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Sea Of Thieves

Developed by Rare and published in 2018 by Xbox Game Studios, Sea of Thieves is a swashbuckling multiplayer adventure that puts players in the role of a pirate in the golden age of piracy.
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Sea of Thieves gets new Voyage, combat balancing and bunch more

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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.

Sea of Thieves lets players invite three friends for a free week

Top-down view of a pirate swimming towards a ship in Sea of Thieves
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.

Fans are not reacting well to Sea of Thieves crossplay opt-out

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.

Sea of Thieves cross-play is becoming optional on PC and Xbox One

Three pirates standing around in Rare's game Sea of Thieves
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.

Latest Sea of Thieves update will require a re-download

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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 getting enhanced PvE systems and Arena soon

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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.

Sea of Thieves free Shrouded Spoils content update revealed

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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.

Sea of Thieves getting competitive PvP mode dubbed The Arena

Fog, an upcoming feature in Sea of Thieves
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.

Sea of Thieves adds Halloween flavoured Festival of the Damned

Rare have rolled out the 1.3.2 update for their swashbuckling adventure Sea of Thieves and the new Bilge Rat Adventure dubbed the Festival of the Damned is taking over from the game's Forsaken Shores campaign, cosmetics included of course.

Rare shed more light on Sea of Thieves: Shrouded Spoils

Top-down view of a pirate swimming towards a ship in Sea of Thieves
Rare have decided to shed a bit more light on the next expansion to their swashbuckling adventure Sea of Thieves called Shrouded Spoils, which includes expanded ship customisation options, unique commendation for pirate legends and the fog.