Viva Panata
Chris and Tim Stamper, who were two of Rare's three co-founders in 1982, have left the company to do other things, according to 1Up.
UK-based Rare is best known for Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007, and Banjo-Kazooie. However, in its early days as Ultimate Play The Game, it produced such Spectrum classics as as Jetpac, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf and Knight Lore.
As 1Up says: "The Stampers' exodus comes just four years after Microsoft acquired Rare from Nintendo for $375M. Since that acquisition, Rare has published five games for Microsoft Game Studios. In addition to [Viva] Pinata, Rare released Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero at the Xbox 360's launch and shipped Conker: Live & Reloaded and Grabbed By the Ghoulies on the original Xbox."
Rare was famously secretive so it's hard to tell whether the Stamper brothers' departure will make any real difference, and it's impossible to know what they will do next. Any readers in the Twyford area are welcome to leak the inside story here.
