March 31st, 2008 by hylian1

Early last week, we reported that the ladies of Rare weren’t sexy enough for GameDaily’s ‘Top 25 Gaming Babes of All-Time’ list. In that article, a sly comment was made toward those that have an odd tendency to love things with a lot of fur. As if in response to our comment, GamesRadar went on to list the ‘Top 10 sexy lady beasts of gaming’.

On the bright side, three of the characters here were created by Rare. Those being Krystal from Starfox Adventures, Candy Kong from Donkey Kong Country, and Berri from Conker: Live and Reloaded. The furverts love you lots!

March 29th, 2008 by Banjo-Conker

A bit late to be postin’ this, eh?

In Major Nelson’s most recent Xbox Live Activity Update, Conker: Live and Reloaded was marked #10, as one of the original Xbox’s most played games. And while the title has yet to reach any higher than that, I’m glad to see that folks are still diggin’ this game after two years.

March 27th, 2008 by hylian1

In late December, Banjo-Conker was diagnosed with brain cancer that has kept him in constant trips to the hospital over the last few months. Having recently undergone surgery to help relieve the pain, the procedure failed to relenquish the pain he has had to endure. Sadly, the doctors later told him that he, essentially, may have only a few more months left to live. With that in mind, the doctors have given him an option to go through brain surgery in hopes of once again relieving his pain and, potentially, annihilating the cancer.

Brain surgery is a very dangerous procedure with the possibility that, those who undergo it, may never return. I ask that you all keep him in your minds and prayers that he will return safely.

Update: Some of you were asking when the surgery was to begin. I apologize for failing to mention it, but it was actually supposed to begin last night. So the surgery is either over by now or the doctors are still working on him.

March 27th, 2008 by hylian1

March 27th, 2008 by hylian1

There are, literally, tens of thousands of video games that have been developed over the past thirty years. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that a lot of those games have aged quite terribly when compared to today’s standards. GamesRadar took a stabe at ten of those games that have been "lost to antiquity". How does Rare fit into this? With Perfect Dark Zero naturally.

PDZ in all actuality really has aged fairly bad in comparison to a lot of other games released this generation, though I suppose a bit of slack could be given considering it was a launch title afterall. But still, opting for characterization that reminds me of plastic barbie dolls wasn’t the best design choice in my opinion. Hopefully with the next installment Rare will return the franchise to its Goldeneye/Perfect Dark 64 roots, then perhaps won’t see it condemned to one of these lists…