"Highlight the quality while openly accepting a sea of content creators," urges former Infinity Ward man.
Robotoki founder and former Infinity Ward man Robert Bowling has added his voice to the chorus of independent developers calling for lower entry thresholds to publication on Xbox One. Speaking to OXM ahead of the next generation Xbox reveal, Bowling urged Microsoft to adopt looser, less cost-intensive policies in order to win back developers from PC and mobile.
"Are YOU ready for The Fall?".
Well, are you? Or did you not ask for this? A tweet from the official Eidos-Montr#233;al Twitter feed suggests that some kind of Deus Ex announcement isn't far off, baldly stating "Are YOU ready for The Fall?"
"Join fans from across the globe to discuss all things Fable," reads highly suspect blog.
Riddle me this: why on Earth would a developer like Lionhead suddenly decide to relaunch the Fable forum, a little over a week prior to a reportedly game-stuffed Microsoft E3 conference? How very curious. It's almost as though the developer wants to build a little momentum ahead of an announcement of some hue.
Scenes include ethereal castles, jagged shorelines and molten lava pits.
Hot on the heels of the Dark Souls 2 release date leak comes leaked Dark Souls 2 concept art, which features a flaming spider suffering from hot heels.
Panic ensues after a curious Robotoki developer pushes the panic button.
In what's unlikely to be a particularly proud moment for the Los Angeles Post Department's finest, a 911 call over the weekend ended in a showdown with a life-sized statue of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's Simon 'Ghost' Riley.
Volition writer slams "petty", "political" Bethesda.
Award-nominated writer and designer Jason Blair has treated Bethesda to a full Twitter broadside over its handling of Human Head's Prey 2, which is rumoured to have been transferred to Dishonored developer Arkane Studios.
Billboard outside the LA Convention Centre gives the game away.
Thanks to a big old sign erected at the LA Convention Centre ahead of next week's E3 (thanks, Polygon), we can now narrow down Dark Souls 2's release date to sometime in March next year.
Major Nelson starts countdown clock.
If Microsoft's Xbox One reveal left you with the soul-shrivelling impression that the next generation Xbox is little more than a TV add-on, rest easy. There won't be so much as a whiff of TV at the manufacturer's E3 conference this year, which begins - oh, seven days, seven hours and 50 minutes from now.
Compare and contrast with GTA: San Andreas.
Lo, the internet giveth and the internet... giveth some more. We've already published a fan-made GTA 5 map, cobbled together with reference to early screenshots, but the one below is way better - it's made up of teaser snippets released by Rockstar.
"I absolutely look at us embracing and including those smaller experiences.".
Speaking to OXM shortly before we first laid eyes on Xbox One, Microsoft Studios corporate vice-president Phil Spencer has applauded Sony's handling of digitally distributed, smaller-scale games, and promised that Microsoft will deliver the way of Minecraft-style hits on its next generation hardware.
It's made out of the "blackest black creatable".
Any Fast Show lovers in the house? If you're familiar with the antiquated Britcom series, I bring glad tidings: Xbox One is made of black! Black! Black! The "blackest black creatable", in fact. Here's a video from Microsoft with more on the subject.
"There are a lot of plans in the works" for the sequel to Blacklist.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist won't be Sam Fisher's last hurrah, Ubisoft has confirmed - the company already has plans for a next generation console follow-up. Here's a question for the thread: how could a super-sneaky IP like this one make use of Xbox One's vaunted Kinect surveillance functions? Presumably, you'll spend an awful lot of time hiding behind the sofa.
They've doubled the damage on the SAW, those unholy monsters.
343 has released final-ish details of the forthcoming Halo 4 weapons balance patch, which hits Xbox Live on 3rd June. Was there really any need to beef up the SAW machinegun, chaps? That thing chews through Spartans like Aoife chews through comicbooks.
Just Cause developer sticks up for Microsoft's reveal strategy.
Avalanche Studios chief creative officer Christofer Sundberg reckons you're all being a load of over-judgemental nancies about Microsoft's Xbox One reveal, which went to town on broader entertainment features and connectivity at the expense, some would argue, of new game announcements. Microsoft's attempt to capture the hearts and minds of non-specialist media is not, he says, evidence that the manufacturer is no longer interested in videogames.
"Those games will continue to run on your Xbox 360 for as long as your Xbox 360 runs.".
Microsoft's Phil Spencer has confirmed that Xbox One's lack of backwards compatibility also extends to Xbox Live Arcade games, and advised Xbox 360 owners who've built up a healthy stockpile to keep hold of their current generation consoles.
"I'm the conductor of the poop train!".
D'awww. Psychos can feel love too, you know. In this touching (read: bonkers) story trailer for new utterly mad Borderlands 2 DLC character Krieg the Psycho, Gearbox sheds a little light on his conflicted inner monologue - suggesting he may be a little more complex than he first appears.
Crysis returning to its "spiritual roots," says Yerli.
Crack open a can of Lilt, Crysis fans, as after a long week of teasing Crytek has confirmed new Crysis 3 multiplayer DLC is indeed headed your way.
But Take-Two would prefer not to "punish" consumers.
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strass Zelnick doesn't think it necessary to "punish" consumers for purchasing second-hand games, arguing that "pushing up quality" and delivering robust DLC is a more effective way of persuading people to keep hold of the disc. That said, he's bang up for a share of Microsoft's rumoured Xbox One "pre-owned fee", assuming the scheme actually exists.
Get free unrestricted access to older titles.
Having scrapped online passes for all future content, EA has begun to make online pass and VIP content free on a selection of its Xbox 360 titles.
"It's not just Sony, it's everyone that we're trying to compete with.".
In further evidence that Microsoft intends to wreak commercial ruin upon companies other than its traditional console rivals, the company's Interactive Entertainment Business president Don Mattrick has named Apple, Google and Samsung as competitors for Xbox One.