While many bemoan the current output of Rare Studios, the company has been incredibly successful with Sea of Thieves. It might not be grabbing headlines quite like Destiny, but Sea of Thieves continues to thrive. Since 2020, the player base has more than doubled, and the game is about to …

To the surprise of many, Microsoft announced earlier this year that they would be bringing 4 of their exclusive Xbox games to other platforms – namely PlayStation and Switch. The next Xbox title set to drop onto Sony’s system is Sea of Thieves. Ahead of the game’s 30th of April …

As part of Microsoft’s recent shift toward a more multiplatform approach with its first-party games, the console manufacturer has released Pentiment and Hi-Fi Rush to the PlayStation 5. Next up is Sea of Thieves, with the team at Rare confirming cross-play, cross-progression, 120fps and more. Publishing an FAQ of sorts …

Sea of Thieves will be one of the first titles from Xbox Games Studios to come to PlayStation – following in the footsteps of Pentiment and most-recently Hi-Fi RUSH. Ahead of this, the team at Rare have shared some of their plans for the game’s next 3 Seasons worth of …

Sea of Thieves has proven to be one of Xbox’s most successful console exclusives. Launching all the way back in 2018, the game has gone from strength to strength, selling millions of copies on Steam alone and promising a decade’s worth of support from the team at Rare. Following reports …

Sea of Thieves has quietly become one of Microsoft’s best Xbox console exclusives. Launching all the way back in 2018, the game saw a lukewarm response upon its initial release. 5 years and 10 Seasons later however, the game is better than ever. Following rumours that Microsoft is planning to …

Sea of Thieves has proven to be one of Xbox’s most successful console exclusives. Launching all the way back in 2018, the game has gone from strength to strength, selling millions of copies on Steam alone and promising a decade’s worth of support from the team at Rare. With more …

Sea of Thieves has quietly become one of Microsoft’s best Xbox console exclusives. Launching all the way back in 2018, the game saw a lukewarm response upon its initial release. 5 years and 10 Seasons later however, the team at Rare have added a whole bunch of long-requested features – …

Sea of Thieves has over the past half a decade amassed a dedicated audience of swashbuckling buccaneers, thanks in no small part to the game’s exciting crossovers. Following the massive Pirates of the Caribbean crossover back in 2021, Sea of Thieves is now set to get its next major collaboration …

Live service games are all the rage nowadays, with many studios vying to have a hit which could last for a decade or more. One game which is well on its way to this milestone is Sea of Thieves. First released 5 years ago back in 2018, the team at …

In recent years we have seen a greater effort by both studios and publishers to document the development process for a wide variety of games. Following the recent release of the 23-hour long documentary chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2, Microsoft has now announced that a Sea of Thieves documentary …

Ever since Microsoft announced its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, the console manufacturer has made it clear that subscriptions are the future – at least in the eyes of Xbox. Despite this, many fans flocked to storefronts to buy Rare’s Sea of thieves outright – 5 million in fact. Making …

Sea of Thieves seems to be one of Microsoft and Rare’s greatest modern successes. While the game launched in a relatively bare-bones state, it has seen consistent support from both Rare and Microsoft, adding a great deal of new content and amassing a dedicated audience as a result. This audience …

Microsoft has seemed to fully embrace the PC market with regards to Xbox and its exclusive games. That being said, it would appear as though some aspects to PC gaming, namely mod support and player tweaks, is a bit of a step too far. As part of the latest update, …

One of the key enhancements brought about by the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 are the consoles’ abilities to output games at 120hz. While not all games support the feature, many titles have been slowly adding the functionality. As part of Sea of Thieves’ Season One update, Xbox Series X …

As we've known for some time now, Sea of Thieves is switching to a seasonal content model this year, with the first season and its accompanying ‘battle pass' arriving this week. Now, just ahead of the battle pass rollout, Rare has detailed what it will actually include.  As you'd expect, …

Back in December, Rare announced some pretty big changes coming to Sea of Thieves in 2021. The biggest change is that development on the competitive mode ‘The Arena' is coming to an end, with the developers focusing on the core game moving forward. Alongside this, a new seasonal content system …

A little while ago, Rare teased that 2021 would be the biggest year for Sea of Thieves yet. Now, thanks to a new developer update, we know some of the changes planned – including seasonal content updates and an optional ‘Plunder Pass'.  In an effort to keep players engaged more …

Sea of Thieves has come a long way since its launch in 2018. What originally started out as a lukewarm multiplayer title has turned into a more expansive and fun pirate adventure with a dedicated, sizeable player base. That has become all the more clear this week, with Sea of …

The Valve Index headset has been very successful so far, often selling out on the Steam Store and appearing on the platform's top-seller list. Over the last week, the Valve Index was able to take the top selling spot on Steam once again, even in the middle of the on-going …

Custom and private game servers aren’t nearly as common nowadays, particularly in games published by larger publishers. Support for modding and community tools is starting to grow once again though, with the most recent example being Sea of Thieves. Custom servers have been something that Rare has been mulling over …

Over the last year, Microsoft has been making an effort to bring more of its games to Steam, leaving behind the Windows Store exclusive strategy. While games like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Gears 5 were quick to make it over, others have taken a bit longer. Recently, State …

Over the last year, Microsoft has been making an effort to bring more of its games to Steam, leaving behind the Windows Store exclusive strategy. While games like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Gears 5 were quick to make it over, others have taken a bit longer. Recently, State …

Black Friday is consistently the biggest retail shopping event of the year and while total UK physical game sales were down compared to 2018, retailers still sold through an impressive 1.3 million physical game copies last week. This also means that the UK's top ten games chart is very different …

As is the case in many online multiplayer games, a Halloween special event is a must. Sea of Thieves is no different and is adding its own Halloween twist in a big October update adding new contracts, cosmetics and a new permanent game mode. Halloween has arrived in Sea of …

Next week, Sea of Thieves' big one year anniversary update will set sail, bringing in a bunch of new features and most notably, a story campaign. Rare has been working on improving this game throughout its first year and brought players back in the form of timed event expansions. However, …

Over the last few months, Rare has been working on improving Sea of Thieves with great success. The game had a resurgence to kick off 2019 and hopes to expand on that further soon with the release of the Arena update. If you are part of the Sea of Thieves …

Sea of Thieves kicked off 2019 with a reinvigorated player base, now Rare's attention is turning towards capitalising on that with more expansions. The game's first big update of the year, dubbed ‘Arena', will bring competitive PvP to the game, but those worried about cross-platform advantages between Xbox and PC …

Sea of Thieves may have launched to middling reviews but Rare has been keeping the game alive over the months with free expansions and content updates. Last year, we saw two big updates to the game and now, thanks to the third expansion, the game appears to be having a …

It is no secret that Microsoft's exclusive games all have ridiculous file sizes. Gears 4 takes up over 120GB on console and PC, Halo 5 measures in at over 100GB, Quantum Break is in the same boat. Even Sea of Thieves is larger than it perhaps should be. Fortunately, it …