This year's gamescom saw the first proper unveil of Crackdown 3 for Xbox One, a sequel in Microsoft's fan-favorite free-roaming, city-exploring open world game famed for its multiplayer hijinks and countless collectables to find.
While Microsoft promises a familiar campaign with lots of orbs to collect and up to three other people to play with, we've been shown the tease of a new physics-enabled multiplayer, where everything from walls to entire buildings can be destroyed for city-wide carnage. While how you'll play multiplayer is still under wraps, Microsoft was very keen to show its underlying impressive technology in a sandbox demo at the show. Here's what we learned.
Tencent is set to buy Sumo Group in a deal worth $1.27bn (£919m), the companies have announced.
Tencent is really buying up everything. I'm surprised everyone is selling to them like this.
No way they are worth that much. They are a support studio. I guess tencent decided to throw them an insane price that Sumo would be crazy to turn down.
Its like the godfather. "Im going to make you an offer you cant refuse"
I've heard some time ago, that they created a special unit that has a mission to search for acquirable devs all around the globe.
I doubt anyone that matters to the actual production of the games is getting a raise. The only thing that has changed is that now they can't buy any Winnie the Poo products for their kids.
Well they’re allowed. America and China are leading the world in toxic capitalism.
As publicly traded companies it's either they sell and potentially get more, or tencent initiates a hostile takeover and buys at least 51% of the shares. These companies might not even be amicable to the buy out but opt to take it because hostile takeovers are terrible.
Yep. A company that built itself by ripping off IP of small, innovative developers and out-marketing them. Tencent is everything wrong not just with gaming but corporate ethics in general, and the assymetric regulatory playing field we for some reason permit from the Chinese government. Egregiously corrupt companies like Tencent should be banned from the US market.
The US market would take Tencent to dinner and have it naked on the bed by midnight if it could. America and China are as bad as each other
They can take Sumo those devs really aren't that great. Sack boys big adventure scored good however but Crackdown 3 wasn't great. They're 50/50 Sony will find a suitable replacement for Sack boy. MS desperately needs a suitable replacement for crackdown, if it's not already too late in terms of fanfare at this point.
Sumo to me isn't that big of a deal there are better devs out there.
This is the same Sumo who made Outrun 2, 2006 Coast to Coast, Sonic Racing Transformed as well as Forza Horizon 2 on the 360. I think they are better than you give them credit for.
You might want to walk this statement back. Why else do you think this game goes for over $200 now?
https://www.ebay.com/p/5144...
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yeah, thats what I thought. $1.3 billion is very high, Insomniac sounds like a bargain deal for Sony!
at the two above me,
it's easy to sell for less when you know you're in good hands business and culture wise. I mean sure you could scratch out some extra money elsewhere but are all the people you know going to be taken care of when you get bought out? Sony takes care of them. Basically you can tell who's a scheming money scumbag by what ceo's/execs choose to be bought by. In the end money talks but there's extras to consider sometimes.
Me too! After looking them up, it seems like they were the parent of other game studios: Lab42, Red Kite, Sumo India, The Chinese Room and PixelAnt Games and also have some cryptocurrency technology.
They may also still hold the IP for back when they were Gremlin Interactive.. back in the Amiga days they were really a dev of some repute.
They're not, it's likely them just throwing money around to make sure they have no opposition. Sumo is a valuable developer as they've assisted in alot of great games. They did LBP3, Sackboy, Sonic Transformed, I believe Assisted in both ModNation Racers and LBPK, Team Sonic racing, just to name the few off the top of my head that I own.
I honestly thought ms or Sony would have nabbed them, seeing as they have worked for both on their respective ips, colour me surprised.
It's a lot of money for a group with no ips, what would they have worked on to keep so many studios and staff employed. For now at least they continue working on ips for the likes of Sony and Microsoft.
Sony and ms have more than enough ips to keep em busy, the price would have been an issue though, that I agree with, just surprised is all🤷♂️
Tencent doesn't exactly pride themselves on original IP anyway. They just steal someone else's. They only need developer drones.
They have enough to make them busy but there is no point in buying the studio that high, they could just make the developers some offers and thats it... heck every single developer could just quit the studio and with what is tensen left? no point in buying a studio with no IP you dont own the developers
I already agreed that the price was high, still don't take away that they could have been used, and be useful to either ms or sony
Microsoft recently released their Xbox Cloud Gaming PC Beta which allows users the opportunity to stream Xbox games to their Windows 10 PCs or laptops. This follows on from being able to use the cloud gaming on mobile devices which works very well but is limited to the size of your screen. Having the option to play Xbox games with a larger display has its obvious benefits.
CG writes: Nvidia’s claims that the RTX 3090 can render games in 8K at 60 FPS, ring true for us in this video. We put the game Crackdown 3 through its paces with some interesting results.
If you've ever super-sampled anything you would know why it can make things look better.
Let's talk about powahhhh of da clawwdd for a second 🤣did they give up with this thing?
Oh right, I didn't get the joke sorry, it just clicked. Hmm, is Crackdown 3 really that bad/universally hated especially as it's on gamepass?
My attempt at humour could have been clearer, in hindsight..!
Yeah, sadly Crackdown 3 had been hyped so hard and so long by Microsoft, that when it launched as a mediocre game, it got panned. It was mainly the broken promises about the power of the cloud I think that did it. This was the 'cloud power' poster child for years and it all amounted to nothing, which is a real shame, because if they'd realised their initial vision it could have been special.
I do remember the original vision where entire buildings could be demolished but wasn't that feature relegated to the multiplayer mode? For me, Crackdown 3 comes across quite generic. I suppose if it had the full destruction in the story mode that would have been bad-ass. If Red Faction Guerrilla can do it why not CD?
Crackdown 3 was made for crackdown fans. Hated by non crackdown fans. Enjoyed by crackdown fans.
I played it on PC for a little while via gamepass. It's not nearly as terrible as people would try to make it out to be, but it's the definition of a "meh" game.
There's fun to be had if you're bored.
It's good it's possible but who would pick this over 4K60 on ultra? It would look far better
100%. This is obviously just showing what can be done with the current highest end hardware, rather than what should be. And if you're splashing out for an RTX 3090 over a 3080 for gaming (small performance delta if not using that huge buffer for productivity), then I guess you'll also consider splashing out for an 8k screen. And, I mean, you'll want to be able to do *something* with it lol.
Let's be honest here, even with extra high settings at 8k 120fps... it'll still look like crap. Sorry.
Without the cloud, it's a level of destruction just not possible on any console to date. Good to see MS pushing the boundaries of gaming here
The graphics and animation doesn't look even good but destructions are great !
In the name of video game progress, I'm happy about this. One company pushes the other and although some break along the way, others rise to the challenge.
Gamers win (but our wallets suffer).
Couldn't Sony also use the cloud for the same reasons? I bet if it works well for MS, Sony will hop on board. Crackdown is hella good fun though, I'd buy an Xbox for this game.
It's all good in theory, I just wonder how it will go down when the reality of connectivity is presented.