I was looking at Rare's jobs site the other day, and the company appears to be a lot bigger (with both R&D and Studios) than I thought.

The spark seems to have gone from Rare. Prehaps it might be a good thing for Microsoft to sell them to another company or if someone somehow made the business independant.

Just think how delayed a NEW game would be and not this re-hash.

Grab the Ghoulies 2 will come out before Conker. At this rate Conker is going to be a swan song farewell game like it was on N64. Too little, too late. I think all the talent at Rare is gone from the GoldenEye 64 days. They haven't released a decent game in a long time. Hopefully, Zoonami and Free Radical Design make some awesome games and make M$ look reallyl stupid.

Maybe Microsoft is pumping money and resources into Rare to try and make their purchase of Rare not look like the biggest mistake EVER.

I think they're just working to have as many Rare titles for XBOX2 launch as possible... maybe.