2010 may well go down in history as a number of things: Apart from not being the last year of the decade, it signified a year of substantial innovation across the industry for both Sony, Microsoft and even Nintendo. 2010 was the year that mobile gaming went viral and independent arcade games cracked the 1GB download size to rock it with the big boys. 3D is no longer a buzz word, and with the decline of "music rhythm games" a nice gap has opened for "Zumba dance games". There was a surge of racing fanaticism at the end of year, and if my short stint in retail taught me anything, is that sales in steering wheels and turtle beach head gear were just as high as Kinect.
It struck me though, looking down the entrails of games coming out this year that 2011 just might be the most exciting year for core gamers in a long while, especially those fans that stick with their favourites because I think, 2011 is set to be the year of re-boots. I'm talking about a good 'ol fashioned boot in the rear that sends a game back to their genesis and re-tells or remakes the beginnings of some of our favourite franchises! Check it out:
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
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.