"Our next game is going to be something that will relate to a wide audience on a human level.".
Thatgamecompany founder Jenova Chen wants to make games that "bring people together", that "relate" to people on a "human" level. The new version of Kinect, meanwhile, can read your expression and handle up to six participants in local multiplayer. Would it be utterly, disgracefully literal-minded of me to suggest that Chen and Microsoft's whiz-bang peripheral might do rather well out of one another?
Company keen to focus on its film and TV offerings.
The Amazon-owned UK rental service Lovefilm is no longer offering games rentals, in order to deliver the best possible film and TV series rental service.
"I thought that AAA was all I'd ever want to make".
2K Marin's Jordan Thomas, who worked on the Bioshock franchise in a variety of different roles and on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified until last year, is leaving the studio to form a two man start-up venture.
Get Prey, Divinity 2, Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins, Bulletstorm on the cheap all week.
Take a seat, a deep breath and a stiff drink. Microsoft has announced the first reductions in this week's Ultimate Xbox Live Games Sale, and they're actually quite... good. Like, "Prey for under #163;3" good.
Move said to be unrelated to rumoured internal restructuring.
According to a new story on AllThingsD, Don Mattrick is poised to leave Microsoft and take a top-level job at struggling online and social gaming company Zynga.
Major Nelson responds to upset over Defense Grid: TA giveaway.
Microsoft isn't ruling out making its monthly free Xbox Live Gold games offer a permanent fixture, the firm's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has declared on Reddit.
"No one has ever 'finished poker, or football," says Ubisoft creative director.
Far Cry 3's narrative director and noted outspoken interviewee Jason VandenBerghe has penned a few thoughts for Gamasutra about what developers should do when players fail to complete their games. Which is more often the case than not, apparently.
32 Game on Demand titles down for discounting over the next seven days.
Underwhelmed by today's free Xbox Live Gold game? Perhaps you'll be more amused by the latest "ultimate" Game on Demand reductions. Over 30 titles will be discounted in the course of this week, including such top drawer offerings as Dragon Age: Origins, Bioshock Infinite and X-COM: Enemy Unknown.
Fable 4? Crackdown 3? [Insert much-demanded sequel here]?.
Thought Microsoft had blown its load of exclusives at E3? You thought wrong, according to Microsoft Studios kingpin Phil Spencer. Hmm, Gamescom's coming up in August. And Microsoft has confirmed that it will attend this year's Tokyo Game Show in September, after missing the event last year. Possibilities, possibilities.
Swery and Access Games' episodic launch title explored.
Deadly Premonition designer Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro Xbox One exclusive D4 is, it transpires, a downloadable episodic Walking Dead-style point and click series featuring prompt-driven action, comprehensive Kinect support and surreal humour. Thanks for the write-up, IGN.
Transition between online and offline components will be seamless.
Speaking to IGN, Ubisoft has given away a few more details on how multiplayer will feature in the upcoming open-world, post-apocalyptic RPG, The Division.
Product planning boss "wasn't trying to be arrogant or dismissive" with PS4 comparisons.
Microsoft' product planning manager Albert Penello has chimed in on last week's OXM story about "meaningless" PS4 and Xbox One spec comparisons, reiterating that "great games are what matters". He also, however, hinted that Xbox One's specifications might not offer a fair indication of what the machine will be capable of come release day.
No dates yet for Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed 2.
Good news and bad news, all. On the one hand, those of you who think Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed 2 are too old to be tempting free Gold games can breathe a sigh of relief. Which will then allow you to draw your breath in consternation, when you realise that today's free Gold game is, in fact, little-known and not much-hailed Arcade title Defense Grid: The Awakening.
"Hardcore gamers will buy both consoles in the end anyway".
Former Ubisoft employee Patrice D#233;silets has given a second interview to GamesIndustry, in a bid to clear up statements he made last week, when he claimed that "the future is digital, and there's nothing you can do about it."
"I heard this exact same argument last generation, and it's a pointless argument.".
Speaking to OXM at Microsoft's Xbox One reveal last month, Xbox product planning boss Albert Penello has downplayed technical comparisons between Xbox One and PS4, arguing that hardware analysis is "meaningless" when "our games and experiences are going to be every bit as good as, if not better" than those you'll find on competing consoles.
Provisional Microsoft calculations were inaccurate, according to new report.
The Xbox One Messaging Carnival continues with the discovery that Microsoft may have underestimated the new console's technical prowess, according to a report published by Digital Foundry. Citing a number of Xbox One developers, the site claims that the machine's embedded static RAM may crunch almost twice as much data a second as initially suggested.
Decision making will be "similar but different", says Telltale.
In a special edition of Telltale Games' video series Playing Dead, host AJ Locascio spoke to Walking Dead: 400 Days game director Sean Ainsworth and game designer Harrison Pink about the upcoming title's mechanics, and how it "may or may not" have a knock-on effect to events in the upcoming second season.
Initial round of testing commences 28th-30th June.
Tanketteers, rev your treads! The first bout of World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition beta testing commences this evening, and continues through Saturday and Sunday. Invites will go out to those who registered for the beta today and tomorrow. Exact times are below.
We're Tamrielly looking forward to this.
The Elder Scrolls sages over at Tamriel Foundry have released a whopping 20 minute video preview of the Elder Scrolls Online. I don't have time to watch the whole thing, but Vehq has published a helpful breakdown. Read everything you haven't already read in our own first look at Elder Scrolls Online on Xbox One below.
Check out the patch notes here.
State of Decay's second, hopefully non-broken title update is now available on Xbox Live, according to a post on the official forums. It began rollout at 9am this morning, apparently. Seen it yet?