Another lost fragment of Rare found...

[A Black Falcon]

At this point, I'm pretty sure there's nothing left of old Rare in the current shell. The old members are too fractured to really stand out any more, so that's that. At this point, Retro's pretty much become Nintendo's Rare replacement.

A lot of the key old members left some time ago, so yeah, I'm sure whichever few remain aren't nearly enough to have much of an impact. :(

Rare is definitely a very sad case, but that story -- of a game developer being bought, and then destroyed, by a large publisher -- has happened over and over and over, so it's nothing uncommon or surprising, sadly. Big gaming publishers seem to just not quite understand how to manage the talent in studios they buy, so they ruin things and leave those companies in ruins or closed.

And yeah, one frequent result of that is studios like this one, developers made up of staff from companies like Rare. As for this game though, not much information in that article there... what kind of game is it? ... Ah, the article linked in that article has a trailer. It's a 2.5d spaceship game? Not what I would have guessed... looks fun, perhaps.

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