Twinfinite Writes: 2017 is looking a little sparse for Microsoft's lineup at the moment, but there's still a chance for it to be an impressive year for the Xbox One.
"Publisher Serenity Forge is thrilled to announce that the boxed Special Edition of the roguelike action adventure game "BELOW" for PlayStation 4 is now available across European retail stores." - Serenity Forge.
"Publisher Serenity Forge and distributor Meridiem Games are thrilled to announce a boxed Special Edition of the roguelike action-adventure game "BELOW" will launch on 31st March for PlayStation 4." - Serenity Forge and Meridiem Games.
Tencent is set to buy Sumo Group in a deal worth $1.27bn (£919m), the companies have announced.
Tencent is really buying up everything. I'm surprised everyone is selling to them like this.
No way they are worth that much. They are a support studio. I guess tencent decided to throw them an insane price that Sumo would be crazy to turn down.
Its like the godfather. "Im going to make you an offer you cant refuse"
I've heard some time ago, that they created a special unit that has a mission to search for acquirable devs all around the globe.
I doubt anyone that matters to the actual production of the games is getting a raise. The only thing that has changed is that now they can't buy any Winnie the Poo products for their kids.
Well they’re allowed. America and China are leading the world in toxic capitalism.
As publicly traded companies it's either they sell and potentially get more, or tencent initiates a hostile takeover and buys at least 51% of the shares. These companies might not even be amicable to the buy out but opt to take it because hostile takeovers are terrible.
Yep. A company that built itself by ripping off IP of small, innovative developers and out-marketing them. Tencent is everything wrong not just with gaming but corporate ethics in general, and the assymetric regulatory playing field we for some reason permit from the Chinese government. Egregiously corrupt companies like Tencent should be banned from the US market.
The US market would take Tencent to dinner and have it naked on the bed by midnight if it could. America and China are as bad as each other
They can take Sumo those devs really aren't that great. Sack boys big adventure scored good however but Crackdown 3 wasn't great. They're 50/50 Sony will find a suitable replacement for Sack boy. MS desperately needs a suitable replacement for crackdown, if it's not already too late in terms of fanfare at this point.
Sumo to me isn't that big of a deal there are better devs out there.
This is the same Sumo who made Outrun 2, 2006 Coast to Coast, Sonic Racing Transformed as well as Forza Horizon 2 on the 360. I think they are better than you give them credit for.
You might want to walk this statement back. Why else do you think this game goes for over $200 now?
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yeah, thats what I thought. $1.3 billion is very high, Insomniac sounds like a bargain deal for Sony!
at the two above me,
it's easy to sell for less when you know you're in good hands business and culture wise. I mean sure you could scratch out some extra money elsewhere but are all the people you know going to be taken care of when you get bought out? Sony takes care of them. Basically you can tell who's a scheming money scumbag by what ceo's/execs choose to be bought by. In the end money talks but there's extras to consider sometimes.
Me too! After looking them up, it seems like they were the parent of other game studios: Lab42, Red Kite, Sumo India, The Chinese Room and PixelAnt Games and also have some cryptocurrency technology.
They may also still hold the IP for back when they were Gremlin Interactive.. back in the Amiga days they were really a dev of some repute.
They're not, it's likely them just throwing money around to make sure they have no opposition. Sumo is a valuable developer as they've assisted in alot of great games. They did LBP3, Sackboy, Sonic Transformed, I believe Assisted in both ModNation Racers and LBPK, Team Sonic racing, just to name the few off the top of my head that I own.
I honestly thought ms or Sony would have nabbed them, seeing as they have worked for both on their respective ips, colour me surprised.
It's a lot of money for a group with no ips, what would they have worked on to keep so many studios and staff employed. For now at least they continue working on ips for the likes of Sony and Microsoft.
Sony and ms have more than enough ips to keep em busy, the price would have been an issue though, that I agree with, just surprised is all🤷♂️
Tencent doesn't exactly pride themselves on original IP anyway. They just steal someone else's. They only need developer drones.
They have enough to make them busy but there is no point in buying the studio that high, they could just make the developers some offers and thats it... heck every single developer could just quit the studio and with what is tensen left? no point in buying a studio with no IP you dont own the developers
I already agreed that the price was high, still don't take away that they could have been used, and be useful to either ms or sony
at this point anything ms releases this year will be good news to xbone gamers. Even if they announce games at e3, with their recent track record only prayers can make them actually release the games
Halo 6 in 2017? I'm almost one hundred percent confident the game is slated to release in 2018 and, it will be announced at this E3. The Phantom Dust Remaster and State of Decay 2 could release before E3. I think Crackdown 3 and Sea of Thieves might release in the summer. Forza 7 seems all too obvious for a fall release, assuming it gets announced between now and E3.
I personally think, Turn 10 should take a break from Forza, gamers generally prefer Forza Horizon over the main title. Turn 10 should do something else, maybe an arcade style racer, or a reboot of Ralisport Challenge, Project Gotham Racing or Quantum Redshift. Hopefully MS announces at least 3 new titles (that aren't Halo,Forza or Gears), with one releasing this year.
I'm hoping the Perfect Dark reboot is true, as I would like to see a resurgence in old IPs. MS has brought a healthy amount of new IPs to the table, but none have made big impact, with Ori being an exception. I personally think MS rebooting old franchises, could be successful. Older IPs would appeal to older gamers and essentially be 'new' franchises for younger ones.
Forza 7 is all but confirmed this year. Will be announced at E3 or the Scorpio conference (if there is one) and an AUG/SEPT release as usual.
Crackdown 3, again they're saving for the Scorpio reveal. Will release this year.
Battletoads reboot. 2nd Rare Team. This year's E3 and fall release.
Sea of Thieves. Might release right after E3 because it's F2P.
Phantom Dust HD Remaster (note that this is not the cancelled reboot/remake that got a CGI trailer 2 years ago at E3, but the HD remaster of the 1st game that was out back on the original Xbox). Spencer and Loft is, both confirmed that the game us still under development and is indeed coming really well.
State of Decay 2, with full fledged co-op this time. Fall '17.
Microsoft funded indie titles like Cuphead and Below.
Unless they pull some surprises at E3 this year, that's all I could think of them realistically this year. Batlletoads might have 3-4 month delay but not outright canned like Scalebound, because they own the studio here.
Halo 6 definitely won't be released this year. They tend to announce that a year ahead of time then over show demos of the story and more understandably whatever new Multiplayer mode they are promoting. Crackdown will probably be year next year because of Scorpio.