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Microsoft Studios |OT3| I thought they were supposed to be sold off by now
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I have a few. I wish I had the patience for any of the Seriously achievements in Gears but I ultimately never have lol
I would have all the campaign achievements for the MCC but at the time when I played it the game was highly buggy and unpathced at the time and didn't register a ton of things for me, in fact I just looked at my "Next achievements" list and a bunch of them are listed there at 99% and such lol
The only ones that comes to mind currently are from Ori with the Unhinged and Immortal achievements which is One life difficulty and completing the story without dying, which if any of you have played Ori that takes some doing to get down. Extremely proud of those 1250G points. :)
Just looked and I see I have all the 1000G for the main story of Oblivion but I didn't even bother touching Shivering Isles all these years...Wtf have I been doing?
Hahaha I know, and you won't be posting more things here, but had to try :p
VG news and theorycrafting helps to empty my head of my patients' problems and those last weeks are pretty slow on news, seems it's time for me to find something else to do between visits at least for a few more weeks hahah
Enjoy your holidays everybody! (But don't do anything stupid that might get you hurt hahah)
Did you do the save copy-paste method or do it like a true man? Either way impressive! I'm too scared of attempting that.
I killed the thread :(
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So, according to Glen Schofield's LinkedIn he has -
"Director of Video Games
Nov 2018 - Present - 2 mos
San Ramon, California
Video Game Director, Studio Head"
I'm willing to bet this is a new MS studio he's heading (it's definitely a new studio and no other game studio is in San Ramon). EA and Ubisoft would have definitely announced it already to increase share prices. If it was his own independent studio he would have announced it already too. Only Microsoft makes sense and he fits them perfectly. Matt Booty did state they're looking for industry talent like Gallagher and Schofield fits that perfectly. Gallagher also probably worked with Schofield with the 3 years Gallagher was at Activision after Gallagher left Crystal Dynamics in 2015 and joined MS early 2018. Schofield was an exec at Activision if I recall, so Gallagher knowing him wouldn't be surprising at all.
The San Ramon area is located in San Francisco which is Silicon Valley and another hotbed of talent. It's around 5 hours north of LA (where Santa Monica, Obsidian and Irvine are), and has Sledgehammer, the Sony HQ, and Sony San Mateo Studio.
Also, as another person mentioned to me before, Studio Head is a term only MS and Xbox really use.
Question is, do we have to wait until E3 before we learn more? Or are we going to hear about it sooner?
"Director of Video Games
Nov 2018 - Present - 2 mos
San Ramon, California
Video Game Director, Studio Head"
I'm willing to bet this is a new MS studio he's heading (it's definitely a new studio and no other game studio is in San Ramon). EA and Ubisoft would have definitely announced it already to increase share prices. If it was his own independent studio he would have announced it already too. Only Microsoft makes sense and he fits them perfectly. Matt Booty did state they're looking for industry talent like Gallagher and Schofield fits that perfectly. Gallagher also probably worked with Schofield with the 3 years Gallagher was at Activision after Gallagher left Crystal Dynamics in 2015 and joined MS early 2018. Schofield was an exec at Activision if I recall, so Gallagher knowing him wouldn't be surprising at all.
The San Ramon area is located in San Francisco which is Silicon Valley and another hotbed of talent. It's around 5 hours north of LA (where Santa Monica, Obsidian and Irvine are), and has Sledgehammer, the Sony HQ, and Sony San Mateo Studio.
Also, as another person mentioned to me before, Studio Head is a term only MS and Xbox really use.
Question is, do we have to wait until E3 before we learn more? Or are we going to hear about it sooner?
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Glen Schofield was involved with Dead Space. Dead Space styled Halo Flood game. DO IT.
This could be really good. I imagine he worked with Gallagher while he was back @ Activision. He must have come highly recommended.
Don't know how you found this, but it could be the bay area studio I was anticipating MS was gonna have not too long ago, then again, going by their presence in the L.A and Orange Couty area, I'm expecting them to have more than one bay area studio in the future, maybe 3 just like south california, the bay area is a hot spot for talented developers even if it's expensive to run studios there, MS can certainly afford it.
Even if this turns out to be nothing, I still think they'll have some bay area studios in the not too distant future.
Nice spot, one thing to add is that on Darell Gallaghers Linkendin, it's say he started at the Initiative in April 2018, two months before it was publically announced, so its possible we may hear something soon in the new year, maybe at CES in January, or on the next Inside Xbox in February?.
That's guaranteed I think.
I mentioned her before, but with the transmedia push I'm not certain she'd fit into MS' plans. Who knows though?
Edit: Not transmedia apparently. I guess I read too fast. It looks to be up MS's alley.
Gallagher, Schofield, and Raymond as Studio Heads. Sounds incredibly great to me and already an ace first party with those 3 alone.
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Jade Raymond too what? There's only unannounced, so it's not clear if she would go to Microsoft.
Time will show if you're right or not :)
Who said anything about CA?, also RaD was ruled out by the mods, and IO is only being considered atm according to Klobrille, let's not get ahead of ourselves people.
So is this talking about a new studio or one thats already established?
Certain Affinity? That would be very usefull addition. What this studio could offer? They've done only some little arcade Age of Booty. NOTHING ELSE.
Ok, they helped, supported some other games. But they did only this. Also, while playing Call of Duty: Ghosts or DOOM, where exactly you can recognize that some part of multiplayer are done by them or not?
Asobo Studio would be much better than them.
Ok, they helped, supported some other games. But they did only this. Also, while playing Call of Duty: Ghosts or DOOM, where exactly you can recognize that some part of multiplayer are done by them or not?
Asobo Studio would be much better than them.
You gotta start somewhere, and go where the work is. Asobo only made average Disney games before having the chance to work on other IP. CA has the talent, just haven't had many opportunities to work on their own thing. Kind of like Splash Damage.
If it means we get a spiritual successor to Dead Space then I'm fully on board.
Part of its just the tech culture, the east coast at least is a lot of government contracting and older companies pivoting to tech, Amazon and Google and even Microsoft do have presences, but they're more campuses focused on liasing with federal stuff. It's changing in a few cities over here, and Raleigh Durham is becoming a little more open, Richmond Virginia and New York are attracting more creative types, and Atlanta could do a lot for it, but it's a long way off.
The west coast just started with more creative and free form tech and that spirit has carried through time, so there's more studios there now, and thus more people out there to start new studios after the leave existing ones. Amazon HQ2 might start to change that a little, but it'll still be a while. Small studios start every now and then, but they just can't compete with places like Epic or Bethesda for the already limited pool of talent.
I mean this doesn't really work, for one by and large game devs don't make that much, except for the executives and studio heads and stuff. Like a bog standard programmer isn't making that much, especially when compared to other tech sectors.
But also there is a huge difference in cost of living. 200k in California, doesn't go nearly as far as it does in Ohio or whatever. Like I said, there's already a lot of talent on the west coast, and those people leave studios that are established and start new studios in the place they already live and are established. It's shifting as living and starting a business in California gets harder and more expensive, Austin is coming up, Colorado, Maybe Chicago shifts over time.
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Just this one? What exactly talented has he done earlier for Bungie or for CA? :)
They created the best multiplayer maps for probably every game they worked on. They did the entire mp for halo 2 anniversary in halo mcc. They are very talented... a league above asobo.
Selfishly I'd love it but I think CA wants to do their own thing. Max's Halo maps were the GOAT.
If you had job where you could make 200k a year and company A is in California but company B is in Ohio, which do you think most people would choose?
I'm not trolling. I'm just asking ;)
For me, CA isn't something special. There are more better teams to consider.
They already picked SkyBox Labs to help.
I hope one of the studios they announce next e3 is remedy, not really for any new IP, just for quantum break 2, :D.
If that's related, that person who's job was help Compulsion attract talent did an incredible job hahaha
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