Much has been said about Sea of Thieves' immediate post-launch content, or lack thereof, but it seems that even the worst nonbelievers are getting onboard for the upcoming anniversary update, which adds the Arena, Tall Tales mode and more.

Sea of Thieves' long-awaited Anniversary Update is scheduled to finally drop on 30 April 2019. The update will introduce a couple of new features such as fishing and cooking, competitive mode named The Arena and a brand new storyline.

As promised, Rare have rolled out the new update to their swashbuckling adventure Sea of Thieves, adding a new Mercenary Voyage, a bunch of combat balancing improvements, performance tweaks and decreases the game's footprint by 20GB.

If you're still on the fence whether to get into Sea of Thieves or not, then we've got some good news - Rare and Microsoft have kicked off the Friends Play Free campaign that lets existing players invite three friends for a free week.

Rare have been posting developer updates for Sea of Thieves on a regular basis and the latest one mentioned that Xbox One players will get an option to opt out of cross-play with PC, which caused divided reactions from the fan base.

Executive Producer Joe Neate confirmed that cross-play will become optional between PC an Xbox One players in the latest Sea of Thieves developer update. The developers are hoping to introduce the change in one of the future updates.

Microsoft's pirate game Sea of Thieves will get install size update which is scheduled for 06 February 2019. The update will greatly reduce install size but will also require players to re-download the entire game again on all platforms.

Sea of Thieves executive producer Joe Neate has shared a few bits of info on the game's direction in 2019 and Rare's swashbuckling adventure will be getting a new and improved PvE quest system, as well as the Arena mode, and quite soon.

Microsoft and Rare have announced a fourth free content update for Sea of thieves dubbed Shrouded Spoils. The update brings fog, new customisation and skeleton fort options among other things. Shrouded Spoils goes live on 28 November 2018.

Rare have announced their plans to bring competitive PvP to Sea of Thieves and The Arena, as the mode's called, will be coming to the game in early 2019, when pirates will be duking it out amongst themselves to impress the new company.