Preview of news article...
"At the end of last year, I started hearing about a game called Raskulls on Xbox Live. Some critics praised the game as original and fun, while others said it was simply derivative of other titles. While critics may not agree on how good the game is, they all felt it was fun. Sadly there have been little to no updates on the title since release. Suddenly, a few days ago the first pack of downloadable content for Raskulls was released. "
Pure Xbox writes: "Microsoft has appointed Alan Hartman as the new Head of Xbox Game Studios. If you're not familiar with Hartman, he's been part of Forza Motorsport team at Turn 10 Studios since 2005.
Over the past couple of years he's led as Corporate Vice President of Forza and Fable, and before this was the Forza Studio Head at Turn 10."
Seems like a solid choice considering Forza and FH have been the only high quality studio, consistently for Microsoft.
*Forza and FH are the most consistent high quality and this guy ran Turn 10. Playground did FH but still high quality. Let's see if he can get some quality production out of the rest
He´s been doing an excellent job ahead of both Forza franchises integrating those studios to work together by sharing knowledge, technology and manpower.
The new ForzaTech is amazing and I can´t wait to see what it can do for the new Fable.
Phil Spencer has been promoting a huge shake up at Xbox with new leadership hopefully full of fresh ideas!
I hope Alan Hartman as head of XGS to keep the focus on single player games and RPGs. Fable looks absolutely stunning, so we can expect Forza Horizon´s level of excellence for Playground´s first RPG.
I can´t wait!
What a nice reward for the latest Forza, which is probably the most mediocre of the lot so far.
@redgrave not an excuse an explanation for why this game has less features. Not my problem you don't understand how game development works or development in general. When you move to a knew platform some things need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
I am currently migrating one of our services we provide to our customers to the cloud version and having to rebuild a lot of the add-ons we had built for them over the years.
But go ahead and keep criticizing devs when no one here has any clue what it actually takes.
Still think Rod Fergusson would have been a good shout. He's got a track record of fixing stuff and I assume he's still at Blizzard.
Not heard of this guy but I feel like anyone is better than Matt Booty
I thought Dan Greenawalt was head of Turn10 though (although I noticed he didn't do the on stage stuff at e3 this year). Is he not there anymore?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is the best news I've heard since the last piece of xbox news!
Go team xbox! Xbox will rule the world!
He's over overlooked The Forza games which have been consistently good through our the years. Hopefully he has the same eye for quality for the rest if the studios going forward.
How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?
“How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?“
Forza Motorsport declined after FM4. And this release was one of the worst in the series.
After 10 years, Halfbrick is releasing a sequel to much loved side-scrolling endless runner game Jetpack Joyride. The sequel is titled 'Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush' and it follows the same fundamental as the original game, but at the same time is filled with a lot of new content. But is it any good? will it be able to get the same love as the original game?
Ori and the Will of the Wisps has crossed 2 million players since its release. This news comes via an infographic shared by Moon Studios.
Good news is that it will be optimized for XSX @120fps. I will get it a second shot then.
The game is an absolute wonder from the visuals to the music score and gameplay. It really is a console show off.
Give hollow knight a try. Ori used to be my favourite metroidvanis side scroller but hollow knight has taken it's place by an enormous margin. For me.
Both games are from different genres, so they aren't comparable and shouldn't be compared quite frankly.
It's genuinely one of this generations most underrated games and in my book a masterpiece
Agreed the game is great and i didnt think they would be able to outdo part 1, i was wrong. Cant wait for part 3.
I think Ori’s story is over. Another game in series would likely be a spin-off.
That's kind of bad. When it's a multiplat and it's free on gamepass also. PLUS it's a sequel, it's not a new IP. The IP has already been established. Not to mention it's a quality game. Just kind of sad really.
"PLUS it's a sequel, it's not a new IP" you just described any game that has more than one game in the series, well done
Well.....it is a metroidvania type of game. That isn't exactly the most popular genre these days so 2 million looks pretty good to me.
since you're referring to the genre, is 2 million players better than Bloodstained's 1 million sales?
EDIT: I mean what do you consider a better metric of success? I hope this mini resurgence of the genre leads to greater things but we'll see. I don't take stock in MAUs as a quantifiable measurement of success
@CBaoth
The real question is which generated more revenue, right? I don't see how we can answer that without having a better understanding of Game Pass internal economics along with actual Ori sales data.
one of the great MS exclusive that I bought on PC to play it and it is a fantastic game! Sony fans would've love it for sure.
2 millions for a small non "AAA" game. You tell me how many small game on Gamepass can achieve this feat.
man...not every game has to sell millions upon millions. Seems like they are doing very will with this one.
Continued success Moon Studios, Ori is a fantastic IP and the game is one of the years best. Waiting for your next project reveal.
Not bad. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but I really enjoyed the first game.
The sequel was great too. I preferred the first, but 2 is not far behind IMO. Enjoy!
hmmmmmmmm I think I'll pass on this one.
looks fun, but maybe worth playing.