Tue, Jun 08, 2010 | 06:58 BST

Rare website starts counting down – get guessing

rare countdown

Rare’s website now has a countdown on its homepage. It has seven days left. Can you guess why? Betcha you can’t.

The page also shows a message, “one in a million”, with an Xbox avatar standing in front of the timer.

The countdown comes as the first-party MGS studio announced a rebranding last week to celebrate its 25th anniversary to more of a casual/lifestyle brand.

Can you say “Natal“? Can you say “fitness game“? Good.

Expect the reveal to come at either Microsoft’s E3 presser or its Natal experience event next week. Get timings on them here.

Thanks, IGN.

25 comments

Gekidami
08/06/10, 6:59 am

Something lame i’m sure, its Rare afterall.

Amored
08/06/10, 7:18 am

Something good I’m sure. It’s Rare after all.

52pickup
08/06/10, 7:26 am

Bet it will be crap.

Amored
08/06/10, 7:33 am

Emo.

ybfelix
08/06/10, 7:46 am

“one in a million”
1 vs 1000000

DJ Deathstar
08/06/10, 7:50 am

I’m expecting more than a single Rare game to be announced, or at least i hope anyways! Especially if their going to be doing a fitness game i also hope for something like a new Banjo, Killer Instinct or Perfect Dark!

I wonder if the fitness game will be maybe based around Rare characters, like the mini games that bound to be included?

Amored
08/06/10, 7:54 am

Hmmm… Maybe something similar to PS Home? Not likely, but it’s a thought.

mington
08/06/10, 8:16 am

Something slightly pink in the middle I’m sure. It’s Rare after all.

onlineatron
08/06/10, 8:19 am

#10

Aimless
08/06/10, 8:34 am

Why would they tease a fitness game? The demographics for those two concepts don’t really mix.

Not to say Rare aren’t making a fitness game, but I doubt that’s what the countdown is for. If anything I’d be more inclined to go along with Amored’s suggestion, at least to a certain extent: some sort of social network type environment for Avatars, which a fitness game might report user data to, say. Perhaps it could even be a way to keep track of and group your Friends, given the lifting of the 100 limit…

That is, of course, nothing but an educated guess. On the upside it’s all the more impressive if I’m right.

#11

Gama_888
08/06/10, 8:35 am

the counter looks very……
natal’y

#12

Bulk Slash
08/06/10, 9:20 am

Is it something only 1 in a million Xbox users will actually care about?

#13

evilashchris
08/06/10, 9:28 am

Conker’s Kama Sutra workout confirmed!

#14

Blerk
08/06/10, 9:29 am

I kind of like their rebranding. Their old stuff was looking decidedly tired.

A fitness game would make a lot of sense. Wasn’t there a story last year about an enhancement to make your avatar’s weight and height match your own?

#15

SplatteredHouse
08/06/10, 9:42 am

“banjo@rare.co.uk” – ah, come on now; that’s just in poor taste.

It’s so wrong, but I just hope that in 7 days time, there’s an update, and a movie of an explosion, and a trailer starts like a live action news report, played entirely straight, warning people to evacuate from the vicinity of a perilous unexploded device. Viewers then learn that experts have been summoned, and…Blast Corps returns, signified by a team in BC branded attire bustling through the crowd of media, hair all out of place and out of breath. As the anchor prepares to seg out, thy get a few words out of hope to the viewer, the feed cuts; and in its place, 2011, in yellow shimmering text, on black.

#16

Len
08/06/10, 10:23 am

If only! Nice thought though…

#17

Erthazus
08/06/10, 10:32 am

Rare Yoga Game

#18

Psychotext
08/06/10, 10:32 am

@8: Brilliant.

#19

Raining_Upwards
08/06/10, 10:37 am

It will be a Rare fitness title.