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Call of Duty: Ghosts to use dedicated servers on Xbox One, new “Blitz” game type revealed

Gamescom 2013: Call of Duty: Ghosts to use dedicated servers on Xbox One, new “Blitz” game type revealed

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drsfinest723917d ago

No dedicated servers for pc or ps4? Man they should of live stream all this..

GamingWithMack3917d ago

Not known if exclusive to Xbox One yet. Probably not.

magzter3917d ago

One of the big announcements about Xbox Gold on the X1 was Microsoft providing dedicated servers for games.

trafalger3917d ago

it wouldnt be exclusive, the problem is sony does not provide servers to 3rd party publishers. at least they never did in the past. call of duty used demonware on the ps3 which is why when call of duty launches on the ps3 there are more issues than we see on the x360. thats because on the x360 its handled on m$ end. activision has to guess how much demand is on the ps3 whereas m$ takes care of all that. now that m$ is going to have 300,000 servers around the globe expect that gap to increase which is why sony is now charging to play online. m$ has invested billions of dollars into their online structure.

van-essa3917d ago

It's not XB1 exclusive (at least I don't think so), they would be screaming it from every rooftop if it were the case. Come on people get real, expect Sony to reveal the same later during their conference.

Kingdom Come3916d ago

Microsoft are openly handing Dedicated Server's to First and Third-Party developers, as to ensure the X1 Version of games have the greater online experience.

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Kingthrash3603917d ago

I had the same thought.....I really doubt it.

Gazondaily3917d ago

Yeah I doubt the PS4 version won't have dedicated servers.

I'm glad P2P is fast becoming a thing of the past now. Finally!

Blackdeath_6633917d ago

WTF???!!! i don't get it what is the point of Xbox one's "Advanced matchmaking" using the "power of the cloud" when most next gen games are using dedicated servers?

PtRoLLFacE3917d ago

Blackdeath_663
lol dedicated servers are provided by the cloud moron

_FantasmA_3916d ago

They just say they have TrueSkill matchmaking or some BS so people will be tricked into thinking that they are getting their money's worth. I always used to get put on bad teams on Gears and Halo. True Skill my ass, more like True Lies.

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Wizziokid3917d ago

"No dedicated servers for pc or ps4?"

Where does it say that?

JackStraw3917d ago

apparently you don't understand question marks.

B-radical3917d ago

It does seem alot of next gen games are going dedicated servers

gazgriff2k123917d ago

dedicated servers are not a magic fix. ask pc players what they think of cod's netcode

sorane3917d ago

I'm a pc player and I can't remember one time since cod4 where I have experienced lag or anything in a CoD game I own. Granted I don't play the game a whole lot, but I can't remember having any problems at all.

famoussasjohn3917d ago

They'll probably say more stuff for servers on PC later, they usually don't have details to share until the last month or so until launch.

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Kingthrash3603917d ago

more cod news!!!!!! sooo last year...
jokes aside dedicated severs for cod now....they are really trying to catch bf....is it just me...im really unimpressed with ghosts.....I thought with new consoles they would wow me....they didnt....bf4 for me this year...cod after

CerebralAssassin3917d ago

They are both launch day purchases for me. I dont need to pick. Luckily.

drsfinest723917d ago

They did dedicated servers for gears and they forced you to buy a dlc for it. I bet they are going to force some sort of dlc just so you could get didicated servers

tokugawa3917d ago

What are you talking about????????? I dont remember anyone forcing me to buy dlcto play gears on-line

smh

lastofgen3917d ago

lol what??
I never purchased dlc to have access to gears dedicated servers... what are you talking about? :/

DARK WITNESS3917d ago

when gears 3 launched it had Dedicated servers out the door, but also some games were played P2P, like if the servers were down or whatever.

Then they changed it so only people who downloaded a particular dlc would play on the servers and if you didn't you played P2P.

There was never a problem playing online but to get on the servers you needed the dlc basically. although if I remember right I think TD could still be played on servers , but you needed the dlc for any of the other game modes

famoussasjohn3917d ago

What? Could you at least attempt to troll decently?

TheKingWilliamV3917d ago

OMG!!! Yes dedicated servers great news Microsoft now keep up the good work at Gamescon.

(prepares flame shield)

tokugawa3917d ago

Dedicated servers for cod.... I will now buy this.

If this is a microsoft exclusive thing. Then they should start shouting it

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Microsoft Opening Xbox Mobile Game Store in July

The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."

Jin_Sakai1d 8h ago (Edited 1d 8h ago )

“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.

MrDead1d 8h ago

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.

XiNatsuDragnel1d 6h ago

Good luck with this even it might not succeed.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga20h ago(Edited 20h ago)

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 14h ago

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.

Zachmo18219h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie9h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

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.

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Hereandthere13m ago

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.

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Notellin5h ago

"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.

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Hereandthere11m ago

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.

Hereandthere15m ago

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.

OtterX21h ago

"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.

RNTody21h ago(Edited 21h ago)

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?

Inverno20h ago

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.

Inverno18h ago

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.

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fsfsxii5h ago

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.

Inverno4h ago

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?

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Game Studio Closures, Entertainment News, Disney, And More Skewedcast

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.