Perfect Dark and GoldenEye 007 Represent Two of the Best First-Person Shooters of Their Generation. One of the most eagerly anticipated games released for the Nintendo...
20 Years Later
'Shaun of the Dead' finds itself in a unique cross-section of being a beautifully filmed, hilarious buddy comedy with truly horrifying blood and guts at its...
Directing duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B Stein have clearly taken inspiration from such films as Room and 10 Cloverfield Lane to craft a stunning, genre-bending,...
“Alright, Team Avatar is back!” Avatar: The Last Airbender is- and will always be- my favorite television show of all time. Its sixty-one episode story never...
15 – Mr. Pants Rare’s off-beat mascot, Mr. Pants didn’t just cameo in several of the games Rare developed, but he also starred in his very...
In 1991, Rare developers Tim and Chris Stamper created Battletoads, a game that became infamous for its difficulty and praised for its gameplay, its personality and its...
Blast Corps is a brilliant concept for a puzzle game featuring a very simple objective: destroy a series of buildings using a variety of unique demolition...
This week we bring you a bonus episode of the NXpress podcast with a review of Nintendo’s most boundary-pushing piece of software, Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Closing...
Following his first appearance, in Diddy Kong Racing, Conker’s first solo game was Conker’s Pocket Tales for Game Boy Color. Luckily, Conker’s only family friendly escapade was a...
Just this week I released my latest mixtape sampling my favourite tracks from some of my favourite video games developed by Rare in conjunction with our...
I backed Yooka-Laylee within hours of it being revealed by a group of former Rareware developers [now calling themselves “Playtonic Games” ]. I grew up on...
Over the years, Rare developed some of our favourite video games, but what many people often forget (and sometimes don’t acknowledge) is the superb soundtracks composed...
Don’t blame Star Fox Adventures. It’s not Star Fox Adventures‘ fault that a design centered around gameplay that requires players to be firmly planted on terra firma was...
In a recent review of Rare’s 1997 surprise hit Blast Corps, our very own Mike Worby wrote, “While there’s a long and varied laundry list of...
Few games were more eagerly anticipated than Rare’s unofficial sequel to GoldenEye 007 back in the year 2000. This week we continue our month-long spotlight on...
First-person shooters had been out a long time before Rare’s Goldeneye 007 came along and were already popular in college dorms via LAN or kids whose parents...
A bear with a bird in his backpack on a quest to save his kid sister from the grasp of an evil witch. At first glance...
It’s a new year and we are back with a new intro and a jam-packed episode. This week we discuss three of Rare’s best games starting...
Of the many late NES titles that were released when the Super NES was just starting to roll out, R.C. Pro-Am II is perhaps the most...