G4 writes:
"When Microsoft unveiled the New Xbox Experience last year, it also promised an infrastructure that would allow it to deliver more regular updates to the dashboard. That…never happened. It's been nearly a year since the dashboard has seen any new features, but I recently chatted with Xbox Live chief of staff Steve Willet, who told me the team has spent much of the past year ensuring that's not an issue in the future and why Microsoft was cautious about new updates.
"When you make a transition like we did last year," explained Willet over the phone last week, "where you're really trying to fundamentally overhaul the way people had come to experience the device they had purchased, we were maybe, in retrospect, a bit overly cautious about how much change or increment we would do shortly after that release."
It's not like the Xbox Live team wasn't immediately aware of issues that needed to be addressed or features that would make sense in the short term, but the completely revamped dashboard look spooked them from tinkering too much, he claimed."
Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.
Huzaifah from eXputer: "Sleeping Dogs from the early 2010s is one of the best open-world games out there but in dire need of a resurgence."
You say "yet" as if it's even possible anymore. United Front Games is gone, along with anyone that made this game what it is
That’s what happens when games sell poorly. And I’ve seen people wonder why people cry when a game sells badly… this is your answer.
Majority of the time it's true but if a company/publisher is big (in terms of money), they can take a hit or 2. e.g. I am not worried about Rebirth sales as Square will make Remake 3 anyway but if FF 17 doesn't sell then Square might need to look for alternative. <-- my humble opinion
Oh okay, Activision owned True Crime, but when that didn’t sell as intended it was canceled. Six months later Square Enix bought the rights and changed the title to Sleeping Dogs.*
*As per Wikipedia
Sleeping Dogs was a sleeper hit back then. It was fantastic. It actually still is. Would love a sequel to this, or at least a revive of True Crime series.
Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II was an intriguing and unique RTS title, that sadly suffered in its console port.
Was just thinking about this game and wishing I had a way to revisit it. The way EA scrubs these titles from existence once their licensing runs out is horrid.
Indeed. The game can still be played online on PC.
Xbox 360 players, though? Bang outta luck.
The first wave of updates drops on August 11th. Any requests for the future?