OXM - The times they are a-changing, and it's an exciting era to be an Xbox owner. The brand may have been born and raised in America, but its future - from new franchises to cutting edge features - is currently being forged on our fair isles. Here are five UK-based studios that are helping to shape the new generation.
Pure Xbox writes: "Microsoft has appointed Alan Hartman as the new Head of Xbox Game Studios. If you're not familiar with Hartman, he's been part of Forza Motorsport team at Turn 10 Studios since 2005.
Over the past couple of years he's led as Corporate Vice President of Forza and Fable, and before this was the Forza Studio Head at Turn 10."
Seems like a solid choice considering Forza and FH have been the only high quality studio, consistently for Microsoft.
*Forza and FH are the most consistent high quality and this guy ran Turn 10. Playground did FH but still high quality. Let's see if he can get some quality production out of the rest
He´s been doing an excellent job ahead of both Forza franchises integrating those studios to work together by sharing knowledge, technology and manpower.
The new ForzaTech is amazing and I can´t wait to see what it can do for the new Fable.
Phil Spencer has been promoting a huge shake up at Xbox with new leadership hopefully full of fresh ideas!
I hope Alan Hartman as head of XGS to keep the focus on single player games and RPGs. Fable looks absolutely stunning, so we can expect Forza Horizon´s level of excellence for Playground´s first RPG.
I can´t wait!
What a nice reward for the latest Forza, which is probably the most mediocre of the lot so far.
@redgrave not an excuse an explanation for why this game has less features. Not my problem you don't understand how game development works or development in general. When you move to a knew platform some things need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
I am currently migrating one of our services we provide to our customers to the cloud version and having to rebuild a lot of the add-ons we had built for them over the years.
But go ahead and keep criticizing devs when no one here has any clue what it actually takes.
Still think Rod Fergusson would have been a good shout. He's got a track record of fixing stuff and I assume he's still at Blizzard.
Not heard of this guy but I feel like anyone is better than Matt Booty
I thought Dan Greenawalt was head of Turn10 though (although I noticed he didn't do the on stage stuff at e3 this year). Is he not there anymore?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is the best news I've heard since the last piece of xbox news!
Go team xbox! Xbox will rule the world!
He's over overlooked The Forza games which have been consistently good through our the years. Hopefully he has the same eye for quality for the rest if the studios going forward.
How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?
“How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?“
Forza Motorsport declined after FM4. And this release was one of the worst in the series.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps has crossed 2 million players since its release. This news comes via an infographic shared by Moon Studios.
Good news is that it will be optimized for XSX @120fps. I will get it a second shot then.
The game is an absolute wonder from the visuals to the music score and gameplay. It really is a console show off.
Give hollow knight a try. Ori used to be my favourite metroidvanis side scroller but hollow knight has taken it's place by an enormous margin. For me.
Both games are from different genres, so they aren't comparable and shouldn't be compared quite frankly.
It's genuinely one of this generations most underrated games and in my book a masterpiece
Agreed the game is great and i didnt think they would be able to outdo part 1, i was wrong. Cant wait for part 3.
I think Ori’s story is over. Another game in series would likely be a spin-off.
That's kind of bad. When it's a multiplat and it's free on gamepass also. PLUS it's a sequel, it's not a new IP. The IP has already been established. Not to mention it's a quality game. Just kind of sad really.
"PLUS it's a sequel, it's not a new IP" you just described any game that has more than one game in the series, well done
Well.....it is a metroidvania type of game. That isn't exactly the most popular genre these days so 2 million looks pretty good to me.
since you're referring to the genre, is 2 million players better than Bloodstained's 1 million sales?
EDIT: I mean what do you consider a better metric of success? I hope this mini resurgence of the genre leads to greater things but we'll see. I don't take stock in MAUs as a quantifiable measurement of success
@CBaoth
The real question is which generated more revenue, right? I don't see how we can answer that without having a better understanding of Game Pass internal economics along with actual Ori sales data.
one of the great MS exclusive that I bought on PC to play it and it is a fantastic game! Sony fans would've love it for sure.
2 millions for a small non "AAA" game. You tell me how many small game on Gamepass can achieve this feat.
man...not every game has to sell millions upon millions. Seems like they are doing very will with this one.
Continued success Moon Studios, Ori is a fantastic IP and the game is one of the years best. Waiting for your next project reveal.
Not bad. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but I really enjoyed the first game.
The sequel was great too. I preferred the first, but 2 is not far behind IMO. Enjoy!
Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Two set to adopt elite battle tactic in these troubled times for traditional gaming consoles
"Troubled times for traditional gaming consoles " lol a little dramatic wouldn't you say?!?! No I imagine if Sony continues what they are doing along with everything else that they are bringing to the table, they'll be just fine. Latency is a thing and it's the biggest hurdle for streaming.
You can't just magically say something and it happens. The Stadia is in for an uphill battle because of latency and the fact that quality games take talented people to make and it takes years to do this.
Film and tv are completely different animals compared to games especially games with the graphical fidelity that games have now.
Again it's not hard for me to see the PS5 being extremely successful because at this point Sony has so many talented devsdevs and those aforementioned studios and with it being BC and having a connected cross gen system they will be going into next gen strong.
It's just the usual doom and gloom articles Sony receives before every new launch.
Yes. The competition is higher. But Sony seems to handle their console business well with a proven track record.
I think Sony would be more worried about tariffs and world markets before Google Stadia and their legion of YouTube influencers.
And the fact that they sent their trillion dollar market cap competitor home with their tail between their legs that they can't even announce numbers unless it's useless metrics to look good instead of numbers that matter.
What's another near trillion dollar company to Sony? They eat them for breakfast. Then sit back and take a sip of sake.
Agree but you know Sony aren't a tiny underdog indie outfit dont you? They're a massive conglomerate.
Stadia is shit for me but imagine the wanna be gamer who can’t buy the next gen console and games for over $500 with games, I guess for cheap they can play day one.
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so true. sony will have my money for ps5 as soon as i can preorder - i don't care about any of the other ways to game.
All they need to do is cook up some popcorn. Stadia is going to crash and burn all by itself, I don't think I've seen anyone talk about it as a serious contender. Like the Ouya it's just a laughing stock.
Which is a physical problem for the medium. There just isn't much you can do to cut down latency over long lines. Not even fiber. We are talking latency in the range of 33ms or below. All the services are above 100ms. I mean, I have the most advanced game streaming today - PS Now (yeah, it is, they are years ahead and a service you can actually buy today) but it has at least one frame delayed. And 60fps is not problem for PS Now at all..that is hardwired gigabit Ethernet on a fiber line into my living room. Google tries to sell stadia with a WiFi controller. This is hilarious. This automatically adds WiFi lag to every game, no matter how you wire it.
They have had that for a very long time. It's called physical games and regular digital downloads.
I cant wait to stream games to my mobile device....... for free from my Xbox.
I know Google expect backlash from hardcore gamers but they're dreaming if they think casuals will buy full price games, pay extra for 4k and experience latency.
The whole thing is better pitched as a complimentary service to an existing platform like PS or Xbox.
Imo of course.
What troubled times? Don't listen to the BS Google is spewing. They haven't even established themselves in the gaming market yet. I don't see their PoS with no exclusives selling very well.
The only good studio that is actually doing anything good for Microsoft is 'Remedy'.
Alan Wake was Amazing ( The downloadable that followed wasn't as good as the original ) & Quantum Break looks really interesting, I might get a Xbox One for it.
Fable anniversary is going to be really good not that intrested in lionheads other game though
Excited that Microsoft is hiring talent to make more exclusives
A new Perfect Dark and Banjo or Conker from Rare would be awesome
Fable Legends is going to be incredible using Unreal Engine 4
Phil Spencer says they are bringing back old Xbox franchises and that MS has more games in development now than they've ever had
The launch games have been great and this year is looking like it's going to be even more impressive
I'm hoping for Rare to go back to its original root's in terms of the game's. MS could shift the kinect games to some other dev's.