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Xbox Game Studios |OT6| I'M BACK (TO RISE)
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Gears POP, 500k+ downloads in its first day, Android only, should be close to 1M now.
Who would have thought? Lol.
Who would have thought? Lol.
Reviews are pretty good also. Its sits at a 4.2 out 5 on android store.
It is legitimately fun, I've mainly been doing the horde mode mixing in a pvp match every now and then.
It's funny when we're looking back at its initial announcement in where most were disregarding the potential success of a game like Gears Pop (or just any mobile game based of a console property). I'm not too sure how well Age of Empires: Castle Siege did, but i'd be curious to see them bring something like that back while the mainline Age series is back up and running. Forza Street on Android/iOS will be interesting as well :)
It's not available for me (Belgium) either, but i changed my region on the Windows Store to USA and i can play it without any issues :D
Ofcourse im not sure whether i can get in trouble for changing my region in order to play this game. I think someone at Xbox said it isn't a problem, but i'm not fully sure on that.
Nah thats fine. Problem is that i want to play it on my phone tho.
Even here on Era comments are positive in their majority aside from the normal concern about monetization, but since they use the "standard" for that type of games there's no outrage (although I was kinda hoping MS would try to use a more light monetization scheme than the standard to gain some PR points, but well)
It's cool seeing 7-8 full clans of people from the site (although maybe not all are, since they are set to public. But anyway I don't remember that much talk here about a mobile game (outside of Nintendo ones) so it seems to bode well
I played so much Castle Seige... Really my first foray into Age
The situation you are describing is something that is technically feasible on paper but very rarely happens in real world use. More often than not, the deal is rejected by shareholders or regulators, and the buying company either revises their tender, withdraws from negotiations, or just proceeds with a hostile takeover. If there is another bid from another company, it would only come after months of research and planning, not as some knee jerk reaction to the initial bid.
And again, I'm describing these same negotiations that take place long before an offer is proposed, with months of careful deliberation, not the reactions that take place after an offer is already put on the table. Obviously once a buying company has reached that point, they are well into advanced talks.
While I'm sure it's not a hard and fast requirement, it's definitely a thought that's going to cross minds when discussing an acquisition. Having studios working on the same engine makes it easier to share tech and experience, and it makes horizontal mobility easier.
Like for sure if there's a studio with a pedigree and a lot of potential that comes to Xbox about an acquisition or has a strong relationship with them, and all other aspects or the acquisition make sense, Phil isn't not going to cut a check just because they don't use Unreal.
But when they're looking at some midsized studio somewhere and weighing their options, using Unreal will definitely be a tick in the pros column.
I hate it, it robbed me of a streak chest because of a network error.
I hate you, Gears Pop!
When you play against people with level 10 Marcus and snipers while yours are like 5 or whatever, you're going to lose.
It's pay to win.
How dare you support such dastardly monetization schemes!! (I also bought a pack earlier today, I'm part of the problem)
I'm usually opposed to microtransactions in any game but I gotta get dem achievements. Lol
I have no idea. TC is trying to keep hush-hush on the campaign, so maybe the day before launch?
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My kvetching aside this does look rad and I am super pumped for gears 5!
Damn. Are they afraid some reviewers are going to spoil the story then? How did this go for Gears 4? I don't remember, were there reviews way before launch?
Hopefully that means a bit of campaign footage. But it's still august, doubtful probably.
4's embargo ended Oct. 6th, five days before launch.
Control will be an interesting study on whether platform marketing deals effect the development of games on competing platforms. Control should look and play noticeably better on Xbox One X than it does on PS4 Pro since Xbox One X is objectively more powerful, and there's the added bonus that Remedy knows the Xbox platform inside and out - given that they've been a second party developer for well over a decade prior to this release.
The day of the launch on GP? Well, there's goes my hope that it would be the first day or so of September. I don't understand what's the point of revealing something like that when everyone can play it. (I know, there are folks without GP).
Ah well.
Does the Game Pass mobile app show PC games yet? Or if it does is there anyway to filter?
If not I do hope that's a feature that's coming.
If not I do hope that's a feature that's coming.
Watching a Jim Sterling video of Games that should have been more successful. Enslaved is in there and man I forgot what a great title that was. Great animations and visuals for the time, actually still looks decent enough and just a very enjoyable game with likeable characters.
See, that's what I hope we get to see again from Ninja Theory in the future. If we're talking AA and AAA, Enslaved surely was AAA, right?
See, that's what I hope we get to see again from Ninja Theory in the future. If we're talking AA and AAA, Enslaved surely was AAA, right?
Yep, the beta of the mobile app added PC game support over the past week - PC and console titles now each have their own 'tabs' for listing available titles, and managing playlists etc.
Edit: quick tip! When searching for titles that are on both PC and Xbox, they'll appear twice in the search results - before hitting 'install', check that you're installing the right one! (I couldn't work out why Kingdom Come: Deliverance wasn't downloading to my console...only to find that I had inadvertently kicked off the install on my PC instead).
Down pitch, add some echo effects, and you got some scary Flood sounds.
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