Speaking to VideoGamer.com at the Develop conference in Brighton last week, Nick Burton, a senior software engineer at Rare, revealed that currently announced Rare titles only account for half the development studio.

Asked directly if Rare would be making a second Kameo title Burton replied: "This is where I have to be enigmatically vague. Never say never. I'll say that I'm not working on one at the moment. I'm not working on one at the moment. Doesn't mean nobody else is, but that doesn't mean they are either. Sorry. For the obvious PR reasons we can't talk about what we're doing now."

He went on to suggest that there's plenty going on behind closed doors at Rare that should have gamers getting very excited.

"All I can say is, you know about VP2 (Viva Piñata Trouble in Paradise), Viva Piñata on DS, Banjo obviously. There's a couple of things on the roster that are going to be pretty cool as well. Obviously you do the math. Look at the size and how big the Banjo team currently needs to be, how big our shared technology group and asset group are. Look at the number of games and how they're staggered and how many teams we have. There's about half the studio missing from the release schedule at the moment (laughs)," said Burton.
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SEASON 3 of OzBoxLive Radio has just started and we decided to make our first Game Night for the season a PLAYERS CHOICE.

You get to choose what Game we will be playing. Any game on the Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade or Xbox Original that supports 8 Players (or more) online.

On Sunday 20th of JULY at 8PM (AEST) we will have our next OzBoxLive Game Night.

Voting ends JULY 12th and it looks like Bomberman Live is in the lead followed by Perfect Dark Zero.

Note: Must be living in Australia or NewZealand inorder to have minimal lag.

Look forward to the fun night ahead.

The OzBoxLive team.
www.OzBoxLive.com
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XboxFamily has posted what is reported to be a screenshot of Microsoft's FTP which shows recently added assets for Conker Live and Reloaded, Fable, Jade Empire, and two older Xbox 360 games.

The article speculates that since the 360 titles are already Platinum Hits, it's uncommon for old assets to be added to the FTP and believes these titles could be made available for download.
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More images and videos found on an ex-Rare employee's website gets leaked across the Internet. 2 videos from the original Xbox version of Perfect Dark Zero is shown, along with lots of screen shots.
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Oct 15, 2007 A third console installment in Rare's Perfect Dark franchise will be revealed sometime next year, claims a report on games site GameGuru. The site, claiming sources within Rare, says the British developer is hard at work on a sequel to the original N64 shooter (rather than another PDZ-style prequel) and it'll have something to show of the game by the end of next year. According to Guru, the story will feature more prominently this time around with a Darker, grittier Joanna Dark. ...
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A frustrated gamer has employed a clever method of unlocking one of Xbox 360's more mundane Achievement awards - just build a pad-hugging robo friend to do the boring work for you. David Harr, a mechanic from Seattle, had one final task to complete in Perfect Dark Zero: Play 2,000 offline matches. As an achievement, this clocks in at a whopping 40 hours of spirit crushing menu juggling nonsense as you start and then quit, and then start another game in the desperate hunt for those 60 precious ...
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If you're a fan of the Xbox 360's Platinum Hits line up, then you'll be glad to hear that four more games will soon be added to that list.

According to Xbox Japan, the Platinum Hits line will now include:

Chromehounds
Burnout Revenge
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Perfect Dark Zero
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Major Nelson just released on his blog the top Xbox Live games of 2006

Here are the top games for 2006, based on Xbox Live connectivity.
The following rankings are based on data collected from 1/1/06 ¿ 12/29/06:

2006 Top Xbox 360 Titles (UU's)
1 Gears of War
2 Hexic HD
3 Call of Duty 2
4 Ghost Recon 3
5 Oblivion
6 PGR3
7 Perfect Dark Zero
8 Call Of Duty 3
9 UNO
10 EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3
11 Saints Row
12 Geometry Wars Evolved
13 DEAD OR ALIVE 4
14 Texas Hold 'em
15 Madden NFL 07
16 DEAD RISING
17 Need for Speed Most Wanted
18 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas
19 BFMC
20 Splinter Cell Double Agent

Arcade titles and Xbox 1 rankings after the jump
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Kicking off Microsoft's line of lower-priced, uglier-cased Platinum Hits Editions, Xbox 360 shooter Perfect Dark Zero will get a pack-in of six extra multiplayer maps - including remakes of classic deathmatch grounds Ruin and Facility. The other four maps were released earlier in the year as an Xbox Live download but Rare shooter fans should welcome the two classic Perfect Dark maps - especially Facility, which hearkens back to GoldenEye and has provided many hundreds of hours of toilet ...
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Users can now download a map pack containing two classic maps from the N64 version of the game.

Microsoft and developer Rare have announced today that Perfect Dark Zero owners will be able to download a new map pack containing two maps from the original game of the series on the Nintendo 64. In November, Xbox Live users will be able to download for free the pack containing both Facility and Ruin maps from the original release.

Both maps set to be made available are complete remakes of the original N64 versions complete with updated, high resolution graphics.
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