinteresting Times
Pinterest! It’s a funny thing. When Emma came on board to help us out with web & community duties, we leveraged her social media experience to help determine whether Rare should expand into other...
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Scoring for SpecialEffect
Those of you who keep up to date with Rare’s goings-on will know that we’ve been doing some fundraising work for SpecialEffect, a great charity set up to help people with physical impairments enjoy...
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Kinect Sports Rivals Takes Tokyo
In the latter half of September, Producer Harry Robinson and Software Director Andy Dennison from the Rare fun club headed over to Japan to showcase Kinect Sports Rivals at the Tokyo Game Show. Now...
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Kinect Sports Rivals Enters EG Expo
As the UK’s biggest public gaming event, it would have been rude to neglect the 2013 Eurogamer Expo as we came off the back of Gamescom, PAX and the Tokyo Game Show. More than that, we wanted to make...
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Top 5 Pre-Kinect Sports Rare Sports (Part 2)
The first instalment of Rare’s historical sports retrospective a few months ago took us from Slalom through to WWF Wrestlemania, eventually coming to rest in the high-tech space year 1989. We pick up...
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Halloween at Rare HQ
We’re a hive of games dev worker bees here at Rare at the moment, buzzing madly around Kinect Sports Rivals. But that doesn’t mean we couldn’t afford a little bit of time to unleash our creative sides...
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Kinect Sports Rivals Peaks in Paris
Last week saw Kinect Sports Rivals get a little continental with a trip to Paris Games Week. Attendees had the chance to trial Kinect Sports Rivals Preseason, which goes live alongside the Xbox One...
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