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Rare Ltd.@rare· 6d

Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, together on one @evercade.co.uk cartridge, oh what a beauty! Available October 30th and works in any Evercade device, so you can play Tooie on your Super Pocket Rare Edition's D-Pad if you really want to. Details here: evercade.co.uk/cartridges/b...

Rare Ltd.@rare· 7d

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· 12d

Conker: Live & Reloaded's marvellous fuzz launching on XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC last week led to @steveburkemusic.bsky.social unearthing this recording session for the 2005 game, featuring young @robinbeanland.bsky.social own marvellous fuzz! Enjoy this rare peek behind the curtain...

Rare Ltd.@rare· 18d

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· 22d

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· 25d

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· Jun 26

Start #FanArtFriday post. Something about the heat. Pithy remark about the sun. Sentence about these images coming from Instagram. Conker and Berri by super.butter.scotch. @seaofthieves.com pirate by nurukk0. Final remark about now being a puddle. End post.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very green-tinted drawing of Conker and Berri from Conker's Bad Fur Day in their Matrix-inspired gear from a scene near the end of the game. Text reads: Art by Scotch, instagram.com/super.butter.scotch/.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a cartoony pirate, leaning on their knee they have up on a rock, as they survey the scene. Text reads: Art by Nurukko, instagram.com/nurukk0.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Jun 25

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· Jun 23

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 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· Jun 19

Side by side, hand in hand, we all enjoy #FanArtFriday together! And what a pair from Twitter/X today: Banjo and '80s glam Kazooie from JuJuBee2008 and a peaceful @seaofthieves.com pair by the prolific hasmoq. Right, done, off you hop!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows an elated bear in yellow shorts, holding aloft a golden jigsaw piece, while the red bird sitting in his backpack looks somewhat unimpressed. Text reads: Art by Jujubee, @JuJuBee2008.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pink haired pirate sitting in a Rowboat looking serene next to a pig in quite fancy clothes. The sun can be seen setting far behind them. Text reads: Art by Hasmoq, @hasmoq.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Jun 15

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· Jun 12

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.

Rare Ltd.@rare· May 8

We're seeing red. No, it's not the bloodlust setting in, it's just some #FanArtFriday highlights that share a big splash of the shade. From Twitter, the realistic Viva Piñata Sour Mallowolf is by GhosteBoergre while the @seaofthieves.com Madame Olivia piece is from Similyjay.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a realistic interpretation of Viva Piñata's Sour Mallowolf, all red with glowing yellow eyes and a snarling jaw full of jagged teeth. Text reads: Art by GhosteBoergre, @GhosteBoergre.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a sketch of Sea of Thieves' Madame Olivia, a mystic with Kraken ink flowing from her eyes, who wears a purple dress, brown corset and makes sure to have a skull accessory on her hip. Text reads: Art by Similyjay, @Similyjay.

Rare Ltd.@rare· May 1

We're about to saunter off for a three-day weekend, but not before blessing your optic nerves with these #FanArtFriday beauts! From Instagram, the Viva Piñata Pretztail is the work of blackzodiacqx while the @seaofthieves.com duo is the work of both ghastly.demon and megaboatman.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a colourful rendition of the Pretztail from Viva Piñata, bounding with a big smile on its face. Text reads: Art by blackzodiacqx, instagram.com/blackzodiacqx/

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows two Sea of Thieves pirates, one lower in the frame, bedraggled green hair framing a face in quiet, happy pondering as they fiddle with their hook, while another eerily dressed pirate looms behind them, clawed hands reaching out. Text reads: Art by ghastly.demon & megaboatman, instagram.com/ghastly.demon/

Rare Ltd.@rare· Apr 30

Spotted as we drove onto the @rare.co.uk grounds this morning: strolling geese. Baby geese! POTENTIALLY WARRING FAMILIES OF GEESE! Well, hopefully not, but we've seen less aggressive glares in a boxing ring. Plenty of grass to go around now, no need to get feisty...

A family of greylag geese enjoy a morning stroll. One parent and the goslings are having a snack of nutritious grass, while the other parent looks down its beak with nothing but murder on its mind.

A family of Canada geese enjoy a walk by the lake in the morning sun. One parent and the goslings nibble some grass for breakfast, while the other parent glares to the left of the frame with the malcontent of generations.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Apr 24

Good day fine Internet-scrolling person, please indulge us for a fine #FanArtFriday Twitter duo! Or don't, we're not your legal guardian. We will glare at you as you leave, mind. The Banjo-Kazooie piece is by Mar_Mar_Up and the cursed @seaofthieves.com pirate comes from KyarytaArt!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very stylish rendition of the bear and bird Banjo and Kazooie. Kazooie is shouting at Banjo, seemingly trying to fly as Banjo puts a lot of weight on the backpack she sits in, reaching down towards the sky and clearly not really thinking. Text reads: Art by Mar Mar, @Mar_Mar_Up.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pirate sitting on a cannon. They're holding something that looks like a key as pink hair flows in the wind. A blue curse stains their face, skin and arm on their left side. Text reads: Art by Kyaryta Art, @KyarytaArt.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Apr 17

A tiger and a trio walk into a #FanArtFriday, which is an impressive feat for two pieces of art from Tumblr and a hashtag, but we needed some sort of intro didn't we? The Viva Piñata Tigermisu comes from millies-theme, while the @seaofthieves.com pirate crew is by snypi. GOOD STUFF!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a tiger, relaxing in the shade. Closer inspection shows that it's made of paper, and is in fact a Tigermisu from Viva Piñata! Text reads: Art by millies-theme, tumblr.com/millies-theme

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a group of three pirates looking at you from a ship. Each pirate has their own style - the one on the left is shirtless but tattooed and wears a belt with a buckle of crab claws, the one in the middle wears a classic jacket and a wide-brimmed hat decorated with a white feather, while the third has a peg leg, a taller hat with a bigger, orange feather and a jacket with very prominent lapels. Text reads: Art by snypi, tumblr.com/snypi

Rare Ltd.@rare· Apr 10

#FanArtFriday's here again bringing the colours, you just need to bring the exuberant praise! Preferably over on Instagram, where these came from. Go and big up the Battletoads piece on jcpxdesigns's page and angle Sea of Thieves sweetness towards maria_ronold_artwork. Thanks!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very exaggerated interpretation of an anthropomorphic Battletoad crashing a futuristic Turbo Bike while sunglasses fly from his head and his eyes bulge out. Text reads: Art by jcpxdesigns, instagram.com/jcpxdesigns.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pirate lying on their side, propped up on an elbow and resting their other hand on a raised knee. Said pirate is wearing simple clothes, and their skin is blotched with some sort of blue and purple affliction. Text reads: Art by maria_ronold_artwork,

Rare Ltd.@rare· Mar 27

It may be Community Weekend in @seaofthieves.com, but right here it's time for a good old #FanArtFriday. A pair from Twitter/X this week, with the extremely characterful Banjo and Kazooie from DanDarkOne and a somewhat scary pirate from those aforementioned waters by ZoranDaemon.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows the bear and bird characters Banjo and Kazooie leaping into the air and reaching for a golden jigsaw piece. Banjo looks appropriately in awe, while Kazooie appears livid. Text reads: Art by Dan Dark, @DanDarkOne.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pirate with a menacing grin and a white eye in dapper pirate-themed clothes, raising a sword in your direction. Text reads: Art by The Lord of Autumn, @ZoranDaemon.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Mar 20

Our beloved Sea of Thieves is eight, and Instagram's gemmajohnsonart bestowed a beautiful bronze parakeet on us to celebrate! Also getting a #FanArtFriday highlight is Instagram's jrlunadesigns with their minimal, but still-intimidating, Fulgore from Killer Instinct. LOVELY.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a bronze parrot inspired by Sea of Thieves, flying past palm trees with coins and cakes in them. Text reads: Art by GemmaJohnsonArt, instagram.com/gemmajohnsonart.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Mar 20

We first encouraged people to set sail into our silly adventure-filled pirate sandbox @seaofthieves.com eight whole years ago, and we celebrated that this week with CAKE! And NOTEBOOKS! Both were delicious. A sincere thank you to everyone who's ever played in the past 2920 days 💙💛

A very tall cake inspired by Sea of Thieves. The swirly icing is a gradient of green to blue, while black Kraken tentacles rise from the base and curl over the top, among official models based on the game. It looked nowhere near this impressive two minutes later once a knife was introduced to it and now this is the only memory we have of it. Photos are precious.

Three navy notebooks sit on a table dressed in a Sea of Thieves branded tablecloth. The notebooks also feature a bronze emblem of a gryphon with an eight emblazoned on its hind quarters. Correcting that to a nine for next year will be easy, at least.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Mar 10

It was Conker's Bad Fur Day's 25th anniversary last week, and to mark the occasion @robinbeanland.com, the original composer of that bawdy ordeal, has whipped up a remix of its iconic club music! 'Rock Solid Revitalised' is available now on a bunch of music platforms. Marvellous.

The cheery faces of Conker and Berri, a red squirrel and chipmunk respectively, smile at you over a green grid-like background disappearing into the distance. Title below reads 'Rock Solid Revitalised', and the image also features the logos for Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal and TikTok.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Mar 6

Here comes #FanArtFriday, swanning in like it owns the place. And it's brought two works of art from Tumblr with it and all; Hanging-Bottle's @seaofthieves.com Gold Hoarder stunner and Gamepal's stylish Vela, of Jet Force Gemini fame. The absolute audacity of this hashtag, come on.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows the Gold Hoarder from Sea of Thieves, a skeleton in a large jacket who, true to his name, wears gold jewellery, has a gold coin stuck in his skull and clutches a shovel of the same material. He also has green gems both for eyes and as a common decoration in his other golden elements. He's hunched over his shovel, running coins through the fingers of his right hand Text reads: Art by Hanging-Bottle, tumblr.com/hanging-bottle.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows Vela from Jet Force Gemini, a blue haired soldier looking over her shoulder while holding a smoking red gun known as the Tri-Rocket Launcher, which does exactly what you'd expect. Text reads: Art by Gamepal, gamepal.tumblr.com.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Feb 27

Want to carry 14 @rare.co.uk games in your pocket, but lack the spacious leg wallets of a '90s skater? Enter: The HyperMegaTech Super Pocket Rare Edition! 14 classic Rare titles built-in, Banjo-Kazooie optimised to work on a D-Pad, plays @evercade.co.uk carts, available in June.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Feb 13

Hello! How was your day? You may have answered but this is a non-sentient social media post so... Shall we just get on with it? Yeah. #FanArtFriday! Instagram duo again, with a cranky-looking Conker by Sleepyrr4_ and a @seaofthieves.com pirate with devious eyes from naiamonde.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a pirate looking up at you from under a wide brimmed hat. Their glowing,blue eyes can be seen looking over the tops of their glasses. Text reads: Art by cookie man, instagram.com/naiamonde.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Feb 6

It's morphin' time! No wait, it's #FanArtFriday time! We often get those confused. What's not confusing is how good these beauts are! Look at the Battletoads new and old from @mostlyghostly.bsky.social and the super-detailed @seaofthieves.com scoundrel from @shivawalkerart.bsky.social LOOK AT THEM!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows two cartoony versions of the Battletoad named Rash, one with sunglasses and red wrap on his elbow, and a second with a large chin and only the spiky accessories. Text reads: Art by _Mostly_Ghostly_, mostlyghostly.bsky.social.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a highly detailed drawing of a pirate swinging from the mast of a ship while sailing in a volcanic region. The pirate has fabulous white hair, and the Ashen Curse which means a red glow can be seen under their skin at various points. Text reads: Art by Shiva Walker, shivawalkerart.bsky.social.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Jan 30

Quiet week, yeah? Yeah. We'll just present a thumbs-up to whatever happened via #FanArtFriday, once more from Instagram. The joyous Banjo and Kazooie with the aforementioned raised digit comes from jhonatasueg63, while the detailed @seaofthieves.com piece is by _martiist. Laters!

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a highly detailed image of two pirates walking onto a shore, one supporting the other who appear to have a limp. Behind them, an ominous ship with a maw-like prow stalks the waves. Text reads: Art by _martiist, instagram.com/_martiist.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Jan 23

As we trudge to the end of the seventh week of the month, we offer you a pair of exquisite Instagram #FanArtFriday delights to help take your mind off the temporal anomaly known as January. The Viva Piñata piece comes from avocobbo, while the very junior Reaper is by colourmefun.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a very colourful Viva Piñata scene full of the papery critters from the game. A very happy Dragonache is filling the majority of the image, but they're surrounded by a Buzzlegum, Sparrowmint, Fudgehog, Lickatoad and more. Text reads: Art by Vic, instagram.com/Avocobbo.

A cartoon fridge door with Fan Art Friday in colourful magnets. A framed piece of art on the right shows a rendition of the Sea of Thieves character The Servant of the Flame as if they were a small child, still wearing the same clothes (minus the mask) and playing with a toy boat. Text reads: Art by Danielle, instagram.com/colourmefun.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Jan 16

Our chums at @fangamer.com have been at it again, coming up with a pair of handsome Banjo-Kazooie tributes in pin and blanket form. That's right, a full-on blanket! With the swishy fringe and everything. Proper fancy. Go look: fanga.me/r/new-bk

The corner of a Banjo-Kazooie blanket showing a cute Jinjo among other iconic items from the series, like a backpack, honeycomb and egg.

Photo of the perfect house thanks to its Banjo-Kazooie blanket featuring a sneaking Gruntilda among other iconic imagery from the series, including musical notes, a jigsaw piece and a golden feather. Also in the picture: a cute Banjo-Kazooie soft toy, and a pair of Jinjos among the bookshelves seemingly having existential crises..

The same chair as the previous image, but now the rug is spread over the chair to show the large image of Banjo and Kazooie on it. A straw hat has inexplicably appeared on the chair. The changes in the image have done nothing for the emotional state of the Jinjos.

A Banjo-Kazooie inspired pin badge, which features a little Banjo and Kazooie element that can run around the outside, which is undeniably very cute.

Rare Ltd.@rare· Jan 9

We lowered the sails on the S.S. #FanArtFriday once more, and the first heading for 2026 took us to Instagram where we found Viva Piñata's Leafos by artsyicey and a moody @seaofthieves.com number from maria_ronold_artwork! That'll do nicely, have a good weekend.