Rare Ltd.

Rare, Ltd., also known simply as Rare and, formerly, Rareware, is a British video game development company. They have developed a huge amount of games. Many were for Nintendo, but the company is now owned by Microsoft. Rare has two studios: one in Twycross, in Leicestershire, England and one in Digbeth, in Birmingham, England.

Critisism
Sadly Rare has lost many dedicated fans that supported games like Donkey Kong and Banjo-Kazooie (as seen as in this Wikia articles background). Notably Rare has won many awards from its popular Kinect Sports games avaliable for the Microsoft consoles. Many people also state that the company is trying to "hide" its past of many famous games published under Nintendo. The Nintendo 3DS game Donkey Kong 64 3D was leaked to release soon, but classical Rare fans started to hate the fact that it was going to just be anther re-release like the release of the not so popular game, "Diddy Kong Racing 64 DS". Rare's "RareLimited" YouTube account also has plenty of mixed reactions from fans from all around many countrys, about Kinect Sports titles. Rare disabled the comments as dislikes started building up. So far Rare, Ltd. has ignored the issues from upset (or angry and heartbroken) fans.

History
Rare was founded in 1982 by Tim and Chris Stamper. They published their games as Ultimate Play The Game, for 8-bit consoles like the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and BBC Micro. In 1995, Rareware made an agreement with Nintendo, and began publishing games for them. In 2002, Microsoft bought Rareware. Since then, Rareware has made console games strictly for Microsoft, but also made handheld games for Nintendo, by publishing them through THQ. During the summer of 2010, Rareware opened a new studio in Digbeth, in Birmingham, England.

While working for Microsoft, Rare has also helped create the Xbox Live Avatars. They have stated that they are focusing more on Microsoft's new controller-free peripheral, Kinect. Rare's first game to be released for Kinect was Kinect Sports, a disappointing game for many fans. Most of Rare developers left the company, and the same games maker may be closed soon.http://www.gamepron.com/news/2011/02/15/rumour-rare-ltd-on-the-way-out/#ixzz1ELjvyW43

Famous Games

 * Jetpac (1983)
 * Sabre Wulf series (1984)
 * Battletoads (1991)
 * Donkey Kong Country (1994)
 * Killer Instinct (1994)
 * Goldeneye 007 (1997)
 * Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
 * Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
 * Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
 * Perfect Dark (2000)
 * Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
 * Star Fox Adventures (2002)
 * Kameo: Elements of Power (2005)
 * Viva Piñata (2006)

Famous Members

 * Tim and Chris Stamper: The original founders of the company. They left in January of 2007 to pursue "other opportunities".
 * Grant Kirkhope: Composer for most of Rare's Nintendo 64 games, and also the composer of Rare's most recent games. Possibly most famous for the music of Banjo-Kazooie. He left Rare in July of 2008, to work with THQ's studio, Big Huge Games, as audio director.
 * Robin Beanland: Composer for many of Rare's games. He was also the composer for Conker's Bad Fur Day (and its remake, Conker: Live & Reloaded) and co-wrote the script with Chris Seavor.
 * Chris Seavor: Originally working as a graphic designer for Rare, he eventually designed Conker's Bad Fur Day. He co-wrote the script with Robin Beanland, and voiced many of the characters, including Conker. He also voiced Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare in Star Fox Adventures.
 * Martin Hollis: Left in 1998 and began working with Nintendo on the GameCube. He eventually formed the company Zoonami.
 * David Doak: Left after Hollis and helped form Free Radical Design, the company behind the Timesplitters franchise.
 * Kevin Bayliss': Co-character design and animation, motion capture.