Thanks to these titles, Rare has become as synonymous with gaming as its iconic wireframe logo is to nostalgia, so iam8bit ...

Those are our favorite games from Rare's four decades of history. There are a lot of great games that we didn't mention, so ...

The celebration of 40 years of Rare by Xbox (Microsoft) has not pleased fans of the studio, the creator of Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, and Conker.

Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot, first announced in 2022, has been canceled. Its developer, The Initiative, is also shutting down, Microsoft has confirmed. First reported by Windows Central and ...

Perfect Dark is one of several major upcoming PC games that have been scrapped this year already. Monolith suffered a similar fate to The Initiative, with its Wonder Woman game getting axed and ...

Perfect Dark Zero: The Awful Redesign of a Gaming Icon Image courtesy of xcagegame Let’s get one thing straight: Perfect Dark Zero isn’t a completely terrible game.

Released in 2000, the original Perfect Dark was published and developed by Rare as a spiritual successor to GoldenEye 007, but it was able to carve out a path all its own, registering positive ...

The troubled Perfect Dark reboot is canceled and Xbox studio The Initiative has shut down amid devastating layoffs sweeping across Microsoft today, sources have told IGN.

Perfect Dark, Everwild Canceled at Microsoft, Initiative Closes Home Gaming News Jul 2, 2025 10:08am PT ...

Xbox has reportedly cancelled its reboot of Perfect Dark and shut down developer The Initiative as a result. Xbox has been heavily criticized over the years for not being able to match PlayStation ...

Amid wide-ranging layoffs at Microsoft, Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot has reportedly been canceled and its studio, The Initiative, shuttered. It's also being reported that Forza Motorsport developer ...

Source: Xbox Game Studios Perfect Dark was announced in 2020 at The Game Awards. Microsoft created a new internal studio, The Initiative, to lead development on the project.