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Star Wars, mobile and free-to-play: Ubisoft's bid to transform its business

CEO Yves Guillemot: "Other publishers buy companies, we try to build things".

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RiseNShine342d ago

we build iterative sequel upon sequel ad nauseam, sometimes even reusing old game maps liike with Far Cry, congrats?

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Cameron Monaghan's Surprising Journey to Star Wars: The Unplanned Audition that Led to Cal Kestis

Discover how Cameron Monaghan unexpectedly became Cal Kestis in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, from a secretive audition to an iconic Jedi role.

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Notellin11h ago

He would kill it with a show or trilogy based around the character or some other story that involves Cal Kestis. Currently the best thing about Star Wars.

Demetrius5h ago

Ok now I get it, he is the guy from gotham lol I'm like no wonder he cal looks like jerome 🤣 dude is a good actor fasho

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Dragon Ball's Toyotarou Inks the Lead Character From a Beloved Super Nintendo Classic

Dragon Ball Super's official artist Toyotarou offers his illustrative take on a classic Super Nintendo character by the late Akira Toriyama.

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Xbox Has a Great Lineup for Fall and Spring, Is Beginning to Hit Its Stride, Says Matt Booty

Xbox Game Content and Studios president Matt Booty said Microsoft has a great lineup for Fall and Spring, having finally hit its stride.

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gold_drake1d 20h ago

please, we've heard that so many times.

cod might be a success but literally anything else that is exclusive is a big question mark, as always.

ApocalypseShadow1d 4h ago

I know right. We've heard it all before. With Microsoft, it isn't that there isn't good content coming. It's that it's coming too late for most gamers to care.

For years gamers were asking Microsoft to increase their output of games instead of selling hype and dangling carrots. While Sony and Nintendo did what gamers expected from them, which is to make great games, Microsoft was making promises and not following through even though they have the most money.

It's like Sega. I loved Old Sega. But Sega concentrated on pumping out hardware instead of just making games and getting the development community onboard what they were selling. Then, when they were firing on all cylinders with Dreamcast and Getting Soul Calibur, DOA, Sonic, Ready 2 Rumble, Skies of Arcadia, Phantasy Star Online, Jet Set Radio, etc, it was too late. Gamers and developers were burned already from 32X, Sega CD, Saturn, etc.

Microsoft has released multiple hardware configurations, multiple, MULTIPLE controllers, Kinect, Xbox One, S, X, etc when gamers were asking for games at the output of Sony and Nintendo. Actually, more so because now they are worth 3 TRILLION dollars. Leaving them with no excuses.

But it's at a time where Xbox sells at an all time low, games are releasing day one cross platform and on the competition's devices, game pass killing sales to the point that all this new effort will mean nothing at all because who's going to buy these games to return the investment? Not only that, but no one trusts Microsoft's Xbox executives. They lie and mislead, misdirect to the point that most gamers, almost most countries, don't care what Microsoft is cooking. We see the sales.

They can say they are finally hitting their stride after buying up a big part of the industry. But, they are still in third place and still getting their ass kicked by the competition who's taking their sweet time pulling out the big guns. What happens when the big guns show up from Nintendo and Sony? It'll be another public as beating for all to see. Their stride is still running from a belt.

InUrFoxHole22h ago

Let me ask you a question. Is Sony giving gamers what they want right now?

Elda22h ago

@InUrFoxHole. Sony started this year with some interesting fun 3rd party exclusives. XB hasn't released anything exclusive so far but Hellblade 2 & that game was a borefest. Next year both platforms will have some interesting games to play.

Reaper22_20h ago

Just because they aren't in 1st place doesn't mean they aren't making money. You clearly don't understand how business works. BMW doesn't sell more than Ford but they are making a lot of money. The gaming industry is huge. Believe it or not there is plenty money to be made.

purple10120h ago

My heart gets heavy when people mention jet set radio, soul calibur

Also on an extreme sports vibe, Dreamcast also had the best version of tony hawks pro skater

There was a bmx game I saw here the other day, instant buy it’s cell shaded. And looked fun, hope the soundtracks good

Zeref19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

That's a whole bunch of nothing when Xbox got more games coming out in the near and long term than both Playstation and Nintendo. But I guess we're just gonna ignore facts and pretend Sony is the end all and be all of the Industry and whatever they do is fine and doesn't deserve questioning at all. Even though we just heard their plan was for most of their games to be live service and only got cut in half because of other failures of live service games. Also forget about the terrible showcase which showed absolutely nothing promising. Concorde turning out to be a live service overwatch/marvel clone. Meanwhile we just got an actual Marvel Overwatch clone. Their main headline title is fucking Astro Bot lol, which will probably be a good game but I doubt it will move any needles.

I guess we're in the bargaining phase with you Playstation fanboys. In the real world, your opinions don't matter. Businesses don't work the way you think they do. Just because they're selling less consoles than Sony doesn't mean they're not making billions. Xbox has more monthly active users than Playstation does btw. The only metric that matters in the real world.

https://www.vgchartz.com/ar...

and thats without ABK.

https://www.gamespot.com/ar...

purple10118h ago(Edited 18h ago)

@Zeref, in the first example article you sourced it says

'Our first-party games now have over 150 million monthly active users'

im going to go out on a limb here, my guess is that includes people playing on PC, of which, there are millions of flight sim fans, along with all Bethesda games such as elder scrolls, who m$ just brought to add to their monthly active user scam

how about we compare 34 million gamepass (any tier) subs
to 50 million ps+ (any tier) subs

this shows playsytion has more payers who engage in online multiplayer, as well as more consoles sold to people who play offline, both cases playstation is more popular, so im afraid your moving the goalposts, I can see through like a glass window.

Cacabunga17h ago

B.....bb...but was the lineup crap since "Is Beginning to Hit Its Stride"? I thought you always believed your lineup is unmatched.. herd of liars at this company i have no idea how these people can sleep at night with so much lying

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just_looken21h ago

Cod is also only a success because every other AAA fps has failed or was dragged out back like old yeller

crazyCoconuts18h ago

For starters, it's not clear if we're talking about Xbox as the console or Xbox as a game publisher "hitting their stride".
Mixed messages as to how exclusive any of the future titles will be to Xbox.
Secondly, just on the game front, MS has had a consistent history of producing stinkers under their watch. Granted they've bought all these studios but statistically speaking unless they've changed dramatically, the quality will probably decrease over time as it has with their other studies. More studios to manage should make their job even harder.
But I do hope they change and surprise me. I really want Indiana Jones and Perfect Dark to be great games...

NotoriousWhiz18h ago

I don't think Microsoft cares anymore about Xbox as a console. Realistically, we could be in a 2 console market next gen, with PC also becoming more popular possibly eclipsing consoles altogether.

crazyCoconuts17h ago

@notorious that's where the mixed messages are coming in. Sometimes it sounds like everything is third party (every screen is an Xbox, clues that the next Xbox will be a PC), and sometimes they act like it's business as usual (Matt saying there will still be exclusives and these Xbox shows still not marketing to PS players).
I'd say they're in some middle ground where they want to have the cake and eat it too. I'd bet that the current momentum will drive then to give up on the hardware but who knows...

Michiel198916h ago

I'm pretty sure that ABK keeps their own leadership, just like bethesda.

1Victor17h ago

In other news Ronald McDonald say Macdonald’s burgers are the best on planet earth

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purple1011d 17h ago

"Is Beginning to Hit Its Stride". I'm sure I've heard that somewhere before

https://www.ign.com/article...

Lightning771d 15h ago

That was back in 2015 when they had some third party exclusives games. Back when it was bad to have third party exclusives. Third party will always dry up unless that's they did (360 days)

Difference is they have their own exclusives now.

purple1011d 13h ago

how about this gem

"Starfield doesn’t deserve this added pressure but it will be the first full-price game that has a chance to change minds about what Xbox is capable of. Initially, in 2021, it felt like Xbox had hit its stride"

1Victor15h ago

@lighting: “That was back in 2015 when they had some third party exclusives games. Back when it was bad to have third party exclusives. Third party will always dry up unless that's they did (360 days)

Difference is they have their own exclusives now.”
Nice oily dodge you did there slick 🤦🏿
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Personality I don’t expect anything from MS they have prove way too many times their words are worthless to the point that the shop will give you 3 free just by looking at the sky near the shop 🤷🏿

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Lightning7714h ago

What does Starfield have to do with anything?

Outside_ofthe_Box13h ago

He's just saying that it's another "been there done that" situation using Starfield as a more recent example since you said that 2015 was a long time ago.

Terry_B23h ago

lol. Just like in the last 10 years...rite? ;)

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