From the PlanetXbox360.com feature article:
"So, the bombshell kind of dropped for the team over at the cloud gaming service OnLive right before the weekend. At first, it sounded like the service was coming to a screeching halt, as the majority of its workforce was being laid off, save for a few engineers. But then, as the day progressed, it sounded like things weren’t shutting down, merely moving in a new direction."
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Was sad to hear about OnLive but hopefully someone will jump in and reshuffle/save the company...
Please, loved this service!
I honestly read this as "five reasons Minecraft should have bought onlive".
It sucks for the people who have bought games on Onlive though :( it has some nice perks to it but it wasn't something I was interested in. The internet necessity and not really having it stored on the hard drive is a big hit to the gut when it isn't really something that is taking everyone by storm and isn't, as of yet, flawless technology with modern internet.
Did you guys read reason #5.Wow the person who wrote this article is a complete fanBoy.
becuse cloud gaming is terrible, oh wait, thats a reason the shouldn't have, and they didn't, good.
lets just hope ps4 and nextbox go with badass HARDWARE!
screw cloud gaming, it lags, it needs CONSTANT fast internet, multiplayer would be a nightmare, the graphics don't even equal a 5 year old gaming rig, sure its a bit better than ps3/360, but its got nothing on a dedicated gaming rig or what next gen consoles should try to be~!