Rare Ltd.

@rare.co.uk

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UK Xbox studio enabling pirate capers in @seaofthieves.com. Also made some other games you might know.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a Sea of Thieves crew rendered in a chibi style with pastel colours. Text reads: Art by Kao, @KaoChimo.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very green-tinted drawing of Conker and Berri from Conker's Bad Fur Day in their Matrix-inspired gear from a scene near the end of the game. Text reads: Art by Scotch, instagram.com/super.butter.scotch/.
Those colourful cakes we mentioned on the previous image? Here's they're at the front of the table, their rainbow icing on full display. They were shortly moved further back on the table, away from the deadly laser known as the Sun.
A small red, blue and yellow handheld console is running Banjo-Kazooie while being propped up precariously on its box with the Rare Ltd logo in the background. This is at the top of a staircase and it didn't fall, we promise.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows an elated bear in yellow shorts, holding aloft a golden jigsaw piece, while the red bird sitting in his backpack looks somewhat unimpressed. Text reads: Art by Jujubee, @JuJuBee2008.
A photo of a Nintendo Switch 2 running Donkey Kong 64, surrounded by bananas. So many bananas. We're now off to look up banana recipes.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a mouse drawn in an angular style, their eyes slightly skew-whiff and tongue lolling out to give a thoughtless expression. Text reads: Art by supermimobroxx, instagram.com/supermimobroxx.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a realistic interpretation of Viva Piñata's Sour Mallowolf, all red with glowing yellow eyes and a snarling jaw full of jagged teeth. Text reads: Art by GhosteBoergre, @GhosteBoergre.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a colourful rendition of the Pretztail from Viva Piñata, bounding with a big smile on its face. Text reads: Art by blackzodiacqx, instagram.com/blackzodiacqx/
A family of greylag geese enjoy a morning stroll. One parent and the goslings are having a snack of nutritious grass, while the other parent looks down its beak with nothing but murder on its mind.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very stylish rendition of the bear and bird Banjo and Kazooie. Kazooie is shouting at Banjo, seemingly trying to fly as Banjo puts a lot of weight on the backpack she sits in, reaching down towards the sky and clearly not really thinking. Text reads: Art by Mar Mar, @Mar_Mar_Up.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a tiger, relaxing in the shade. Closer inspection shows that it's made of paper, and is in fact a Tigermisu from Viva Piñata! Text reads: Art by millies-theme, tumblr.com/millies-theme
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very exaggerated interpretation of an anthropomorphic Battletoad crashing a futuristic Turbo Bike while sunglasses fly from his head and his eyes bulge out. Text reads: Art by jcpxdesigns, instagram.com/jcpxdesigns.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows the bear and bird characters Banjo and Kazooie leaping into the air and reaching for a golden jigsaw piece. Banjo looks appropriately in awe, while Kazooie appears livid. Text reads: Art by Dan Dark, @DanDarkOne.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a bronze parrot inspired by Sea of Thieves, flying past palm trees with coins and cakes in them. Text reads: Art by GemmaJohnsonArt, instagram.com/gemmajohnsonart.
A very tall cake inspired by Sea of Thieves. The swirly icing is a gradient of green to blue, while black Kraken tentacles rise from the base and curl over the top, among official models based on the game. It looked nowhere near this impressive two minutes later once a knife was introduced to it and now this is the only memory we have of it. Photos are precious.
The cheery faces of Conker and Berri, a red squirrel and chipmunk respectively, smile at you over a green grid-like background disappearing into the distance. Title below reads 'Rock Solid Revitalised', and the image also features the logos for Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal and TikTok.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows the Gold Hoarder from Sea of Thieves, a skeleton in a large jacket who, true to his name, wears gold jewellery, has a gold coin stuck in his skull and clutches a shovel of the same material. He also has green gems both for eyes and as a common decoration in his other golden elements. He's hunched over his shovel, running coins through the fingers of his right hand Text reads: Art by Hanging-Bottle, tumblr.com/hanging-bottle.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a side-profile of a red squirrel who's wearing a crown, blue hoodie and regal cape while looking off to the side with melancholy on his face. Text reads: Art by Sleepyrr, instagram.com/sleepyrr4_.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows two cartoony versions of the Battletoad named Rash, one with sunglasses and red wrap on his elbow, and a second with a large chin and only the spiky accessories. Text reads: Art by _Mostly_Ghostly_, mostlyghostly.bsky.social.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows the bear and bird characters Banjo and Kazooie with very wide smiles, drawn in a style reminiscent of Ren and Stimpy. Banjo is giving a big thumbs-up to you. Text reads: Art by jhonatasueg63, instagram.com/jhonatasueg63.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very colourful Viva Piñata scene full of the papery critters from the game. A very happy Dragonache is filling the majority of the image, but they're surrounded by a Buzzlegum, Sparrowmint, Fudgehog, Lickatoad and more. Text reads: Art by Vic, instagram.com/Avocobbo.
The corner of a Banjo-Kazooie blanket showing a cute Jinjo among other iconic items from the series, like a backpack, honeycomb and egg.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows Leafos from Viva Piñata, a character in a green mask and gloves with many leaf motifs. Text reads: Art by Icey, instagram.com/artsyicey.
A tree of Obscene Size stands dressed in a generous amount of baubles, begging the question of who was bold enough to decorate its highest branches?
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed photo on the right shows a pendant on a chain. The pendant is a glass-blown model of Conker looking exceptionally grumpy. Text reads: Art by Marina Glass, instagram.com/mar.ina.glass.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed photo on the right shows two Sea of Thieves paintings on canvas. The top one is a happy-looking pirate wearing purple and gold, dancing with a ship in the background. The bottom is a painting of a player's view of a swordfight with an enemy pirate on the deck of a ship. Text reads: Art by BAM Ba Lam, @BAM_BaLam_Media.
A half-and-half image of Kameo, from Kameo: Elements of Power, and Joanna Dark, from Perfect Dark Zero, with each side showing half of each character's face, sort of combining to to make Kamanna. Well no, there's a clear dividing line, and the hair doesn't line up. It's a fun image anyway and we're thinking about it too much.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very green and black aerial view of the garbage disposal shark-thing from Banjo-Kazooie known as Clanker, at home in Clanker's Cavern. Text reads: Art by Elijah, instagram.com/emvkoopa.
The box art of Banjo-Tooie as it was released on the N64, featuring Banjo, Kazooie and Mumbo staring you down with looks of happy intimidation. The box also happily exclaims that the game is 'only for' Nintendo 64, which was accurate at the time. Nowadays you can play it on Xbox Series S/X, via Cloud Gaming or even Nintendo Switch. Isn't modern gaming delightful? ISN'T IT?
A Banjo and Kazooie plush, five colours of Jinjo plush, a t-shirt full of iconography from the game Banjo-Kazooie and a golden jigsaw piece are pictured next to the words "Available at fangamer.com". STUFF AND THINGS!
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pair of squirrels from the game Conker's Bad Fur Day looking exceptionally happy. Text reads: Art by Muggy, @Muggy_Art.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a fire-filled image where an angry skeletal pirate dressed in red and black leads some sort of attack. Behind the crew, a skull-shaped cloud with fiery eyes hangs in the sky. Text reads: Art by DummyMegan, tumblr.com/dummymegan.
The lanky Grim Reaper from Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Gregg the Grim Reaper from Conker's Bad Fur Day and the surly 'Ferryman' from Sea of Thieves sit around a table enjoying sticking small colourful swords into a barrel, from which the legally-distinct head of a bowler hat wearing character can be seen. Text reads: "Happy Halloween from Rare".
A group of people stands in front of a tavern set smiling. Several are wearing white shirts with purple lettering reading "crew".
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a moody drawing of a jagged wolf-like creature surrounded by bats (they're all piñatas, from the game Viva Piñata). Text reads: Art by Lou, instagram.com/Louci4art.
A stack of 26 Itsu Noodle pots, exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to find in the Community team office of a video game development studio.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a sketch of a pumpkin with googly eyes and clothing around its lower half. Text reads: Art by Artsy Dar-c, @ArtsyDarC.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art sits on the right showing a colourful scene of many grey squirrels in army uniforms surrounding a red squirrel trying to enjoy a beer. Text reads: Art by Jenny-Jinya, reddit.com/user/Jenny-Jinya
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art sits on the right depicting a Sea of Thieves scene. The top half shows a small island with a palm tree under a perfect blue sky. The bottom half of the image depicts a group of fish swimming around seaweed and rocks. Text reads: Art by Chilla, @chill_art22
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art sits on the right showing a Sour Shellybean from Viva Piñata - a red snail-shaped piñata with angular green eyes. Text reads: Art by Pokeshadow, pokeshadow.tumblr.com.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art sits on the right showingsihouette of a pirate, cast by the moon. They're holding a skull up to their face in what appears to be a mournful gesture. Text reads: Art by BigKitt10, @BigKitt10.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art sits on the right showing a very full and vibrant piece, made with a variety of materials, depicting a forest scene full of Piñatas and the angry-eyed Professor Pester. Text reads: Art by Drew, instagram.com/lag_draws.
A framed picture of a bloke with a dog next to the words "Eduardo Gomez's Favourite Rare Crossover: “I have been playing Super Smash Bros. since the Wii days, and I have many fond memories of it. When Banjo & Kazooie were announced to be joining the roster in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I was thrilled! I still can't believe we get to play as characters so dear to us in that game!”".
A scene of a red carpet outside a theatre absolutely full of classic Rare Ltd. characters! From bear and bird Banjo and Kazooie and the heavily-armed pup Lupus from Jet Force Gemini, to Sea of Thieves' Flameheart in shouty cloud form and a group of cats from different games and many more characters beside, all gathered for a screening of "Rare 40th Anniversary".
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed drawing on the right shows an exaggerated rendition of the green, warty witch with a purple scarf known as Gruntilda reaching after the bear and bird Banjo and Kazooie, who are also carrying a blue, sharp-nosed creature as they reach for a jigsaw piece. Text reads: Art by Sadaros, @SebaAdaros.
A scene of a red carpet outside a theatre absolutely full of classic Rare Ltd. characters! From bear and bird Banjo and Kazooie and the heavily-armed pup Lupus from Jet Force Gemini, to Sea of Thieves' Flameheart in shouty cloud form and a group of cats from different games and many more characters beside, all gathered for a screening of "Rare 40th Anniversary".
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed photo on the right shows a bandana-wearing skeleton holding up an explosive Gunpowder Barrel. Text reads: Art by rosecollectif, instagram.com/rosecollectif.
Twelve games surround the red Rare logo.
A blue and grey varsity jacket with yellow Rare logo, black t-shirt with wireframe RareWare logo and pin of the red Rare logo used for the studio's Ruby Anniversary alongside the words "Rare 40th Anniversary Merch Coming Soon!".
A vinyl set of four discs in yellow, orange and two shades of blue. The vinyl sleeve has a large yellow Rare logo set among artwork of a huge number of characters from the studio's games.
A blue, yellow and gold Xbox controller with a nostalgic print featuring icons representing a number of classic Rare Ltd. games.
A group of people stand smiling at you, surrounding a blue plaque on the wall which reads "Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd, founded 1982. The Birthplace of Rare Limited, founded 1985".
Theatre seating contains a range of characters from Rare games, including Banjo and Kazooie, Conker, Rash from Battletoads, Mr. Pants, Joanna Dark and Elvis from Perfect Dark, Lesedi from Sea of Thieves, Mr. Ribs from Grabbed by the Ghoulies and various Piñatas from Viva Piñata. Some are just sat smiling, while others are getting up to mischief.
A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed photo on the right shows a pirate dressed in a golden jacket and a yellow ascot. They have blonde hair adorned with playing cards as well as another playing card functioning as an eye patch. There are three iterations of the character showing different facial expressions and poses. Text reads: Art by Tigera, tumblr.com/basesandbadniksposting.