Weeks after its latest layoff blitz, Xbox is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sea of Thieves developer Rare with some fresh merch, new displayable art, a few in-game cosmetics, and an admittedly nice-looking controller.
There's no getting past the fact that Xbox's recent downsizing – which resulted in the cancelation of Rare's long in-development adventure game Everwild, not to mention the shelving of The Initiative's reboot of Rare's classic FPS Perfect Dark – has a dampening effect on the celebratory nature of Rare's big anniversary. Still, Xbox is posting right on through it with a writeup detailing what's to come to mark the occasion.
