The creator of Banjo-Kazooie and Sea Of Thieves has officially left Rare, as fans hope for a switch to Playtonic Games. Following rumours in July, one of Rare’s most celebrated designers, Gregg Mayles ...

Banjo-Kazooie director Greg Mayles has confirmed he's now left Rare after 36 years at the British studio. News broke of his departure in the wake of layoffs at Microsoft back in July, but now Mayles ...

If you enjoy Rare's games, then chances are you ought to be thanking Gregg Mayles, a UK-based game designer who not only directed Banjo-Kazooie and its Xbox-only follow-up Nuts & Bolts, but also ...

Gregg Mayles, the director of Sea of Thieves and designer on Donkey Kong Country, has announced that he's left Rare. News of Mayles' exit was first reported in July 2025 during a rash of layoffs and ...

A career spanning almost four decades came to an end at Rare this week as longtime employee and Sea of Thieves director Gregg Mayles announced his departure from the company. Mayles has been working ...

Playtonic Games’ Yooka-Laylee was one of many Kickstarter successes of its time, in an era in which spiritual successors for classic games were an easy hit. The 2017 original was a clear callback to ...

Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to ...

Fans have been wanting Xbox Game Studios to bring Rare's platformer series Banjo-Kazooie back for years. That doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon, but fans do have another game to look forward ...

It’s been a while since Tim Schafer’s done press briefings, he admits. The head of Double Fine, a studio best known for the Psychonauts series, is trying to explain Keeper, a puzzle adventure game ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

A legendary Leicestershire company's impact on video games is to be honoured. Rare Ltd were the developers behind some of the biggest games on the Nintendo 64, including Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Fans of the Banjo-Kazooie series have had very little to celebrate over the last two decades.