What Is Rare Up To?
The recent news that developer Rare might be up to something big for the next console generation can either cause excitement or groans, depending on your opinion of the developer for the past decade.
The recent news that developer Rare might be up to something big for the next console generation can either cause excitement or groans, depending on your opinion of the developer for the past decade.
For those unfamiliar with the Hitman series it stars the elusive Agent 47, a government-made clone killer who has been hired by a secret private Assassination firm to eliminate “problems.” This simple premise left the player with a series of different missions in various locations around the world and the ability to slaughter an eclectic mix of targets, from billionaire porn tycoons to dogs that have seen too much! Moreover, the franchise is one of the last true stealth games to feed your inner ninja.
Rare recently posted a job listing (which has since been taken down) for a senior product manager to work on “multiple AAA future console releases,” Computer and Video Games reported, and these “future releases” might be based on the FPS genre.
Despite the success of 38 Studio’s Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the developer looks to be deep in a financial hole. According to a report by a Rhode Island NBC affiliate, the Rhode Island government offered 38 Studios a $75 million loan to relocate from Massachusetts to Rhode Island, which they accepted. However, now the government is in talks with the developer about its future.
It’s a rare occurrence that video games based on licenses are ever decent, yet store shelves are full of them. The vast majority of titles boast shoddy gameplay mechanics, disgusting visuals, and are about as much fun to play as setting your own face on fire. The large majority of games licensed from films tend to get annihilated in reviews, which is respectable justice in terms of the damage they cause to their players. What is it that always seems to go wrong?
The developers are damn lucky that this is a good game, because with a title like that there could have been a ton of reviews that begin with “Awesome? NOT!” Fortunately for everyone, Awesomenauts starts with a good premise for gameplay and adds in a ton of funny aesthetics.
The Halo 4 Limited Edition content is announced. The Limited Edition copy of the game will be released at an estimated price of $99.99 on November 6.
