The dawn of a new year brings with it unlimited possibilities. With more than 200 games already announced for Xbox 360 and many more announcements coming, 2008 has all the makings of a monster year. IGN's purpose in providing a preview of Xbox 360 in 2008 is twofold: They want to help get your mind wrapped around the bevy of promising '08 titles and they want to leave you salivating for more.
The list of IGN's predictions (details are available on the twelfth page of the article):
- Gears of War 2 Won't be Announced at GDC.
- Microsoft Won't Release a Blu-ray Player.
- Microsoft will Continue to Try to Break into Family Gaming.
- Not Every Big 2008 Title Releases in 2008.
- IGN will Stop Getting Three Red Lights E-Mails by December 2008.
Fallout: Yesterday is the re-imagining of the cancelled Fallout 3 game, and it looks awesome.
From GameWatcher: "Embracer has shut down Pieces Interactive, the studio that recently developed the Alone in the Dark Reboot for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
Pieces Interactive, acquired by THQ Nordic in 2017, worked on the Titan Quest franchise. Its most recent game, Alone in the Dark, received mixed critical reception at launch but was improved with subsequent patches."
Like we did not see this coming. Pieces and Alone in the Dark, had a kick me sign on their back the entire dev cycle to release. Perfect example of not reading current market trends, bad forecasting, marketing and release.
Why is it the perfect example?? It was actually one of the few games that did all those things well. In fact considering the current environment in the industry it actually did all those things very well.
The problem was the game itself was just rough around the edges and that’s the problem we currently have in the industry it’s hard to release something like that when everybody wants perfection and the developer and publisher doesn’t have enough to pay off all the reviewers.. it has a large cult following and had potential to be exactly what survival horror fans have been crying out for while they were waiting for silent hill 2. Don’t see what market trends and forecasting has anything to do with it at all. I don’t remember it fighting in its release window either.
Alone in the Dark would've gained more praise if it released in 2022, well before Alan Wake II and other horror projects
The demo they released a while back didn't leave a good impression, and it seems like they were riding far too much on Jodie Comer and David Hayter to be the driving force to buy the game. They're both great actors, but their performance on this game from what I've seen felt very stiff/forced - like they were out of their comfort zones. It's a shame to see another studio closure, though, and I hope the people effected (affected? I always get it wrong) can find more work soon.
Embracer's takeaway from this will probably be that they should focus on live service games.
The game looks too clean without it.
Always annoying when articles do that.
I agree with them that the tv show was a bit on the clean side. They got loads right regarding set design etc but there's room for improvement.
i dont. it hurts my eyes. but im fairly ssensitive when it comes to that sort of stuff.
Every Fallout seems to have their own color palate... New Vegas is basically brown, while 3 is green and gray. It's only 76 that has a robust color palate.
3 just isn't 3 without the green.
LOL go read PS3's.... IGN gave MUCH BETTER predictions for the PS3. MUCH BETTER.
i don t really c was so great about fable, too human and alan wake those game seem kinda boring well maybe not alan wake because i no little about it and lost Odyssey look co but infinite, whit knight, ff 13 and that one age of connan look more better
lol
jesus that is embarrassing
- Gears of War 2 Won't be Announced at GDC. This could just be hit or miss for me I hope it does get shown.
- Microsoft Won't Release a Blu-ray Player. Well MS said they would accept the winning format, but they have tons of pride so I don't think they would put it either.
- Microsoft will Continue to Try to Break into Family Gaming. It would be good if they did.
- Not Every Big 2008 Title Releases in 2008. Oh if this happens it will be a kick in the pants.
- IGN will Stop Getting Three Red Lights E-Mails by December 2008. I doubt it lol. =P