Microsoft’s E3 lacked whom many were expecting to show up and that’s Rareware. However, there’s a reason they were not at the show. Rare is hard at work on making games that use Microsoft’s E3-announced Natal.

“Rare is intimately involved with Project Natal in a number of different dimensions,” Xbox boss Shane Kim told Kotaku at E3 this week.

“They’re doing an awful lot of work, even outside the traditional game space, I would say.

“Unfortunately I can’t go into a lot of detail about that. Rare is alive and well and really having a broader impact on the entire Xbox world than just doing the games they traditionally have in the past.”

So does this mean no Killer Instinct 3? (sad face)