Neowin: Gabe Newell, managing director of Valve Software, recently made critical claims about Windows 8 being a "catastrophe" for computer companies. Does the Valve head honcho have a point?
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.
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.
"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.
The full Skewedcast crew back for this episode and Gareth, Justin, Michael, and JoeyZ at Skewed and Reviewed break down the latest entertainment news qith a focus at 40:00 on the Microsoft Studio Closures and how it impacts the game community and what can be done to help offset this negative trend.
I've said it before that Microsoft release a turkey every other OS since Win 95 with ME and Vista being note able flops with home users. Windows 7 was a good OS but now Microsoft try to force gamers into Windows 8 with all this XBOX integration just like they tried to force gamers into Vista with DirectX 10.
They deserted PC gamers for the console market after using the PC as a testbed with their Sidewinder peripherals and the Microsoft Gaming Zone but now want a slice of the action that companies like Valve have developed and will try and force Steam and Origin into submission not by fair competition but by pushing their services into the back end of Windows 8. This isn't new, this is the Microsoft of old who tried to force Internet Explorer into being the standard web browser until they were forced by the courts to offer alternatives via a pop up window. I hope the same happens with Windows 8 otherwise gamers will suffer.
Windows 8 is good for indie developers as it is more accessible to have their games scene and played on the Windows Store. I find this to actually be a good things and possibly bad for the big name guys which doesn't make sense as they still can have their desktop applications there.
I see people very upset with how the start menu and screen look but let's be honest here you sepnd about 2% of your time there and the other in actually a browser or an appilcation.
I'm looking forward to what is going to happen with Windows 8 and I'm happy so far with what they are doing but it takes some time getting used to it.