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Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program has come a long way since it first started in 2013. While the curated self-publishing program’s first titles included smaller indie games such as Drinkbox Studios’ Guacamelee and Nicalis’ 1001 Spikes, it’s now home to some of the biggest and most ambitious independently developed titles the industry’s …
Read More »Scorpio could see Xbox push ahead of PlayStation in 2017
The launch of what will be the world’s most powerful ever console later this year could be enough to hand sector momentum back to Xbox. That’s the prediction of NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella, who told Games Industry that he was satisfied that yesterday’s tech announcement was enough to deliver the …
Read More »Microsoft reveal Project Scorpio specs
The tech inside the next iteration of Xbox has been revealed to Digital Foundry
Read More »Microsoft hire Liz Hamren as VP of mixed reality
Microsoft take a public step forward on mixed reality, hiring Hamren from Oculus
Read More »The Halo World Championships was the most successful Halo event ever
The 2017 Halo World Championships that took place last weekend have become the biggest Halo event ever in terms of viewership. At its peak the streams for the Halo World Championships hit over 135,000 concurrent viewers across Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and Beam. Beam is Microsoft’s Twitch competitor if you were …
Read More »Indies sing praises of Microsoft’s ID@Xbox programme
Independent developers have called Microsoft’s ID@Xbox programme hugely important” to the games industry, and have singled it out as one of the easiest digital publishing platforms to work on across all platform holders. Speaking to MCV at an ID@Xbox preview event this week, several developers were very warm in their …
Read More »Recruiter Hot Seat: Remedy
Mikaela Oberg-Mattila talks about Remedy’s recruitment needs, what it’s like to work at the Finnish developer and why you should join the team – spoiler alert, the office has a sauna, that’s why.
Read More »Xbox One gets new Tech Series controllers
Microsoft has announced yet another controller option for the Xbox One. Launching next month, the Recon Tech Special Edition is the first is a new Tech Series of Xbox controllers. It’s priced at $69.99 in the US, where it will arrive on April 25th. In developing this new controller series, …
Read More »Halo Wars 2: Controlling the Battle
Sean Cleaver spoke to Creative Assembly’s Alistair Hope about Halo Wars 2’s new game modes and the reasoning behind keeping the original game’s control scheme
Read More »Designing for HDR
Sean Cleaver speaks to Playground Games and The Coalition about designing a game for HDR.
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