This week Ship 2 Block 20 talks about; Sony and Microsoft Gamescom news, Microsoft announces Xbox One indie dev publishing program, Ubisoft’s Kinect game fighter, confirmed list of Xbone and PS4 launch titles, PS4 will release, Twitch support announced for PlayStation 4, and League of Legends getting hack.
For A Full list of everything we talk about Check out the show notes after the link and as always the stream is on the right side, just click play.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
That's a bit harsh for a title isn't it? Microsoft might be slow off the gate, but don't count them out of the race just yet.
I know it's probably a simple flamebait title, (I have'nt listened to the podcast).
LAAAMMEE Sony sheep podcast! Moving on!
i wonder why microsoft cant even convince 360 owners to jump to the xbox1.
How did this get approved? stuff like this will bring n4g down. imo
It's bad titles such as this that lower my faith in indie journalism even more (is that even possible?).