http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/g-2005120714192534735107 en http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-181478.aspx Speaking to VideoGamer.com at Develop last week, Rare senior software engineer Nick Burton, an employee at Rare for over 10 years, has revealed that when talking about the studios' owned intellectual property there's a good chance of seeing any of it again. You might see Killer Instinct, you might see Battletoads. Or as I said the other month Killer Instinct meets Battletoads in the GoldenEye universe! joked Burton. The titles the Microsoft owned studio is currently working on is something that's constantly debated on internet forums, and speculation isn't helped by Rare's constant teasing. Do you remember the Rare 2007 Christmas card that hinted at a new Killer Instinct? Burton was all too happy to reveal the story behind the card. You'll probably have to rephrase this, we're just fu!$ing with you! he joked. Have you not noticed a theme in our Christmas cards? We do it every year! It's just sometimes people don't notice it because it's that subtle. Ryan (Stevenson, senior concept artist), when he was doing it said, oh I'm putting Killer Instinct in that, I am. The conversation was, put Battletoads in as well! Or Snake Rattle and Roll, come on do it! We have a reputation for teasing. Sometimes we do it for good reasons and other times it upsets people. We're English, we're allowed to! Burton wouldn't be drawn on confirming the existence of a new Killer Instinct title, but say that you could pick anything in our back catalogue and then turn it into something new. news Aug 8, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-180865.aspx Speaking to VideoGamer.com Rare senior software engineer Nick Burton has revealed that he believes the studio's 360 titles could well be remembered by today's gamers in the same way a generation looks back on N64 classic GoldenEye. When asked if Rare is releasing games now that will have a similar effect on these people as older games did with an older generation of gamers, Burton was confident that they would. I think that already happened, stated Burton. It's funny when you get fan mail. We do. We get quite a bit. Some for old stuff, quite a lot for new stuff. Whether we have as many of them or more, you'll have to ask me in 10 years time. But then again the market's much bigger, it's much more diverse, there's many more games. When asked directly if the games Rare is putting out on the Xbox 360 could be this generation's GoldenEye experience, Burton replied: Could be, yeah. It would be a different experience from GoldenEye without a doubt. news Aug 7, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-180397.aspx Speaking to VideoGamer.com at last week's Develop conference in Brighton, Rare senior software engineer Nick Burton hit out at reports suggesting Xbox 360 launch titles Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero bombed at retail. One of the things that I always find funny is when people always quote Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero as being flops at the launch of the 360, said Burton. In the industry if you break even you're lucky, you're in the minority. If you make a decent amount of money you're really in the minority. You're in the top percentile. Those two games made a lot of money. For the install base they sold phenomenally well. Kameo is still selling now. news Aug 6, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-179829.aspx Speaking to VideoGamer.com at the Develop conference in Brighton last week, Nick Burton, a senior software engineer at Rare, has assured Xbox 360 gamers that there's plenty more to come from the console. You never can push them as far as they can go. The reality of the peak performance of the console is yes, you could look to a generation beyond where we are now and think, yeah, I could use that power. But the reality is in 360 and the PS3 and the latest generation PC graphics, the amount of power in the GPUs is such that you're more bound by your creativity and the aesthetic you're going for than you're really bound by polygon pushing power, said Burton. You're probably actually more bound maybe by art authoring and the amount of data throughput that, just the amount of memory you'd need, but I don't think 360 has reached its limit. news Aug 5, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-179824.aspx 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. news Aug 5, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/f/7-ways-to-spot-an-impending-crap-sequel/a-20080728141042531064/g-2005120714192534735107 Let our foolproof guide help you cut through the crap before it's even released feature Jul 31, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-166473.aspx 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 news Jul 8, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-107506.aspx 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. news Feb 4, 2008 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-104777.aspx 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. news Jan 28, 2008 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/news/perfect-dark-zero-2-microsofts-next-big-gun/a-20071015133029765096/g-2005120714192534735107 Third console shooter from boys at Rare rumored for 2008 news Oct 15, 2007 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/news/robot-earns-xbox-achievement/a-20070227161131765054/g-2005120714192534735107 Time-strapped gamer enlists machine help news Feb 27, 2007 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-24243.aspx 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 news Feb 6, 2007 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-18640.aspx 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 news Jan 2, 2007 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/news/bonus-maps-for-perfect-dark-zero-platinum/a-2006103110281289099/g-2005120714192534735107 Multiplayer fun includes the legendary Facility news Oct 31, 2006 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-13599.aspx 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. news Oct 31, 2006 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-11654.aspx One of the few objections gamers are already making about Gears of War is that there is no jumping. Every time a developer decides to disregard a jumping option, gamers cry a river. Sometimes, gamers are right, such as with Perfect Dark Zero. In other cases, the way the game has been designed requires that there is no option for jumping at all. That's the case of Gears of War. According to Cliff Bleszinski, Gears of War's lead designer, jumping in shooters is reminiscent of the Mario and Sonic era. CliffyB says people jump because it is the fastest way to move throughout a level, but in a game like Gears of War, where you move from cover to cover, you're already jumping-just in the X and Y axes. In the following movie, CliffyB fully explains his reasons for the lack of a jump button in GoW: news Oct 7, 2006 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/news/platinum-hits-360/a-20060920141050736067/g-2005120714192534735107 [360] Value-priced classics collection on its way news Sep 20, 2006 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-8884.aspx It seems Special Editions are all the rage these days. Oblivion had one, Dead Rising had one, Perfect Dark Zero had one, and now Smackdown Vs Raw 2007 has one, but only on the 360. news Sep 14, 2006 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-6182.aspx Microsoft has announced that starting August 14th, and ending September 22nd, gamers will be able to get a free game with their purchase of an Xbox 360. When a system, either Core or Premium, is purchased a gamer will be able to pick from Project Gotham Racing 3, Kameo: Elements of Power, Perfect Dark Zero or Dead or Alive 4. news Aug 10, 2006 http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-5897.aspx Microsoft has been taking support on its first party games seriously, cranking out updates for launch titles Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero. Now third MGS launch title, Bizarre's street racer Project Gotham Racing 3 is up for some extra attention again by hosting another episode of the Game with Fame series, this time with famous DJs. news Aug 7, 2006 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/videos/g-2005120714192534735107/v-200701400000000000000056 video Feb 23, 2006 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/screenshots/g-2005120714192534735107 screenshot Jan 12, 2006 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/screenshots/g-2005120714192534735107 screenshot Jan 12, 2006 http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/perfect-dark-zero/screenshots/g-2005120714192534735107 screenshot Jan 12, 2006