March 1st, 2008 by hylian1
The speculation is over. The waiting is done. The ‘top secret projects’ we’ve been touting for the past six months have come to fruition and now rest before your very eyes. Welcome to the NEW Rare-Elite!
Embracing a unique and unmatched blog design like no other, Rare-Elite combines the likes of its new blog format with an incredibly massive and ever growing wiki known as the Rare Fandabase. Our goal with this new format is to breathe fresh life into an otherwise stale site and offer more news, more content, and more exclusives than ever before.
What’s new?
-The Design: This particular design was developed by Mario Paiano, better known as Lupaie, a professional media designer who joined Rare-Elite late last year as a member of the forums and was chosen to create the new design based on his unique and creative work on past projects. As a long-time, dedicated fan of Rare, it was Mario’s goal to establish an unforgettable design that Rare themselves would be pleased with for all their years of developing incredible games. I would say he has achieved just that, wouldn’t you?
-The Rare Fandabase: The Fandabase is a wiki database that will continually grow over time providing an unlimited resource of information, media including exclusive screenshots and videos and other forms of Rare related material covering every title that Rare has ever developed. Through browsing, you will also find several exclusives that can’t be found elsewhere such as the Rare-Elite Comics and Stop N Swop Station. Visit regularly as new additions will be added on a daily/weekly basis.
-Our Community: One of Rare-Elite’s key aspects is striving to build an online community where fellow Rare fans can effectively communicate their love for the developer and the many games they have provided for us throughout these many years. You’ll find no better place than the Rare-Elite forums. Registration is absolutely free and will provide you with the access to join in on the countless discussions in the forums’ many boards spanning all of Rare’s games and beyond.
-Commenting: While it has never been a focus in the past, we are now placing a broader emphasis on the usage of our new comment system. Commenting requires no registration but does require that you leave a name and e-mail address with the option of including your website as well. In doing so you can share your thoughts on the many news stories, reviews, and articles that will soon be infiltrating these pages.
To summarize, Rare-Elite is now presenting to you this new, outstandish design, the Fandabase for all your content, media, and other obligatory needs, a growing community to converse with fellow Rare fans and occasional developers from Rare, and a commenting system built for you for specifically expressing your opinions.
You want it, Rare-Elite has it. Welcome to the NEW Rare-Elite!
I guess even elevators are deserving of the list treatment these days. At least that’s what Bulletpoints believes. Their list includes the ‘Most Spectacular Elevator Sequences in Gaming of All-Time’. Perfect Dark was the final entry as the title of this story insists, but sadly, no mention of Conker or Goldeneye’s elevator sequences. Perfect Dark’s may be much cooler, but who could forget the classic “oh god, not elevator music” of Goldeneye or Conker having to fight off those strange mechanicle crabs?
As a part of their latest GT Countdown entry, Gametrailers rounded up their picks for gaming’s finest (ten) years. Unsurprisingly, the years 1997 and 1998, both years of what many consider to be some of Rare’s greatest titles, made the list- specifically, Goldeneye (1997) and Banjo-Kazooie (1998).
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 
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