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    THE LATEST NEWS FROM SEPTEMBER 2002

    Aug 08, 2019 3 minutes

    After all of last month’s hullabaloo over a Nintendo press conference, you might have thought that the industry would move on and discuss something else for the month.

    But if you believed that, you’d be in the running for the presidency of Planet Wrong, as this month saw the speculation over Rare’s fate hit feverpitch. Cube even ran a feature titled “Rare – Where?” consisting mostly of guess work and photos of people messing about near Twycross. The working assumption had been that the developer

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