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Games for Lazy Summer Days – Puzzle Me | CheatCC

CheatCC says "The puzzle game genre is one of the most diverse out there, offering something for just about every gamer. My three puzzling picks for summer gaming fun are quite different from each other, but all of them provide brain-teasing fun without being unfair."

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Microsoft Appoints Former Forza Boss As New Xbox Game Studios Head

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."

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hiroyukisanada166d ago

Seems like a solid choice considering Forza and FH have been the only high quality studio, consistently for Microsoft.

hiroyukisanada166d ago

*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

Obscure_Observer166d ago

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!

Futureshark166d ago

What a nice reward for the latest Forza, which is probably the most mediocre of the lot so far.

amazinglover166d ago

That game was using a new engine and had to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Redgrave166d ago

So that gives it a pass to be a lesser entry than those before it?

amazinglover148d ago

@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.

Disccordia166d ago

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?

Barlos166d ago (Edited 166d ago )

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!

Lightning77166d ago

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.

babadivad165d ago (Edited 165d ago )

How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?

Lightning77165d ago

They just downvote just to downvote they have no reason.

Jin_Sakai165d ago

“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.

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World of Goo Remastered Review - Hardcore iOS

Gather the Goo Balls and travel the globe in World of Goo Remastered from developer 2D Boy and Netflix Games.

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Exclusive interview: we put Capybara Games’ nose to the Grindstone

Neil writes: "An exclusive interview with the director of Capybara Games as they talk about the release of Grindstone on Xbox and PlayStation"

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