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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Everwild canceled. Perfect Dark reboot canceled. Layoffs at Rare. Gregg Mayles and Lousie O’Conner gone. This hurts. We need to stop pretending Xbox and Microsoft have not mismanaged Rare IP and have been consumed by profit at all cost. Please support Yooka-Replayee, just don’t buy it on Xbox.

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Sources: Banjo-Kazooie, Sea of Thieves director leaves Rare after 35 years, following Everwild cancellation | VGC

Influential designer Gregg Mayles will leave the company…

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello, everyone on BlueSky! Migration complete. Twitter account nuked. Hopefully, with Switch 2 and Yooka-Replaylee around the corner, maybe we can get a Season 5 started of the L.O.G. Cast with some new episodes. Check out some old stuff in the meantime: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/log...

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L.O.G. Cast • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

The L.O.G Cast is rarefriends.net's official podcast! Tune in for game coverage, Rare and Playtonic news, and whatever nonsense pops into our heads.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This will be the last post on Twitter. account is being moved to BluSky: after migration is completed, this account will be deleted.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

David here. Since it seems blue sky is popping off, here's my account there as well.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

David here. I will make 1 final post here when I make a Threads account for Rare & Friends when we ready to do more LogCast again. For now, since I deleted my main Twitter before Threads was a thing, I wanted to let people know where I can be found:

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 02/05/2021

L.O.G. Cast 2.0 is officially here! We are joined by @CaptainBreegull for a community spotlight as well as our long overdue review of @RareLtd s @SeaOfThieves ! Plus Rare Trivia, and maybe even Conker will make an appearance... don’t miss it!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 15/04/2021

Whew. Completed it with 7 hours to spare. Thanks to crew members @rare_fanatic and @ClayHoward helping with the final push!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 10/04/2021

Into the Shores of Gold last night.😎

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 09/04/2021

You are stranded on a desert Island. You have have 4 games. Your have to eat one to survive so you can live to keep playing the other 3. Which to you eat? #SweetCrunchyCartridges

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 04/04/2021

Finally got around to making a new post and fixing the broken iTunes and RSS feed links on the old website if anyone cares lol.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 30/03/2021

2021 Thirst Collectables: 3/3 *Banjo collect Jiggy music plays*

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 27/03/2021

The L.O.G. Awakens! @rare_fanatic and @ClayHoward join me for our first all new episode since 2017! We get caught up on years of @RareLtd and @PlaytonicGames news, and share clips and memories of our past 109 episodes.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 27/03/2021

My throat is really dry right now, It is almost I recorded something for an hour and half... it feels L.O.G.y...

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 26/03/2021

The awesome thing about the L.O.G. Cast being in Spotify is you can listen right from your Xbox while you play Sea of Thieves. 😛

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 23/03/2021

Finally managed to snag a Series X on the GameStop restock today. I can’t wait for it to arrive so I can play Banjo-kazooie In 4K 60fps HDR, which is clearly the man reason why one should buy a $500 next gen game console.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 23/03/2021

Ending the night with a pile of booty.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 23/03/2021

Why is this game not backwards compatible, @Xbox ? It’s a first party xbox studios published game with a beloved @RareLtd IP. (Though not developed by them.) legit almost forgot it was a thing because it’s been locked to the 360 all these years. #FreeThePartyAnimals

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 21/03/2021

And one more thing... this is not the end!! Both @rare_fanatic and @ClayHoward have agreed to come back for a special 2021 reunion episode of the L.O.G Cast, no release date yet, but stay turned and enjoy the 8 new archival episodes in the meantime!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 21/03/2021

Speaking of these new/old episodes, I’d like to cast special spotlight on this one: we had planned to release a GBTG audio drama in October 2017. Written by @ClayHoward and narrated by @rare_fanatic.Please enjoy the surviving table read for the first time!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 21/03/2021

All 8 episodes of the Season 4 archival project are now available! Everything not part of the main L.O.G. Cast show has been collected and released, including two never before released episodes! All episodes contain new commentary by myself!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 20/03/2021

Another day ends on the Sea of Thieves...

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 20/03/2021

L.O.G Cast Throw back episode of the day: for our 100th episode, we played a silly game to find the top 20 Rare games!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 18/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback episode of the day: the one where we had the mind behind @TibbersWorkshop guest and talk about her talent Rare clay creations!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 18/03/2021

L.OG. Cast Throwback episode of the day: even more interviews and coverage from those lucky enough to have visited Rare back in 2016!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 16/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback episode of the day, that time for April’s fools day we had all our better half’s run the show, fearting @mandiedarling1 and @tifhoward and my now ex-wife who I’m just not gonna tag...

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 16/03/2021

Just Crab dabbing with Jo Dark on this Tuesday afternoon.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 15/03/2021

Rare’s biggest IPs all had original handheld games produced that often get completely over looked. Which one do you feel is the most memorable?

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 15/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback episode of the day, the fun little one where we played name that tune with Rare music! One of our better ideas of how to feel a slow news week! Check it out!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 14/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast Throwback episode of the day, our 2016 Christmas episode, with the fantastic Battletoads commercial that @rare_fanatic put together, full of holiday cheer making the perfect episode to listen to in March.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 13/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback episode of the day: the one where all the Rare fansite people were on the same podcast, in part 4 of our Rare Trip series. Feat. Myself, @rare_fanatic , @Rare_Gamer and @IOnEI_Falcon from @RareThief

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 12/03/2021

Alright, so Diddy King Racing. That was a good game. What was the “best” “follow up” to it? The Disney re-skin with less features, the Wii DK abomination, the StarFox one with Tricky in it, or that recent game collection that has old Rare racing games in, but with shinny Stamps.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 12/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast Throwback episode of the day, that time @rare_fanatic and his wife @mandiedarling1 went to @RareLtd as contest winners, and got to walk me through their whole adventure. :)

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 11/03/2021

Hey, our new feed is on Castbox finally! Our old one still is listed there and has subscribers, though none of them can be played anymore, so please update your subs to get the new season 4 episodes! :)

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 11/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback back episode of the day! Me and @rare_fanatic sat down with @RareLtd s 2017 community team @mini_squish and Cameron!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 10/03/2021

Since I know some of y’all don’t believe a podcast is real until it’s available on Apple Podcasts, we are now available on Apple podcasts once again. Check the anchor link in our Twitter bio to get links to every other platform we are on!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 10/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback episode of the day: the one where we had former @RareLtd coder, @NicMakin talk about his time at Rare, and his new game project from @makingames Raging Justice! (Which is out now btw!)

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 10/03/2021

L.O.G. Cast throwback episode of the day: that time me and @rare_fanatic interviewed @RareLtd ‘s very own studio head @Gamerboss back in like 2016!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 09/03/2021

Hey fam. Let’s talk Donkey Kong. What y’all reckon is the best follow up to the original DKC trilogy? Winner of the poll is forever the correct answer because science.

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 02/03/2021

David here. All 101 episodes of the L.O.G. Cast are back online. I removed most of them myself years ago. Enough time has passed that I feel like these should be available again. We had some great interviews that are worth preserving. More to come...?

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 26/03/2020

So this account has not been active in a while, but wanted to give all the old LOGcast fans a heads up I have a new weekly podcast now. Disney+ focused this time! Sub to the show at your fav podcast provider at the link below!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 04/10/2017

Thanks to everyone who took part in the @RareAndFriends @Strictly64 #Gleam giveaway! The results will be in soon!

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 21/09/2017

3 awesome games by @RareLtd , @makingames and @dumplingdesign !! Everyone should check these out at #EGX2017

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 21/09/2017

Having finally played @makingames #RagingJustice I can say it exceeded expectations! Gorgeous art, catchy tunes, FLUID gameplay #EGX2017

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Rare & Friends @rareandfriends.bsky.social · 19/09/2017

Looking forward to playing @makingames new game #RagingJustice at #EGX2017! @NicMakin has made quite an awesome game by all accounts!

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