Sea of Thieves, rare's multiplayer pirate adventure, finally has a release date.

Microsoft rocked up to The Game Awards 2017 to give us an update on Sea of Thieves, the long-awaited new game from beloved British developer, Rare.

The platform holder confirmed a release date for Sea of Thieves of March 20. That's for both Windows 10 PC and Xbox One, of course.

It also gave us a new trailer, which is nice - take a peek and get hype for Sea of Thieves below. It didn't get a lot of love during the show but I know there are some diehard Rare fans as well as Xbox owners really looking forward to this one.

Sea of Thieves: Release Date Announce Trailer Watch on YouTube

Sea of Thieves has been gathering interest, especially as Rare opens it to more public testing. It seems like the concept is a little hard to communicate, as unusual multiplayer-focused games can be, but those who've played it generally report having a really good time racking around the open seas in a ship with their mates.

It's probably going to spark an unbearable period of games media thinking ocean puns are very funny, though, so let's all batten down the h- oh gosh I'm doing it already. No. Stop. We end here and never speak of this again.