Details of video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc.'s high-profile deal in 2010 with Bungie Inc. to make an original game series has been made public for the first time as part of a separate lawsuit involving the Call of Duty game franchise.
Here is the start date and time for the Xbox Games Summer Showcase 2024 with bundles of exciting leaks and how to watch.
10AM PT/1PM ET/6PM london time.
on June 9th.
this is so odd. we had ps before the summer fest and now xbox after.
The rumor is 30 games with a nearly 2 hour show. I hope so I, been saying they need to go balls to the wall with their showcase. That's according to Grubb again. Yeah a huge pinch of salt he's only been wrong or half right about some stuff.
There's also suppose to be a Wu Tang Clan game that's a kungfu action RPG featuring the legendary hip hop group New Yorks own Wu Tang Clan. You read right Wu Tang Clan kungfu action RPG.
Sounds weird, random and quirky but hey I'm down to see it.
I hope it's a good showing knowing most games that will be shown will be multiplats & XB timed exclusives that'll eventually become multi-plats.
Liana "Hippy" Ruppert, a former Community Manager at Bungie, spoke out about how crunch affected the Destiny 2: The Final Shape DLC.
Crunch+Bad management+Greedy disgusting monetization.
I'll tune back in when D3 is dropping and they've toned down the monetization & the foundation is good
Final Spape campaign getting very positive reviews. I am enjoying the Final Spape campaign myself. Definitely worth the delay.
Cheat software provider EngineOwning will pay Call of Duty creator Activision nearly $15 million in damages and legal fees.
This is what developers and manufacturers should do. I know going after cheat devices/makers is a cat and mouse game, and cost money. However, they can get that money back by sueing these manufacturers of cheat devices. Take a page from Nintendo's playbook.
"The contract also specifies that the first game is a timed Xbox exclusive, created for the Xbox 360 as well as potentially for its still-unnamed successor, called the "Xbox 720" in the documentation. It could then later be released for PlayStation in 2014. In addition to the Xbox, later games could also be released for the PS3 or its successor console, as well as for PC."
Wait so instead of timed exclusive DLC, they are making timed exclusive games now?
"The first Destiny game will initially only be available on Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles, as well as its potential successor, which the contract refers to as the "Xbox 720." Later games would be made for Xbox consoles as well as Sony Corp.'s expected successor to the PlayStation 3, and on personal computers."
Oh well. Looks like I'm not getting any Bungie games for my PS consoles. I will not be treated as a second-class citizen.
Timed-exclusive DLC is one thing, but this is just going too far. What logical reason is there for not releasing this game on the PS3 as well? I'm betting a couple million from Microsoft....
This news has been known since last year and was even confirmed by Bungie at GDC 2011
http://www.kotaku.com.au/20...
If this is all true, which I'm assuming it is, it makes Bungie sound hypocritical.
You leave Microsoft because you say you're tired of being tied down to Halo, only to run into the arms of Activision, who ties you down to an extremely strict regiment given to it's Call of Duty developers as well.
I clearly remember one of the Bungie founders saying that they just wanted the freedom and space to craft what they wanted, and now you mean to tell me that they knew ALL along that they were going to be strapped down to a 2 year dev cycle, an expansion pack every other year, and the pressure to make sure EVERY game delivers of 90 on Game Rankings?
Yeah, that's a lot to swallow. Dunno how to feel about Bungie ATM. They traded one evil for an even greater evil.
Those sneaky buggers at Microsoft must have struck up another deal with Activision. I guess you could relate it to the Sony/Rockstar timed exclusivity deal for the last gen GTA titles. Except with this deal, it's just for the first title in the series.
With that said, Bungie's new game series could probably end up being associated mainly as an xbox franchise, just like GTA is associated mainly as a playstation franchise. Or you could even look at Call of Duty as an example! This would surely make a lot of playstation gamers upset.