Left 4 Dead 2 on PC is open to fan modification. Indeed, it's encouraged by Valve, who not only released the tools to enable gamers to do so, but even pledged to promote one user-created map each week for the foreseeable future. One such mod is 'Cold Stream' – a fan-made campaign set in a forest that's been picked up by Valve who have officially released it on PC after months in open Beta as a free download. As a first for Xbox 360, this very same fan-made content is coming to Xbox 360 on Friday.
For 560 MS Points.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Microsoft has been doing this for years. They simply want the IPs. Look at Nokia. Look at Skype. This time it simply expanded to games. Gaming is not as important to Microsoft’s executives as it was to the founders too. Bill Gates was willing to sell the og Xbox at a loss. Steve Balmer approved the red ring of death fiasco. This CEO isn’t really a gamer.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?
xbox 360 is a console, which means its a locked down platform. Console gaming in general is quite expensive compared to Pc, specially these days when console makers are penny pinching on everything possible.
Pc being an open platform acts like a resistance toward this trend, console makers hate this. its a reason why Ms is trying to lock down the next release of windows. personally i think they will fail very badly.
in general console gamers only have themselves to blame for the ill treatment they get. i think console gamers need to grow a pair and ask for mod tools on every game. it would surely go a long way to serving all the gamers pc and console.
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Might have been true last gen. This gen the tables have turned. A 500usd PC these days comes equipped with a quad core CPU and a GPU thats generations ahead of consoles here is an example:
http://www.tomshardware.com...
The above PC costs about the price of a console at launch. Even today 300usd for console vs 500usd for PC that isnt much of a difference.
Now consider 1 game like Left4dead 2 on console costs 30usd plus 5usd for each DLC(think there are 5), plus charges to go online. On PC the same game is only 5usd with all the DLCs free.
Now consider many such examples can be drawn. Hence console makers might trick people into believing consoles are cheap, however that has changed. The amount of penny pinching this gen is out of whack.
Lastly consider all the discounts available on platforms like Steam these days. Its literally possible to buy multiple AAA games just few months after release for 50usd. On console the prices hardly drop.
So no the tables have turned, consoles now stand as the more expensive platform, for people who want to game anyways. For those looking to buy 1-2 games only over the consoles life, then yea consoles are cheaper.
Microsoft forces them to charge. Several developers, including Valve and Epic, have butted heads with Microsoft over their insistence on charging for everything. They claim it "devalues the content" if you don't charge for it.
"Why should 360 gamers have to pay when it's free on PC?"
Cuz what M$ says goes for them. They even pay for online multiplayer & web browsing. Also cloud saving is free on steam with extra free content & mods xbox owners would want.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Unless you like the 3 major franchises (halo, gears & forza.. Fable 3 is on steam..) & cod. Buying xbox is not justifiable to me. imo.
i might get fanboy rage but is valve gonna put Left 4 Dead on the PS3?
Because Microsoft wants MONEY!
Microsoft would charge X360 Gamers $1 every time they opened up the X360 to change disc if they could justify it!!
If there is Money to be made Microsoft will nickel and Dime you to get it.
*....and to all the people up above arguing over the price of a Gaming PC vs. Console..... JUST STOP IT!! A PC does more than JUST play games therefore it SHOULD cost more than a console*