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!
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.
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.
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…
During the Summer of last year, forum moderator and site contributor Crystal Bear embarked on a journey to create something unique that Rare-Elite was lacking at the time. What she produced was the Rare-Elite Comics. Beginning today, we will be starting from the beginning and posting a comic each day. For the first month, the comics won’t be "new", so if they seem utterly familiar to you then don’t be surprised. Currently, the comics will not be archived here on the site itself, but rather in the Fandabase; however, if enough of you would rather they be archived here, then we’ll consider getting it done.
So beginning anew, here is the first ever Rare-Elite Comic, ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’:
One of the most unforgettable songs of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest was one that played during the Bramble Blast level. Nintendo took the liberty of fully orchestrating the song and remixing it a bit. Have a listen:
The 1980s. When gaming got its first real start with the consoles that brought video games into the homes: the NES, Spectrum ZX, Atari 2600, and the list goes on. During that decade, countless unforgettable games were released that rocked the foundation of gaming across the world. But of those countless games, which ones among them were the best? The Top 50 best? Next-gen.biz decided to take a stab at it and what they produced could be the most controversial ‘Top 50 games list’ to ever be released.
How did Rare fare? Rare’s (known as ULTIMATE: PLAY THE GAME at that particular time) Lunar Jetman ranked in at #27 followed by…nothing. That was it. Not another single Rare title was accomodated. Where is Jetpac? How about Battletoads? What of Sabrewulf?! Sesame Street 123? Okay…forget that last one. Heck, even Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros., the best selling video game of all-time, failed to be mentioned. Whilst I can’t speak for the rest of you, I would think the above games deserve some place on that list. Next-gen had best have their battle armor donned, as there will be some mighty displeased Rare and Nintendo fans out there who will not take this lightly, opinion or not.
What are your thoughts? Any other Rare games from the 80s you believe are worthy of being listed?
Like most games in the platform genre, Rare’s always tends to include a massive water world of sorts. And in these water worlds to find underwater creatures…like fish, naturally. MTV.com recognized this and decided to list who (or what) is the greatest aquatic video game animals of all time. Ranked among the top 20 are two you’ll surely recognize: the infamous garbage disposing Clanker of Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country’s Lockjaw thrashing Enguarde. Kudos to MTV for not forgetting these two oustanding creatures.
We live. We die. That is life. To us die hard (uhh…no pun intended here) gamers, we spend the majority of our lives seated in front of the teletube playing the dickens out of our favorite games. But how many will we play before our time is up? And did we make the right choices of those games we played? Well, GamesRadar has taken a look at this and came up with a list of the 59 levels in games you absolutely MUST play before you die! Included on this list is the Aztec level from Goldeneye 007. Now, I can understand why it would make the list as it is a greatly designed level that presents a nifty challenge, but it’s so painstakingly difficult it may just be the level that kills you…
For myself, this weekend doesn’t differ very much from last weekend. I’ll frequent Brawl a bit more, Condemned 2 (during the night) and see how much further I can manage to get in Lost Odyssey. Quite the game that. One of the most epic RPGs to be released in sometime that contains emotional elements unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Much excited is I. And you lot? What games are coming from your cupboards to infiltrate those beastly gaming machines?
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’.
A bit late to be postin’ this, eh?
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 
One of the most unforgettable songs of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest was one that played during the Bramble Blast level. Nintendo took the liberty of fully orchestrating the song and remixing it a bit. Have a listen:
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