By Kate Gray
Don’t worry about Rare. Rare will be fine
Nestled in the East Midlands countryside, surrounded by acres and acres of beautiful greenery, like the Secret Garden of games studios, is Rare HQ. It’s the kind of place you’d expect to find some boutique rehab centre, or the kind of celebrity plastic surgery locale that requires you to arrive by helicopter, all floor-to-ceiling glass and pond-studded vistas that would imply that its developers actually look out of the window from time to time.
It’s the kind of place that gives the impression that Rare is doing well – or at least, has done well in the past. It’s one of the finest and oldest game studios in the UK, especially now that fellow Microsoft-owned studio Lionhead has been “shuttered”, and understandably people are starting to get a little nervous.
Some took the opportunity of Lionhead’s closing to talk passionately about Rare, expressing hope that it wouldn’t meet the same fate. Perhaps the timing was a bit too soon, but they had a point.
A lot of British studios have been struggling in the last year, and it’s understandable that some people have been concerned for Rare. Maybe Britain is becoming a less cost-effective place …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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