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Remember Microsoft’s announcement about showing off an “exciting unannounced project” at Comic-Con on July 23rd? How the attendees would get a look at a “new, exciting unannounced project from one of our top franchises”? The funny thing is that each of the games being showcased – Halo 3: ODST, Left4Dead2, Alan Wake, Shadow Complex, etc. – all put in an appearance at E3 2009. The only Microsoft developer missing oh so conspicuously? Rare. Which would make indicators of this “unannounced project” belonging to the Rare stable even stronger. But that’s not all.

Gavin Price, Principal Designer at Rare Ltd./Microsoft Game Studios, is working on an “as yet unannounced project” from January 2009 till now.

Rare Ltd. / Microsoft Game Studios
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Following a reshuffle at Rare, I’ve taken on further responsibility in a new principal designer role on a very exciting new project.

Price also worked on Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. So it’s unlikely it’s a brand new title in that franchise. Could we finally see the re-emergence of Perfect Dark? Or even Killer Instinct? Maybe even Kameo? How about Jet Force Gemini? Meanwhile, we pray Grabbed by the Ghoulies 2 most definitely doesn’t happen.