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What would you say to leaders of services at Microsoft ?

Early next week, Major Nelson will be attending a small internal meeting where many of the key service decision makers (like Ray Ozzie) from across the company are going to get together and have an open discussion about their service offerings, compare practices, and talk strategy. What do you think they don't 'get'? He knows Google may be better in some areas, but what makes them better? What makes Microsoft not as good?

If you had ten minutes with the CTO of Microsoft, what kind of advice would you offer? What questions would you ask? During the two day meeting, he'll be sharing some of the comments there with the attendees to let them know what the community thinks of the companies offerings and strategy. So go ahead and be honest, he's listening and he'll share it with the right people next week.

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dachiefsman6073d ago

Would you please quit charging us for the live service!!!!!!!!!! now!

BLACKJACK VII6073d ago

Thank you for not spamming consumers with a HD movie format that will be defunct in less than 4 years.

Thank you for over 100 free Demos & an outstanding online experience.

Thank you for all the great games, supporting developers, & dominating Exclusives, content, & AAA games this gen.

Please give us just alittle more.....

FREE XBOX LIVE + REDUCE THE COST OF ALL ARCADE GAMES BY 50%.

mighty_douche6073d ago

hmmmm....

"HOW ABOUT GIVE BACK EVERYONES £50 BEFORE I JAM THEIS WIIMOTE IN YOUR ASS!"

or maybe

"a mate... any chance you can lend me a couple £ so i can get a ps3??"

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai1d 5h ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Rynxie15h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows9012h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie12h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_1d 4h ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot19h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface16h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware73016h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic8h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g6h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-6417h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows9012h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing6917h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman17h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

on_line_forever53m ago

I like Alone in the dark but it's not AAA game

richardmmorales8h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake2d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1011d 22h ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne1d 19h ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake1d 15h ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave1d 15h ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage1d 15h ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex1d 12h ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos1d 9h ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno1d 15h ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos1d 9h ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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