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UK Xbox studio enabling pirate capers in @seaofthieves.com. Also made some other games you might know.

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Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2w ago

Good week? Well it's about to get even better, because here's that #FanArtFriday post you've been waiting for! Oh yes you have. Just look at that Conker and Berri by HansCuff, and the superb @seaofthieves.com group from ArtsLupi, both of Twitter. LOVELY! Go and appreciate them, right now.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A piece of fan art shows Conker and Berri from Conker's Bad Fur Day posed next to each other. Text reads: Art by Hans-Cuff, @HansCuff.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A piece of fan art shows three pirates and a parrot. Text reads: Art by LupiArts, @LupiArts.
Sea of Thieves@seaofthieves.com · 2w ago

Sea of Thieves is free to play from now until September 21st! To celebrate #TalkLikeAPirateDay, we're giving everyone the perfect playground in which to practise their piratical parlance, so invite friends and family, wherever they play, to join you and set sail!

Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 3w ago

So, who's been hitting SharpClaws on the head this week? Anyone for the first time? We look back fondly on Star Fox Adventures - yes, even Prince Tricky - so it's great to see it on Nintendo Switch 2. Remember: you can activate widescreen in the options before you load a file!

A grubby looking Switch 2 is placed 'artistically' over blue and yellow sheets. The photographer has no ring light, this was actually a pain, don't be too harsh. Please. The dust just kept appearing.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 4w ago

The piratey, Dream-inspired Banjo and Kazooie comes from Tumblr's MewyMarsher while the moody @seaofthieves.com Servant of the Flame is by VampFlore, also of the place named after a cup. And that's #FanArtFriday for another week, as time marches unstoppably on. Have a nice weekend!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A piece of fan art features a colourful image of the bear and bird Banjo and Kazooie in slightly more piratey attire, with Banjo brandishing a sword. Text reads: Art by MewyMarsher, mewymarsher.tumblr.com.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A piece of fan art features a masked pirate in striking black and red clothes which feature a gold trim. They also wear a mask of gold. Text reads: Art by VampFlore, vampflore.tumblr.com.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

Football's done so let's get back to our regular, hashtag-mandated appreciation. #FanArtFriday this week comes from Twitter/X, with smashing Battletoads work by gaspitoon and a terrifying SeaOfThieves vision by Captain_Shadow8. Good Stuff, now have a Good Weekend, Or Else.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A piece of fan art features a colourful image of the Battletoads Pimple, Zits, and Rash, all rendered with big muscles and even bigger grins, somehow, all posing in front of a neon explosion. Text reads: Art by Gaspar F., @gaspitoon.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A piece of fan art features a sketch of a gigantic Kraken head and tentacles emerging next to a Galleon, which is only about as big as the tip of one of the creatures appendages. Text reads: Art by Captain_Shadow, @Captain_Shadow8.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

And that's football! Over £63,000 raised for @specialeffect.org.uk, and a lovely 11-1 victory for Rare Ltd over Playground Games in the final match - powerful! An almighty thank you to anyone who said hi in chat, those who helped make it happen and everyone who took part.

The final results of One Big Game 2026. Special Effect North 8, Special Effect South 3. Leamington Select 6, Behaviour Interactive 5. Activision 2, EA 3. Jagex 2, Score More with Xbox 1. Rare 7, Lighthouse 1. Order of Goals North 6, Order of Goals South 3. Maverick + Friends 3, Playground + Rare 4. Flix 4, Ubisoft + Playtonic 8. Game Industry North 4, Games Industry South 5. Rare 6, Order of Goals 3. Lucid 0, First Touch Games 2. Women of Rare 11, Women of Playground 1.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

#FanArtFriday post! Pair from Instagram this week: @seaofthieves.com scene by gutasvo.hms and Gruntilda puppet from scowlenes. If we could wish for anything, it would be more puppets. Well, if we could have anything, we'd probably wish for a curry, but more puppets is a close second.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a colourful painting of a pirate ship next to an island. The ship is white and black, with sails showing large skulls. Text reads: Art by Gustavo, instagram.com/gutasvo.hms.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed photo on the right shows a large puppet of Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie, a green witch in black clothes with a large purple scarf. Text reads: Art by Scowlene, instagram.com/scowlenes.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

One Big Game is soon (August 13th-14th)! 24 hours of livestreamed footie played by games industry folk of varying skill! Raising money for @specialeffect.org.uk! But don't just take our exclamations for it, squidge your peepers around this video for a look at what it's all about:

Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

Creatures huge and papery fill the #FanArtFriday frames this week thanks to this duo from Instagram. The big, hungry @seaofthieves.com Megalodon is from similyjay while the model of a petite Viva Piñata Pretztail is the work of ivoryshiek. And that's it for another week. G'bye!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pirate leaping from a Rowboat as a huge, white Megalodon with red eyes bites through where the boat used to be. Text reads: Art by Simily, instagram.com/similyjay.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a 3D model of the fox-shaped Piñata from Viva Piñata, known as a Pretztail. Text reads: Art by Benny T-w, instagram.com/ivoryshiek.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

Now that the World Cup is over, we can finally announce this year's true major ball-punting event: One Big Game is back! After a year off, the @rare.co.uk-organised 24-hour games industry footy marathon returns August 13th-14th to raise more dosh for @specialeffect.org.uk. Details soon!

Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 2mo ago

Been a couple of weeks since we've had one so who's ready for an eye-massaging #FanArtFriday!? Oh yeah, you definitely are, person looking at these words. Behold the pastel @seaofthieves.com beauty from KaoChimo, then enjoy the bold hues of JJSponge120's Gruntilda, both from Twitter/X. FEEL RELAXED!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a Sea of Thieves crew rendered in a chibi style with pastel colours. Text reads: Art by Kao, @KaoChimo.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a rendition of the warty witch Gruntilda, rubbing her hands together and grinning. Text reads: Art by JJSponge120, @JJSponge120.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 3mo ago

Our annual Pride Picnic encouraged staff to brave the UK heat in the name of #PrideMonth! The bright and bold celebrations served as a beautiful reminder that Rare welcomes everyone (and the factor 50 sunscreen on offer kept everyone's skin un-singed during the celebrations too).

Those colourful cakes we mentioned on the previous image? Here's they're at the front of the table, their rainbow icing on full display. They were shortly moved further back on the table, away from the deadly laser known as the Sun.A line of Rare staff deal with extreme heat as they wait for their extremely tasty luncheon. Wear suncream, kids!An Instagram perfect picnic basket of scones and strawberries sits on a blue tablecloth, some colourful cakes behind it. they didn't last long.Picnic food on a red and white picnic blanket! Eggs, sausage roll, cheese straw, a scone with cream on. Idyllic, frankly.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 3mo ago

The Hyper Mega Tech Super Pocket Rare Edition arrives this week! It's got 14 classic Rare games built-in including an optimised version of Banjo-Kazooie, plays @evercade.co.uk carts and we took some lovely photos of ours, just for you. If you're grabbing one, we hope you enjoy it!

A small red, blue and yellow handheld console is running Banjo-Kazooie while being propped up precariously on its box with the Rare Ltd logo in the background. This is at the top of a staircase and it didn't fall, we promise.A small red, blue and yellow handheld console is running Banjo-Kazooie sits on a coffee table next to a cup and some coasters. Imagine playing ten minutes of that on your lunch break or in a Costa? Absolutely decadent behaviour.A small red, blue and yellow handheld console is running Conker's Pocket Tales and propped up against a tree, because the game is about a squirrel and nature or something. Look, not every photo can be inside, the angle of the console is already too repetitive.A small red, blue and yellow handheld console is running Battletoads in Battlemaniacs while resting against a skull. Look, it's very hot and this seemed better than taking a photo next to a pond.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 4mo ago

As Donkey Kong 64 has been on Nintendo Switch Online for a little over a week, we have to ask: has anyone been playing it for the first time!? Many of us here look back on it fondly, and it's fun to see it being rediscovered (with every Kong individually) all these years later.

A photo of a Nintendo Switch 2 running Donkey Kong 64, surrounded by bananas. So many bananas. We're now off to look up banana recipes.
Rare Ltd.@rare.co.uk · 4mo ago

If we can find time to dig about on Instagram to bring you these #FanArtFriday highlights, then you can find time to do that thing you're putting off. Highlights are from supermimobroxx (Marvin from Conker's BFD) and agnes_stelmach (@SeaOfThieves painting). NOW GO DO THAT THING!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a mouse drawn in an angular style, their eyes slightly skew-whiff and tongue lolling out to give a thoughtless expression. Text reads: Art by supermimobroxx, instagram.com/supermimobroxx.A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a painting of two pirates sitting in the hands of a figurehead-like statue of a pirate in a golden mask. Text reads: Art by agnes_stelmach, instagram.com/agnes_stelmach.