"There seemed to be a silent but universal acknowledgement amongst all indies that Microsoft had dropped the ball early on with the Xbox One "
"Some developers even stated that they found it easier to port their games on to Xbox than PlayStation"
"Iceberg Interactive are today very thrilled and proud to announce its participation in Gamescom 2023, one of the most anticipated gaming events of the year." - Iceberg Interactive
2023 marks the 10-year anniversary of the ID@Xbox indie publishing program. The program has helped bring over 3,000 games to Xbox, and paid out more than $4 billion to developers. Director of ID@Xbox Chris Charla looks back at the last decade – and looks forward to what’s still to come.
Developers Laps Games and publisher Iceberg Interactive are excited to announce Land of the Vikings, a city-building strategy game set in the Viking era coming to PC via Steam. Early access will be available on Q4 2022.
Microsoft heard all of the complaints about their policies and decided you rectify all the problems. With a new policy.
"You must say nice things about ID@XBox or you will never be allowed to release a game again. Also we may break one or both of your legs."
Cuphead looks neat.
The persistent problem is do you trust MS? If they have rectified a problem that is fine. However, their initial considered business strategy was very restrictive for Indie devs. MS has no choice but to reverse direction on so many of their policies as they are losing market share compared to the previous generation platform. Thankfully robust competition has kept MS in check. Without it, imagine where MS would take gaming.
Finally done right?
They made an entire f'n games section for them last gen. Put them on the console map.