Rare: Our future games will be surprising

Microsoft-owned Rare Studios has revealed that its future products and titles will "surprise a lot of people".

Speaking to Games Industry, studio manager Mark Betteridge said that part of the developer's mission is to "change the conventional thinking [about] games and entertainment".

"I don't see us fighting the same battles as everybody else," he explained. "I think some of the products we'll do going forward will surprise a lot of people, both in terms of what they are and the different styles."

Betteridge also pointed out that Rare's recently-released Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts marks "a twist on an established genre".

"That theme of doing something new with gameplay runs through everything we're doing going forward - whether that's how you play the game, [or] how you interface with the game," he said.