Spy shooter Perfect Dark, a reboot of the franchise developed by Rare, is being co-developed by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics. First announced at the Game Awards 2020, years have gone by without ...

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The cancellation of Perfect Dark and simultaneous closure of The Initiative was a shocking development for many, especially considering lengthy snippets of gameplay (that were mostly fake) had been ...

The Perfect Dark reboot was almost saved from Xbox’s cancellation, but things didn’t work out. The gaming industry is pretty cut throat these days. Studios are being shuttered, mass layoffs are ...

New internal documents from The Initiative's canceled Perfect Dark reboot project have surfaced online. The materials outline gameplay mechanics and artwork that the public never saw before, offering ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook image courtesy of microsoft. Perfect Dark was built on everything Rare had accomplished with ...

Here’s what we know so far. Perfect Dark is an FPS that initially came out back in 2000. The video game landed on the Nintendo 64 by development studio Rare. But now, years later, we’re getting a ...

Booty, who is the head of the now-sprawling Xbox Game Studios portfolio of development houses and games, talked about how any reboot of the Perfect Dark franchise would have to be handled “very ...