I'm sorry, but this isn't Rare.  It's Rare IP, but the talent is mostly gone.  If not talent, the personality, the flare, the life and soul. 

But, I am happy to see that Rare IP, if that, will be making comebacks.  I truly hope they can breathe life into these old franchise I grew up with. 

Who knows, maybe we'll see a new life and soul to this 'New Rare'.  I'm excited.

I don't really know why op posted a old news,it's from 2012 May

This is great "news". Making new IP's is better than risk shitting on their old IP's, in my opinion. Given all the great developers they have hired, I wouldn't be surprised if these new IP's all have great success.

Let's see where this goes.

Sure Kinect Sports was fun, in the same kind of way like Wii Play - but almost every single person who knows a little something about games would say that Rare used to be better (well, every one who were around in 16-bit and 64-bit era). And isn't it quite obvios that they NEED to get new talent in? They've lost so many of the people that made Rare great.

Hopefully they get their act together and shows us just how great they can be - like they used to be! We are all agreeing that this is good news. But why is it good news? Because they haven't done anything remotely close to how good they used to be in quite awhile. New talent is great for Rare because they need it, and it shows in their games. So we're not bashing. We're agreeing!

Well I see it happening. Since Banjo/Viva Pinata 2 they only released a couple Kinect Sports games.

4 years to only make 2 casual titles???? Obviously they got something else up their sleeves.

Simply because nobody has talked about this on this website before.  As you can see most people didn't know this was going on.  

I'm not really sure why everybody hates Rare now. Do they make as good as games as what they did with the N64? No, but they still make great games and have made plenty of solid games since being with Microsoft. In fact I'll go so far as saying they have yet to make a bad game. While they weren't stellar they are still good games.

I wish them the best.

Do Banjo Threeie to shake the gaming world! Them try new things.

A Banjo game done right would get so many great scores, critics are dying for it, you can feel the tension in the air.

First Underline: So MS tried the Sony approach of blindly pumping out different games, realizing that was a money pit, and now adopts the big name exclusive approach, 3rd party buyouts for multiplat edge, and XBLA becomes the basis for creativity and variety in the 360 library. Sounds good to me.

2nd: Sounds like bad PR. "Expanding the landscape"? lol cmon. Sony has been no better then MS this gen in that regard. If anything they are worse because Move failed to capture any interest from core or casual gamers. MS partners with indie guys with vision, much more so.

3rd: Now I take serious issue with this. XBLA is MS biggest asset next to Halo. Just because 360 fans dont hype up to the heavens their amazing XBLA titles and PS3 fans hype the few great PSN games to the heavens, doesnt excuse this comment. Nevermind two of those games were made by a dev that recently went multiplat. Dead nation isnt even in the 80's on metacritic. Trials Evolution, Mark of The Ninja, Super Meat Boy, Geometry Wars 2.....all 90 meta games. High 80s you got Rez HD, Fez, Shadow Complex, Ikaruga.....I could go on and on and on. Lets not forget Minecraft, sold 4 million and counting, one of the most creative and influential indie games of our generation. Multiplat...yes. Not on PS3.....damn right it isnt. I aint buying the artsy approach your selling me about PSN.

You are well aware MS has opened new studios and continues to sign deals with indie devs for the next big XBLA titles. They also tend to get one big IP every gen. Xbox 1 had Halo, Xbox 360 got Gears, who knows what mega hit they will get this next gen? Either way, MS has done brialliant business and they are in a far better game maker position then they ever were. By comparison, Sony is the one learning the hard way, doing various cutbacks of dead weight developers they own.

I hope they bring back Killer Instinct, that is a game that I really miss from rare. Banjo and Conker's would be amazing returns too.

I don't believe that a FPS game would be so great just because they made Goldeneye almost 20 years ago. Goldeneye was a revolution at this time, now there is already a lot of competition with several new things.