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Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new “Standard” tier (www.theverge.com)
Capcom's slapstick zombie mall adventure Dead Rising is being remastered (www.eurogamer.net)
Xbox executives just cannot give a straight answer to questions about Tango Gameworks (www.pcgamer.com)
Tango Gameworks employee shares pictures from the Xbox studio’s final day (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Addresses Studio Closures (www.ign.com)
“The closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the team,” Spencer said. "I haven’t been talking publicly about this, because right now is the time for us to focus on the team and the individuals. It’s obviously a decision that’s very hard on them, and I want to make sure through severance...
GamesIndustry.biz: Microsoft's mystifying mismanagement (www.gamesindustry.biz)
If you’re a developer working for Xbox, what can you do to secure your job?
Eurogamer: What is the point of Xbox? (Opinion) (www.eurogamer.net)
The platform holder has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.
Bloomberg - Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings (www.bloomberg.com)
Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative
It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) (kotaku.com)
Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Call of Duty and Diablo boost Microsoft's gaming revenues, but Xbox sales continue to fall (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Microsoft has released its latest financial results, showing significant growth in gaming revenues — thanks in no small part to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard....
Opinion: Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Microsoft to lay off 1900 people across Xbox and Activision Blizzard (www.eurogamer.net)
The Inside Story Of Fable 3, The Game That Broke Its Creators' Hearts (www.thegamer.com)
This is a fascinating deep dive into the development of the game, with many people involved giving interviews. Instead of being in a long development hell, Lionhead knocked out the game in a stunning 18 months - which made Microsoft happy, but resulted in the cutting of a ton of content.
Bethesda responding to negative Starfield reviews on Steam (www.eurogamer.net)
How the Baldur's Gate 3 character creator brings modern flair to old school fantasy (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Crucially, the creator allows players to make modifications that aren’t always possible in other RPGs, letting them modify a characters genitals (choosing between preset options), identity (male, female, non-binary/other), and voice. [Lead character artist Alena] Dubrovina says including those options was about giving players...
Starfield group fixing Bethesda's bugs say their job is tough as mods feel an afterthought (www.eurogamer.net)
“What’s more frustrating for those working on SCP, and the wider Starfield modding community, is how difficult it is to work with Starfield’s code without official modding tools and support. This isn’t helped by the delayed mod tools from Bethesda, which the company says are coming at some point next year.”
Microsoft has control issues (www.gamesindustry.biz)
The effort to squash unlicensed controllers hurts plenty of paying customers, and might not even achieve its goals
Spider-Man 2 fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever (www.eurogamer.net)
2.5m copies shifted on first day
Digital Foundry - Redfall's 60fps patch works - but this isn't the redemption story we were hoping for (www.eurogamer.net)
“Assuming Arkane will continue development, clearly there are many areas for technical improvement, with some annoying visual glitches, oversights and outright bugs remaining in the updated code. I’m not sure that any amount of patching will make Redfall a truly good game, but Arkane has at least delivered the performance...
Inside Nintendo in the 1990s: Star Fox, late nights and making the N64 (www.eurogamer.net)
There are some great stories from legendary program Giles Goddard (Star Fox, 1080 Snowboarding) in this piece....
It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK (news.xbox.com)
Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.
That’s half the main games price… Just don’t buy it...
Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion (www.eurogamer.net)
Epic Games Is Cutting About 900 Jobs, or 16% of Staff (www.bloomberg.com)
Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous" (www.pcgamer.com)
While Elon’s then-partner Grimes was recording her part in the game as cyborg popstar Lizzy Wizzy, the erratic tech billionaire turned up with an antique firearm to “insist” on being included in the game. “The studio guys were like sweating,” Grimes is quoted as saying. Musk adds “I told them that I was armed but not...
Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing (www.eurogamer.net)
Starbreeze insists it is “working hard” to keep servers online after Payday 3 players endured a second consecutive evening of disruption....
Phil Spencer: "getting [acquiring] Nintendo would be a career moment for me"; Nintendo's future "exists off of their own hardware" (www.resetera.com)
Archive link: archive.ph/NF2r0...
Mid-gen Xbox roadmap hardware leak. Series S|X refreshes (digital Series X refresh at $499), controller with haptics and quieter buttons at $69.99. (www.resetera.com)
Archive link: http://archive.today/B2RBv...
Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel. (www.penny-arcade.com)
Today’s Penny Arcade is a near perfect commentary on the Unity debacle....
The Death of Unity - Opinion (www.gamedeveloper.com)
I can say, unequivocally, if you’re starting a new game project, do not use Unity. If you started a project 4 months ago, it’s worth switching to something else. Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted....
Survey finds more than half of game developers experience crunch (www.gamesindustry.biz)
IATSE’s 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions survey showed that most respondents said they worked an average of 40 hours a week, but a quarter of people who answered said they worked for 41 hours or more....
Starfield Review Thread
Game Information...
What's wrong with the Saints Row reboot again?
I got it expecting to hate it, but as I kept playing, I found myself legitimately enjoying it. Not begrudgingly enjoying it, not enjoying it outside of one or two small details, but actually being engaged in the story and gameplay. Which leads me to wondering why people had a problem with this game in the first place again?