Next Game From Rare Will Make People Really Happy

"People will exist really happy to encounter" the new game Rare is working on, according to twenty yr studio veteran Gavin Toll, who is now caput of Playtonic Games, a new studio developing a spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie games.

"I still chat to them, I know what they were working on when I left last twelvemonth," Cost told The Guardian. "It sounds really adept."

In November last twelvemonth, Xbox dominate Phil Spencer said Rare is

"edifice a uniquely Rare game."

Rare composer Robin Beanland, stated that 2022 will be a "huge yr" for the studio, and made references to the banjo.

"I desire them to do well," said Price. "They're mates and we left them behind to come and do this. I'm looking forward to what they're doing side by side – people will exist really happy to see it."

In response as to whether Rare's adjacent projection will be using Kinect, he replied,

"I tin can't say for sure what they are or aren't doing with that piece of hardware that Microsoft isn't supporting much anymore."

Playtonic is currently working on their beginning championship, Project Ukulele, a 3D platform adventure that volition stay true to old Rare titles.

"You lot don't just get into the worlds, milk them and move on," says Price. "It will exist more open up and expansive. There is freedom to go where you want. You tin can become into another world or yous tin can spend Pagies on your electric current world and aggrandize it with new areas. I wanted to take away the linearity of the old experiences every bit much equally possible. These days, people want to find their own way through games – and if you get off and explore and don't go rewarded for information technology you lot're like: 'shit, I've simply wasted my fourth dimension'."

"For me, information technology was more most [Rare founders] Tim and Chris Stamper leaving," says Playtonic technical manager Jens Restemeier, who worked at Rare treatment handheld conversions of key titles. "At that place was no sense of progression about what the visitor was going to do from that point on. The story people want to hear is that Microsoft came in and destroyed everything. It wasn't like that. They gave us liberty, well-nigh more than freedom than Nintendo gave us."

Xbox dominate Phil Spencer wore a Battletoads t-shirt during the Windows 10 media briefing at GDC 2022.

Spencer is known for using various t-shirts on his presentations, and when he was approached by GameSpot to enquire if the Battletoads t-shirt meant a new entry in the serial was being worked on, he stated:

"I don't think I've ever worn a t-shirt that'southward been a complete head-fake," Spencer said. "I wouldn't exercise that."

Battletoads was created by Rare and is currently owned by Microsoft. It first released for the NES in 1991 followed by a release in arcades in 1994.

Given Microsoft'south renewed dedication to PC gaming, with Windows ten and DirectX 12, it could exist possible that we get to experience the new title by Rare on both the Xbox One and PC. We tin but imagine what a developer like Rare could accomplish, with DX12 and the advanced hardware that is available today.

We will bring yous whatsoever new data regarding Rare's projects as soon every bit it becomes available

You can read more on Microsoft's projects and DX12 in our previous coverage, here and here.