Microsoft is to fund a remake of the cult BBC sci-fi series Blake's 7 for its Xbox Live service. Blake's 7, which was dubbed "The Dirty Dozen in space", was devised by Terry Nation, the creator of Doctor Who's Daleks, and ran for four series on BBC1 from 1978 to 1981 and became an international hit that has maintained a loyal following.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
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.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
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.
Wow its like an analogy of what's happening at MS.
Spoiler.... They all die in the end
One by one they all die
1. The always on died.
2. The friends sharing died
3. The mandatory Kinect died.
4. The idea that people wouldn't want a headset died.
5, 6, 7. TBC
Wow Microsoft is really swinging for the juglar. Entertainment Hub it is.
It will only take a couple of hours before you get it on a torrent site.
I can understand a company like Netflix doing this, but just for the Xbox One is madness. Paying for the console, Live & possibly the programme itself is not gonna get many people on board. More people will torrent this than watch it on the Xbox One.
This was the pick of the comments on the Guardian site:
"Because nothing says Microsoft better than a band of criminals led by a self serving sociopath looking for a leader lost in the wilderness, on board a flagship that implodes and gets replaced by something slightly worse every other year..."