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Read More »Microsoft parity cause rules out Curve Digital games for Xbox One
Games such as The Swapper, MouseCraft and Titan Attacks won’t be released on Xbox One. That, developer Curve Digital says, is because of the parity clause imposed by Microsoft on indie devs which stipulates that games are released on Xbox One at the same time they arrive on other systems. …
Read More »Microsoft in negotiations with Showtime for Halo TV deal – report
Microsoft Xbox Entertainment Studios is reportedly in deep negotiations” with cable television network Showtime to create a live-action Halo drama series. Variety reports the two companies are close to a deal,” with the current hangup apparently revolving around how the series would be aired between Showtime’s network and Microsoft’s Xbox …
Read More »Xbox One’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 swinging to retail this month
Activision has said that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be released physically on Xbox One in the UK some time in early May. In mid April the Xbox One version of the game mysteriously disappeared from release schedules, with Activision simply saying that it was working with Microsoft in an …
Read More »Gates would support Xbox division breakaway
But also says he’s open to seeing Microsoft’s gaming and Xbox divisions working closer together
Read More »And Microsoft recruits new marketing agencies, too
Microsoft has named two global advertising agencies after a three-month review. Interpublic Group and Dentsu Aegis Network will manage its marketing and media accounts worldwide, with an account revenue worth around $100m. The idea behind the review was to reduce its advertising business to just a single entity, but splitting …
Read More »McGee: Xbox One will fail in China
Developer American McGee has described Microsoft’s decision to release Xbox in China as a ‘blunder’. China-based McGee, the creator of titles such as Alice: Madness Returns and Bad Day LA, is the second vocal critic of the strategy after analyst Piers Harding-Rolls said yesterday that success was not guaranteed” in …
Read More »Microsoft Spotlight: MMOs in the cloud
How Azure helped a five-person indie to rewrite the rules of MMOs
Read More »Exclusive IP remains a key strategy for Xbox
With a decent line-up of exclusive games both already available and on the way, it’s perhaps no surprise, of course. But Xbox boss Phil Spencer has stressed once again that the development, publishing and availability of exclusive games on Xbox One is an actively pursued strategy at Microsoft. Exclusive games …
Read More »Xbox boss confirms Microsoft is working on virtual reality
Phil Spencer has said that the virtual reality revolution may indeed finally be upon us. Furthermore, speaking to Forbes the Xbox boss confirmed that Microsoft has been toying with the tech for some time, although any official announcement sounds way off. Virtual reality is a really interesting area, especially for …
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