Following their big announcement Undead Labs woman in charge or (WiC) short for Witch…not really. Emily Diehl hunted down members of the team and held them down and most likely water boarded them for answers to the questions the fans have.
Apparently the questions were too much so she split it into two parts, tomorrow will have more details on the MMO game and design details. Until then feast your eyes on my summary of information or as I like to call them “lazy articles."
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.
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!
"Today we are excited to announce that the Undead Labs Studio Head and Founder, Jeff Strain, is launching an exciting new initiative."
Great to see that all of Microsoft's new studios are seeing growth now that they are a part of Xbox Game Studios.
Phil Spencer is not only acquiring new studios he ´s making them bigger and better. Great job, Phil!
A studio not headquatered in Washington or California? I..I need to sit down..
Now that the acquisition has slowed down, it all about heavily investing in the studios. We already saw great talent reaching Obsidian, Playground games. the initiative and the Inxile. Ninja theory in the midst of building a new studio in Cambridge and now undead labs are starting a new one.
The only studio that has been under the radar is Compulsion games.
