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'''Rare Ltd.''' is a British video game developer that created the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series. They are also best known for developing some other games, including ''[http://mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_Country Donkey Kong Country]'' and ''{{wp|Goldeneye 007}}''. | |||
Prior to the Nintendo GameCube era, Rare was a second party developer for [[Nintendo]], meaning all of their were exclusively published on Nintendo consoles. In September 2002, [[Microsoft]] bought the entire company from Nintendo. Since then, Rare has been a first party developer for Microsoft, and would exclusively publish their home console titles on Xbox systems, including ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]''. | |||
Since Xbox has no portable competitor, Rare's handheld still developed some titles for the [[Game Boy Advance]], including ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]'' and ''[[Banjo-Pilot]]''. Their handheld division was shut down in 2008, leaving for no future handheld installments of ''Banjo-Kazooie''. | |||
==Gallery== | |||
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Rareware logo.jpg|Rareware logo (1994-2003) | |||
Rare logo 2003.png|Rare logo (2003-2010) | |||
</gallery> | |||
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