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Company description
RARE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 16 April 1985; registered for 41 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 62020 · Information technology consultancy activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 13 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- RARE LIMITED
- Company number
- 01905690
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
2 March 2026Next statement due
16 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
BANJO-KAZOOIE
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9,28
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2027
KILLER INSTINCT
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 July 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 March 2021
X THE BALL
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 15 August 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 August 2018
BATTLE TOADS
Owner Rare Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 25 June 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 June 2018
X THE BALL
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 31 May 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 May 2018
RAREWARE
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 6 October 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 October 2011
RAGNAROK'S WORLD
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 18 March 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 March 2000
WARHOGS
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 7 October 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 October 2008
WARHOGS
Owner Rare Limited · classes 28
- Filed / designated
- 7 October 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 October 2008
SPOT THE BALL X THE BALL
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 31 May 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 May 2008
BATTLEMANIACS
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2017
BATTLETOADS
Owner Rare Limited · classes 28
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2017
BATTLETOAD
Owner Rare Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 1989
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2016
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
03 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Interactive Game Development Limited
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02646104
- Notified
- 13 July 2016
Microsoft Corporation
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Washington
- Legal authority
- United States (Washington)
- Legal form
- Corporate
- Place registered
- Washington
- Registration number
- 600413485
- Notified
- 13 July 2016
The company has not yet completed the steps to find its PSCs
- Notified
- 13 July 2016
- Ceased
- 13 July 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
04 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
05 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
06 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
07 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
08 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
09 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
10 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
11 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
12 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.