http://kotaku.com/5279213/microsoft-rare-working-on-numerous-natal-projects

No Banjo Kazooie at E3? No Viva Pinata? Blame Project Natal.

We've been looking for Rare at E3. Microsoft's Shane Kim, corporate v. p. at Microsoft for Xbox 360 strategy and business development, didn't exactly tell us where they are, but he did tell us what they're up to.

"Rare is intimately involved with Project Natal in a number of different dimensions," Kim said, referring to Microsoft's controller-free game control set-up that's been the buzz of E3. "They're doing an awful lot of work, even outside the traditional game space, I would say. Unfortunately I can't go into a lot of detail about that. Rare is alive and well and really having a broader impact on the entire Xbox world than just doing the games they traditionally have in the past."

Rare's most recent publicly shown projects were last year's Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts and Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. Rare also created the Avatar system launched last last year across all Xbox 360s.

Launch games for Natal, Christmas 2010. Makes sense!

As long as they're not intimately involved with Milo. That is almost certainly illegal.

They're probably making The Fast and Furriest, I think it was a XBLA game using the vision camera.

i never said it outloud but i totally called this. to me it makes sense seeing as rare was responsible for avatars and all. looks like to me that MS is giving all the internal projects to Rare so you should probably expect a pretty sparse release schedule from them in terms of retail games.

But it's okay to be intimately involved with a bear and a bird, at the same time?

Only in the Netherlands.

lol ps3fanboys said NAtal is going fail because it won't have no support from developers.

Bungie
Epic games
Rare
Lionhead
Big park

Making games for Natal as we speak.

Interesting. Probably moving all first party casual development into Natal projects.

Killer Instinct with Natal??? >:D ????