Joel Taveras of DualShockers writes, "Another week, and another entertaining episode of the ShockCast we have to share with you all! This week’s show is comprised of two main topics. The first comes to us from one of our readers, who wants to know what we think about the $150 Natal price point. Whether it’s too much for a peripheral and how does it compare to the “under $100″ price point of the PS Move? For the second topic, we discuss the recent shake up at Microsoft, and what J. Allard and Robbie Bach meant to the company. We round out the show with this week in news, where the highlights are: PSP Go to come with 10 free games in the UK, Insomniac going multiplatform, keytar rumored for Rock Band 3 and Square Enix’s “Project X”. If you want to ask any questions about this show, just ask away in the comments section below and we’ll be more than happy to keep the conversation going!"
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
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.
"Natal Will Cost Too Much"
Depends if the $150 price point is true or not, I s'pose. ;)
nice entrances, especially francois
Good times.
I think gamers will be very resistant to the $150 tag until there are proven titles for Natal. Until then there will be great skepticism.
the price can help it compete with the 1st party support the PS Move will have.