Microsoft just confirmed the news Kotaku exclusively broke two hours ago: Peter Moore resigned from Microsoft.
Moore will be replaced by Don Mattrick, a former president of EA and current external adviser for Microsoft, who will now lead the Interactive Entertainment Business for Microsoft. While the official release says that Moore "has decided to move his family back to the Bay Area for personal reasons and has secured another opportunity in the video games industry", Kotaku heard that calls have already started going out within the industry confirming that the other "opportunity" is EA where he will head up EA Sports.
BLG writes, "Some of the most popular games have had a rough start, with some of them being downright unplayable.
Despite that, developers have managed to turn it around for them and make their game worth playing. Here are some games that had a rough start but were pretty great."
Sea of Thieves... I'm not disagreeing that the game has improved in terms of content. But I feel that the most significant change between now and its release is actually the public perception. Nowadays, most people are aware that the game is a multiplayer PvP-focused experience first and foremost, and not "Black Flag made by Rare". Consequently, people dismissing the whole experience because the single-player aspect is lacking or the story is plain are much less common.
Several years ago, i submitted an idea to Rare that would change up the mechanics of battling opponents in the game. whereby if you died in battle, you turned into a skeleton warrior and had to fight your way back to the land of the living. It was an interesting twist on respawning and would allow the player to experience both sides of a battle.
I keep hoping to see something like that get added to the game.
It's sad that this quick retort is more often than not true... The industry's acceptance of release and patch has gone too far.
Days gone! By the end of the game I couldn't drop it down! I went around so many hours killing zombies! It was addictive by the end.
Richard writes: "Now was the right time to release the Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S update. It just could have been more."
They aren't going to give more. We are talking about a company that has rereleased an 13 year old game at least 5 times.
Things are heating up in May a bit with Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the Paper Mario TTYD remake, and a ton of promising indies. We pick the most interesting May games, from AAA to indie, so you can make sense of everything coming out.
Doesn't seem to be that bad of a month. Got a bit of something for everyone.
Please do not support braid anniversary edition. Don't support Phil phish, he's a very despicable person, a a cry baby.
One example
https://youtu.be/yKUGwlFJAH...
Wrong developer. Phil Phish was the developer behind Fez.
Jonathan Blow was behind Braid. If you're gonna cancel culture, don't take down the wrong indie...
Man, I don’t know why, but it also irks me when people try to tell others what to do. Fez was an awesome game, I couldn’t care less if the dev was a douche.
This is just extra cringe since the person actually doesn’t know what they’re talking about 🤦♂️
I wasn't cancel culturing shit. Phil phish is a complete douche. Did you bother to watch the video? Probably not.
I was wrong but call me cancel culture is just plain dumb also
Also crimson.
As you I'm human and we make mistakes. That was a mistake I mixed the games up. Shit happens. So go cringe yourself
Honest mistake, if you can watch that video and support the guy. Then I guess your in the same camp
You were wrong and that's that. Don't be so angry.
And yeah, that is a case example of cancel culture. It was a dozen years ago, he's apologized since, had Japanese developers rationalize with his remark, barely has done anything in the industry since Fez, and yet here you are, not even remembering the one game he made...
Ok first off....did EA and MS just pull off a trade? LOL...I know that is not the case but you do have to laugh a little at it.
Personally I am a little sad to see Moore go. I really enjoyed him as one of the top execs at MS. He is a pretty dynamic speaker and certainly showed well at conferences when he would come out and speak. Probably my favorite next to Reggie from Nintendo. That guy just cracks me up...he is so 100% different than all the other nintendo execs. Anyway, back to Moore. I think he was a good face for MS on the software side and he will be good for EA.
Next question is what is Don Mattrick like? I have never heard him speak or really know of him. About the only thing I do know is EA is a jugernaut...he probably helped shape it so hopefully he can bring some of that to MS.
He wants to be with his family, I can understand that (if this really is the reason!). Let’s give the new guy a chance, see what he can bring to the table. Hopefully, he’ll fast track some price cuts!
Personally, I think he’s taking the fall for the warranty thing. It’s not his fault, but someone has to go, you don’t lose a billion dollars and have everyone keep their job.
NO NO NO NO NO!!!
THIS CANNOT BE TRUE!
EA will FCUK everyone over this is the end!
One of the cooler microsoft employees. Sad to see him go. He is now really going to regret that gta4 tattoo.
Peter Moore was my favorite spokesperson from MS. Him, Reggie, and Phil Harrison are the only three big execs from the big three that know how to talk and that actually seemed to care about what they're talking about.