Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge.
The creator behind Hunter x Hunter is dipping his toes into the world of video game horror with artwork of one of the best-selling PlayStation titles.
Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.
Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately
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Goes right back to them as partners.
Okaaaaaay...
Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
I've heard there's "civil War" within MS. Between team Xbox and MS.
Putting the pieces there's no way Team Xbox can be that stupid. This is definitely a Satya and the rest of MS doing all this shit.
Not like it matters the industry is being torn apart by MS because they're not giving back to the gamers. The fact they can't get it together and they make excuses for their crap that they do is just amazing.
Rumors has it M$oft was furious with Xbox fumble with Activision purchase and leaks that they're it's basically like a father with a teenager and their father's credit card and now Daddy can't get the money promised so he's about to cut off spending
As if Matt Booty's first message to staff wasn't already full of holes...
Why you lyin why you always lyin? Because if that was true then tango would be open today.
Dafuq lol