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Thursday22nd Aug 2024
News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Has Reportedly Sold Over One Million Copies On PS5
In Phil's words: "we run a business"
There's been a lot of conversation within the Xbox community following the announcement that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be released on PlayStation 5 next year. Off the back of this, Phil Spencer yesterday said Xbox's franchises were actually "getting stronger". With this in mind, a new story today...
Thursday25th Jul 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Season 13 Has Arrived As Rare Continues To Build On PS5 Success
They're not slowing down!
Thought that Sea Of Thieves going multiplatform would slow down Rare, eh? Not a chance! The team has stuck to its regular update cadence with the arrival of Sea of Thieves Season 13, which is now live on Xbox, PS5 and PC. In this first post-launch season for PS5 players (Season 12 was packed into the PlayStation release),...
Wednesday10th Jul 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Justifies Multiplatform Release By Charting Again On PS5 In June
Fresh plunder
Another month brings even more Sea Of Thieves success for Microsoft! Rare's pirate adventure, which first launched on Xbox all the way back in 2018, has sold very well on PS5 again in June 2024. In both the US and Europe, Sea of Thieves was in the top five most downloaded PS5 games for the month of June. This follows May's standings,...
Friday21st Jun 2024
News Xbox Exec Talks Multiplatform Strategy, Team 'Really Pleased' With Sea Of Thieves On PS5
"We have been really pleased"
In a new interview with Variety, Xbox exec Matt Booty has been discussing lots of Microsoft's recent gaming business, including the team's big summer showcase earlier this month. Naturally, the conversation also moved towards
Thursday13th Jun 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Was The Best-Selling PS5 Game In Both The US & Europe Last Month
Sea of sales
Rare's Sea Of Thieves was probably the most high-profile Xbox game to make the switch to PlayStation 5 earlier in the year, and Microsoft's multiplatform move seems to have paid off for the Xbox owner already. In a new post over at the PlayStation Blog, Sony has detailed its software sales charts for May 2024, and Rare's pirate...
Wednesday29th May 2024
News Xbox's Recent Multiplatform Releases Selling Well On PS5, Fallout Sales Also Get A Boost
NPD has all the deets
Whatever we may think of Microsoft's new direction in bringing certain first-party games to other platforms, the results are beginning to speak for themselves. Circana's Mat Piscatella (formerly NPD) has today posted a bunch of figures and statistics about US game sales for the month of April - and Xbox's new PlayStation...
Friday10th May 2024
News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Plunders PS5 Charts, Becoming Europe's Best-Selling Game In April
Shiver me timbers
Rare made its PlayStation debut last month with the arrival of Sea Of Thieves on PS5, and it sounds like its pirate adventure is doing quite well on the platform so far. As revealed by Sony in the company's latest PlayStation Blog sales post, Sea of Thieves was the best-selling game in Europe during the month of Apr
Tuesday30th Apr 2024
News Here's What The First PS5 Reviews Are Saying About Sea Of Thieves
Rare's first-ever PlayStation game is out now
Well, the final entry in Xbox's new four-game-foray into PlayStation gaming is officially out now, with Sea Of Thieves releasing on PS5 today. It's been a long while since the game first came out on Xbox though, so what are the reviews saying about Rare's pirate adventure in 2024? We've already heard...
Monday29th Apr 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Adds Multiple New Weapons In Season 12 Update For Xbox, PS5 & PC
To coincide with the PlayStation launch
The 12th season of Sea Of Thieves is upon us! To coincide with the launch of the game on PS5 tomorrow (April 30th), Season 12 is bringing a bunch of new features to Xbox, PS5 and PC, including multiple new weapons and even the addition of ziplines and Harpoon lines! The "Double Barrel Pistol" and "Throwing...
Monday22nd Apr 2024
News Sea Of Thieves On PS5 Has Slight Edge Over Xbox Series X, Notes Digital Foundry
In two key areas
Over the weekend, the folks at Digital Foundry posted some interesting findings about Sea Of Thieves on PlayStation 5, following its recent beta test on the Sony console. We'll put the video version of their analysis up above, but the gist of it is that PS5 has a few advantages despite being very similar to the Series X version...
Wednesday17th Apr 2024
News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Reaches 40 Million Players Prior To PS5 Launch
"A truly extraordinary number"
Xbox and Rare's Sea Of Thieves is officially about to set sail on PS5 in just a couple of weeks' time, but before then, it's been announced today that the game has now surpassed 40 million players across Xbox consoles and PC. In a message on the Sea of Thieves website, Executive Producer Joe Neate thanked the game's...
Saturday6th Apr 2024
News Xbox Reportedly Testing The Waters With Sea Of Thieves PS5 Release
Sources familiar with Microsoft claim it's a "key test"
Sea Of Thieves is sailing onto the PlayStation 5 later this month, and while there have already been some claims Microsoft is using it as a test, The Verge's senior editor Tom Warren has now chimed in. According to "sources familiar with Microsoft's plans", Rare's open-world multiplayer pirate...
Friday5th Apr 2024
News Sea Of Thieves PS5 FAQ Reveals How It Compares To The Xbox Version
A few differences of note
We've officially entered the month of Sea of Thieves' PS5 release (which takes place on April 30th), and ahead of that launch, Rare has revealed some more of the similarities and differences between that version and the Xbox version. It's mostly all the same at first glance, with PS5 owners being forced to use a Microsoft...
Thursday21st Mar 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Details Upcoming Seasons - New Weapons, Tools, Owls & More
Season 12, 13 and 14 outlined
Rare this week held its '2024 Preview Event' for Sea Of Thieves - celebrating the game's sixth anniversary and revealing what's coming in Season 12, 13 and 14. If you weren't able to catch it and need a quick recap, you've come to the right place. Keep in mind everything showcased during this latest broadcast is still...
Friday15th Mar 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Gets Two New Xbox Editions Ahead Of PS5 Release
Plus an updated Game Pass version
The PS5 release of Sea of Thieves is right around the corner, and Rare has been busy cooking up a variety of special editions for players to pre-order. With that in mind, we're also getting more options on Xbox and PC! As of today, you can buy the Deluxe and Premium Editions of Sea of Thieves, both of which include...
Sunday10th Mar 2024
News Xbox's Sea Of Thieves Becomes 'Best-Selling' Pre-Order On PlayStation 5
Beating the likes of Star Wars and Dragon's Dogma 2
For the first time ever, Sea Of Thieves will be setting sail on PlayStation this April, and even though we've still got almost two months to go until its release date, the game is currently a "best selling" pre-order on PS5 as things stand. If you look at the "PS5 Pre-orders" chart and then sort...
Thursday7th Mar 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Announces 2024 Preview Event, Anti-Cheat Out Next Week
The game's sixth anniversary is on the horizon
As part of Sea Of Thieves' sixth anniversary celebrations, Rare is busy preparing a few things. Firstly, it's announced a '2024 Preview Event' will be taking place on March 20th. This will include a "sneak peek" of the content coming to Seasons 12, 13, and 14. More details will be shared as soon as...
Saturday2nd Mar 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Co-Developer Lays Off 'Handful' Of Employees
"This situation is heartbreaking"
It's been another difficult week for the video game industry in 2024 and now the UK indie developer Radical Forge has announced it's laying off a "handful of people". It's reportedly six employees to be exact. The same team, which worked alongside Flix Interactive and Rare on the free update Sea Of Thieves: A...
Wednesday28th Feb 2024
PSA You'll Need A Microsoft Account To Play Sea Of Thieves On PS5, Unsurprisingly
PlayStation crew members can sign up for free
Xbox wants to expand its ecosystem, and as part of this, it recently announced four first-party titles for other console platforms. One of these is Rare's online multiplayer pirate game Sea Of Thieves, which sails onto the PlayStation 5 on April 30th, 2024. For anyone who wants to play on this...
Wednesday21st Feb 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Sets Sail On PS5 This April With Xbox & PC Crossplay
"You can stop asking now."
Today, we've had announcements of Grounded and Pentiment going to Nintendo Switch and PS5, as well as Hi-Fi RUSH heading to PlayStation 5, and now we also know that Sea Of Thieves will be hitting Sony's console on April 30th, 2024.
Monday19th Feb 2024
News Sea Of Thieves' New Xbox Update Is Almost 100GB, But There's A Good Reason For It
It also won't be happening again
Good news, Sea Of Thieves fans - there's a brand-new update available for the game across and Xbox and PC today. Bad news, Sea of Thieves fans - it's almost 100GB in size across all Xbox consoles and the PC Game Pass version! The reason for this huge update is because Sea of Thieves is now operating on the latest...
Wednesday14th Feb 2024
News Rare Pokes Fun At Xbox Situation With Multiplatform Tease For Sea Of Thieves
"Wait, where were we going with this?"
If you can believe it, it's been more than a month since we first heard rumours of Sea of Thieves going multiplatform, and a new social media tease from developer Rare has perhaps delivered our most concrete evidence of the move yet. Taking to Twitter, the Sea Of Thieves account posted a short riddle...
Tuesday13th Feb 2024
News First Two Xbox Exclusives Coming To 'Rival Consoles' Reportedly Revealed
Hi-Fi RUSH and Pentiment could begin a new era for Xbox
Following the latest update from Xbox about its upcoming podcast, The Verge's senior editor Tom Warren has now chimed in (again), with details about what can supposedly be expected. Warren has been informed by a "source" that the first two Xbox titles releasing on "rival consoles"...
Tuesday23rd Jan 2024
News Sea Of Thieves 'Season 11' Update Now Live, Here Are The Patch Notes
"Access all the adventure you crave more quickly than ever"
Today's the day for Sea of Thieves "Season 11" on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC, with the update arriving a few hours ago across all of those platforms - containing a download size between 5.62GB and 8.09GB. The highlight feature of Season 11 is something called "Sea of...
Wednesday17th Jan 2024
News Sea Of Thieves Season 11 Adds New Underwater 'Diving' Mechanic For Fast Travel
"Explore a redesigned Quest system"
The team at Rare has delivered its deep dive into Sea Of Thieves Season 11, featuring a major change to how quests can be tackled going forward. Yep, the game's new 'Diving' mechanic allows players to effectively fast travel to quests rather than need to sail the high seas towards an objective. This is an...
Monday15th Jan 2024
News Sea Of Thieves' New Mode Is Proving Popular For Avoiding 'Toxic' Players
"It literally brought me back"
Back in early December, Sea Of Thieves added a long-awaited feature in the form of the "Safer Seas" mode, allowing you to play offline without any other real people in the game (unless you invite them), and it's gone down a treat so far. What's interesting is that it also appears to have sparked a debate about...
Tuesday5th Dec 2023
News Sea Of Thieves Adds Private Servers In This Week's 'Safer Seas' Update
You no longer need to play with strangers!
The time has finally arrived for the Sea Of Thieves "Safer Seas" update on Xbox and PC! For the first time ever, this brings the ability to play the game on entirely private servers - either solo, or with up to three other players. Rare has released an explainer video (which you can watch up above) which...
Friday6th Oct 2023
News Sea Of Thieves Has A New Developer Working On Season Ten Cosmetics
"We got the amazing opportunity to work with Rare"
As Rare gets closer to its Season Ten update for its pirate-themed sandbox Sea Of Thieves, a new development announcement has been made. The UK Bristol-based team Auroch Digital (Warhammer: 40,000 Boltgun) has signed on to create some "hearty cosmetics" for Sea of Thieves, which will be premiering...
Friday29th Sep 2023
News Sea Of Thieves' Final Monkey Island Chapter 'The Lair Of LeChuck' Is Now Live
"Set sail once again"
If you're a fan of Rare's pirate sandbox Sea Of Thieves, here's your reminder that the third and final part of 'The Legend of Monkey Island' Tall Tales series is now live. In 'The Lair of LeChuck' you will accompany Guybrush Threepwood to Monkey Island in pursuit of Captain LeChuck. Here's a bit about what you can expect...
Sunday24th Sep 2023
News Sea Of Thieves Is 'Not Just PvE Or PvP', According To Creative Director
It's apparently a "shared world adventure game"
Earlier this week, Rare outlined its plans for Sea Of Thieves Season Ten - revealing the game would finally be adding private PvE servers. Although this decision is going to potentially increase the game's audience, it's definitely resulted in a mixed reaction from the community with some players...
