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Rare today revealed how successful was its massive collaboration with Disney to bring Pirates of the Caribbean content over to Sea of Thieves. The game saw its highest active player count ever.

Sea of Thieves A Pirate's Life update has landed, bringing in Captain Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, and other familiar faces from the Pirates of the Caribbean over to the pirate adventure game.

In a surprising reveal, Rare's pirate adventure game is having a crossover with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones are coming in as a part of brand-new campaigns.

Microsoft has announced its Xbox Academy aimed at UK students. It aims to inspire them to work towards a job in games development and what path they need to take to get into the industry.

Rare has pushed out Sea of Thieves Season Two for all players, bringing in features such as Trade Routes, resources for purchase with Gold, another battle pass with 100 new items to unlock, and more.

Rare has announced Sea of Thieves is now 20 million players strong across all platforms just as the game becomes three years old. There's a weekend of festivities planned to celebrate the occasion.

While Season One is still underway, Rare today pushed an update to Sea of Thieves that preps the game for a fishing-focused event, and delivered Japanese localization, Steam friends support, and more.

Sea of Thieves now has a battle pass as well as a brand new Merchant Alliance voyage type, a 120FPS performance mode for the Xbox Series X, and more as part of the game's Season One major update.

The battle pass mechanic Rare is introducing to Sea of Thieves soon was explained in full today. Dubbed Seasons, it has players earning Renown to unlock 100 pieces of cosmetic content for free.

Rare's final update to Sea of Thieves in 2020 brings back the Festival of Giving. Players will find events that encourage cooperative play, a rewarding Gilded Voyage, a new cosmetic slot, and more.

Rare's pirate adventure game is gaining a battle pass in 2021 with free and premium tiers of rewards. The company is also moving away from monthly content updates to seasonal updates.

Sea of Thieves isn't hosting a new event in November but it did deliver an update aimed at fixing a bunch of issues and refreshing the ongoing Halloween-themed events from last month.

Rare today revealed that thanks to the brand new enhancements coming to Sea of Thieves on next-generation consoles, the Xbox Series X and S will offer 60FPS gameplay and much faster loading times.

Rare's latest update to Sea of Thieves brings back the Shadows of Fate skeletons for pirates to fight back against. The new voyages will rotate the locations of these brawls weekly.

Vaults full of treasure and mystery have arrived to Sea of Thieves alongside a brand new pet type, dogs. The content-filled monthly update is now available across PC and Xbox One family of consoles.

Today, Rare announced that Sea of Thieves was getting a Vaults of the Ancients update on September 9. The update adds new areas with lots of gold and dogs as pets. It'll be a free download next week.

Although an official announcement hasn't arrived yet from Rare, a trailer Microsoft showed off during the gamescom Opening Night Live presentation revealed a pirate holding a canine friend.

The August update to Sea of Thieves lands without a major feature drop, but it does come with several brand new events that deliver cosmetic rewards, plus more quality of life updates and bug fixes.

Though it's been MIA for a while, the Battletoads reboot has finally gotten a new trailer, and an actual release date. It's coming in August via the Microsoft Store, Steam, Xbox One, and Game Pass.

The new Ashen Winds update to Sea of Thieves comes with four new super-powered Ashen Lords to overcome, a piece of loot that can act as a flamethrower, new events, cosmetics, and more.

Rare showed up to the Xbox Games Showcase event today with a brand new trailer for its upcoming title Everwild. This trailer showed a bit more of the magical world players will be entering.

Rare today announced that its massively popular pirate game Sea of Thieves has sold over a million copies on Steam. The game has also seen over 15 million players since its launch in 2018.

Rare has announced that custom servers are being developed for Sea of Thieves. The feature is aimed at creators and communities to make hosting events and gathering players an easier task.

The latest Sea of Thieves content update brings in phantom vessels with ghostly armaments, new shanties, and more. The update is now available to Windows 10, Xbox One, and Steam players.

Sea of Thieves' concurrent player number on Steam has been rising explosively, going from 20,000 players at launch to 50,000 concurrent less than a week after its release on the platform.

Beyond the arrival of Sea of Thieves on Steam, this week also saw some game-related leaks, a new Insider build, new updates to Edge, and more. Be sure to catch up via our handy overview.

Microsoft and Rare have pushed Sea of Thieves to Steam right on schedule, adding a third platform to the game that has so far only been available on Xbox One and PC via the Microsoft Store.

Rare has pushed out the Sea of Thieves Lost Treasures content update, delivering to pirates in the adventure game a checkpoint system for Tall Tales, daily, weekly, and special events, plus more.

Microsoft and Rare has announced that the popular pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves is coming to Steam on June 3. The release will feature full cross-play support with Xbox One and Windows 10.

Ships of Fortune is the latest content update to hit Rare's pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves. It carries a new emissary system for trading companies that promises bigger and riskier rewards.

Microsoft and Rare detailed the next Sea of Thieves content update during the Inside Xbox stream today. The Ships of Fortune update brings an emissary system for trading companies, and more.

The hit Microsoft first-party title Sea of Thieves will soon be available through Steam. The Rare-developed pirate adventure game has quietly received a store page that looks all ready to go.

Rare has pushed out another monthly content update for Sea of Thieves, and this time it brings along a new Tall Tale to journey through, chain shots for cannons, a knockback causing item, and more.

Rare has pushed out another monthly content update for its pirate game Sea of Thieves. The Crews of Rage update brings along a brand new cursed chest, the ability to change appearance, and more.

Rare has announced that the much-requested appearance change option is finally coming to Sea of Thieves in the form of a potion. It will cost 150 Ancient Coins to purchase from the store.

Rare has announced that its Microsoft platform exclusive adventure game Sea of Thieves has managed to gather over 10 million players since its launch almost two years ago on Xbox One and Windows 10.

The final monthly update of 2019 has arrived to Sea of Thieves, with Rare delivering a new voyage type involving gifts, a brand new tutorial experience in a new island, a sword rebalance, and more.

Rare today delivered its latest monthly update to Sea of Thieves, bringing along firebombs that can set aflame ships and players, a brand new Tall Tale mission to embark on, and more.

X019 opened its gates this past week, with announcements about new IPs updates on existing titles and even Project xCloud news. Patch Tuesday also rolled around, so be sure to catch up below.