"The plan is each year you'll see one to two new IP from us coming out".
EA labels boss Frank Gibeau has told CVG in an interview that the company plans to release "one to two" new IPs on next-gen consoles every year, but only after it takes a bit of time to successfully transition its existing franchises to the next generation platforms.
Multiple new titles likely after Kinect Sports Rivals.
Rare has plenty of ideas about how to get its classic game brands on Xbox One, the studio's Simon Woodroffe told us at Gamescom, and it's likely that the studio will start work on multiple new titles once it releases Kinect Sports Rivals early next year.
"There is never a perfect time for this type of transition".
Urgh. Fresh off a plane from Germany and straight into the office, and my brain is having trouble keeping up with my keyboard. How does this whole news story thing go again? Ah yes - how's this: Microsoft has just announced that its CEO Steve Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months.
Dead Rising creator not convinced by Xbox One's zombie exclusive.
Keiji Inafune is a man who probably gets sick of being introduced as "Mega Man Creator", but that's his fault for creating the guy. He's currently working on Yaiba, a colourful offshoot of Ninja Gaiden, but one of his greatest gifts to the Xbox 360 was Dead Rising.
It's great that next gen platforms aren't "typical" upgrades, says senior producer.
Volition's Saints Row 4 is out in the UK today, and if you've read our review, you'll know it's an utter hoot. The developer has yet to announce what it's up to next, but senior producer Jim Boone was prepared to discuss some broad possibilities for Xbox One and PS4 when I caught up with him at a hands-on last month.
Titanfall! Assassin's Creed 4! Project Spark! FIFA! Pretty much everything!.
Stop what you're doing and watch the below right this instant - it's Microsoft's live Xbox One show at Gamescom. Aoife's on the floor, chewing the fat with Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, Graeme "AceyBongos" Boyd and all manner of Xbox One developer. They are talking about videogames, lots of videogames. As of the time of writing, the topic is Titanfall. See, I told you it was worth it.
"All of the people on stage, myself included, that's just part of a show," says Spencer.
Microsoft had a rough-and-tumble E3 this year, its strong Xbox One games line-up overshadowed by the console's controversial online DRM policies, which were openly mocked by rival Sony during the latter's opening presser. It wasn't the same story at Gamescom this week - the policies in question have now been dropped - but the Boys in Blue found time nonetheless to poke fun at Microsoft's "shifting message". Studios head Phil Spencer believes all that won't amount to much when the Xbox One actually goes on sale, however.
Plus, control your entire home entertainment setup using Kinect.
Xbox One's work-in-progress dashboard might currently resemble a slab of greenish basalt with Post-It notes stuck to it, but don't be afraid - the new interface is a regular hotbed of innovation. A few new dash details have surfaced care of various Gamescom write-ups. Have a browse.
Buy booster packs, get random sets of loot.
Ryse: Son of Rome supports microtransactions in multiplayer, allowing players to pay a little extra for randomised Bronze, Silver and Gold armour sets in order to shortcut progression. These packs can also, however, be earned simply by grinding for in-game gold, and you'll pay a smaller fee to unlock one if you've churned out a bunch of gold already.
"It's a platform that we love and that a lot of people love our game on.".
The announcement of EA and PopCap's Peggle 2 as a timed Xbox One launch exclusive took many by surprise - it's hard to imagine a game that's got less in common with the shooters, licensed sports sims and RPGs that comprise the Xbox 360's headline releases. Still, the numbers paint a convincing picture - released in 2009, the Xbox Live Arcade version of the original, physics-driven puzzler still puts in regular appearances on the Xbox Live Arcade top 20.
"If you look to our heritage, and what we did with XBLIG...".
Microsoft's ID@Xbox program - which allows registered developers to publish their own work on Xbox One - has been on the table since Microsoft began work on the new console, program director Chris Charla has told OXM. It isn't, in other words, a reaction to the movements of any (cough) competing manufacturers.
"We have access to everything that was done during the LucasArts era.".
DICE wants to pull off a full-scale, Batman: Arkham Asylum-style franchise turnaround with Star Wars: Battlefront, EA's games label boss Patrick Soderlund has told Polygon, and has access to the Battlefront 3 prototypes created at Free Radical before the latter went bust.
Next gen consoles a vital prerequisite of Faith's return to screens.
EA has put a lid on talk that Mirror's Edge 2 might - whisper it - show up on current generation machines at some point. This is technically possible, the publisher has conceded, but achieving it would involve too many "compromises" to the concept and design.
"It's been going for a long time," says David Rutter.
Microsoft and EA's decision to give away a digital copy of FIFA 14 free with every Xbox One preorder in Europe has been styled a reaction to upset in the wake of E3, when the console's price tag was unveiled. It's not, or so says executive producer David Rutter.
Konami HD Collections undergo mass slash attack.
In all the excitement over Gamescom I clean forgot to write up this week's Deals of the Week, which are all about Konami. The publisher's Metal Gear Solid, Zone of the Enders and Silent Hill HD Collections are the most sensational casualties, along with sturdy spin-off Silent Hill: Downpour and the used-to-be-portable Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
The rogue's gallery continues to spew forth riches.
Aoife! AOIFE. The Warner Bros people have released some sort of comicbook news again and I don't know what's going on. AOIFE, WHERE ARE YOU? Oh wait, she's at Gamescom. Daggnabit. OK, how is this supposed to go? Ah yes: Warner Bros has released some new Batman: Arkham Origins screenshots and a trailer, in which there are characters who doubtless correspond to characters in a Batman comic somewhere.
Ivory Tower and Reflections' open world racer discussed in depth.
I look upon racing games much as I do real-life cars - that's to say, I find them compellingly shiny but I don't have the first idea how to handle one. Ubisoft's Julian Gerighty does, though.
"You can enjoy all of the game's content in a single player experience.".
My heart! It appears to have been gladdened. Lionhead has released a bunch of new info on Fable Legends, the latest Xbox One exclusive to join the ranks, revealing that while it's best enjoyed with other people, you can play by yourself if you like.
Fable for Xbox One is "the near-exclusive focus of our studio and its development staff".
Lionhead has posed and dodged the question of a Fable Legends release date, stating merely that beta-testing for the Xbox One exclusive will begin in 2014. The studio has also hinted at a number of "additional projects in incubation and experimentation", but insists that Fable Legends is "the near exclusive focus of our studio and its development staff".
"We see a lot of this online. It's not coming to PS4 or PC.".
A quick update from Gamescom, where Jonty is labouring to persuade developers to tell him literally everything about everything pertaining to Xbox One. A Capcom show representative has reasserted Dead Rising 3's Xbox One-only status, in the face of claims that it's going to gravitate elsewhere after debuting on Microsoft's console.
