"Great games work no matter what platform you're on".
Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, recently spoke out over the multiple server issues the company has faced over the last year with Battlefield 4 and Titanfall, and how the industry is looking towards the future with the advent of the next gen consoles.
No sign of the promised private lobbies just yet though.
Developer Respawn began rolling out a new patch for Titanfall over the weekend, addressing a host of minor fixes and tweaks here and there. Unfortunately there are none of the promised big additions to game just yet - like private lobbies or support for the soon to be released companion app.
Varric and co fighting dragons, exploring new areas and more.
Happy Monday all. The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting, and new Dragon Age: Inquisition screens have surfaced online.
"No way you can guess this one!".
Project Spark - the sandbox game creation suite has been a rip-roaring success for Xbox One with literally tens of thousands of worlds created and shared among the community. But it seems Project Dakota might still have some more surprises up their sleeve if a tweet from creative director Michael Saxs Persson is anything to go by.
"What we're really trying to do is just lower the friction for developers as much as humanly possible.".
The ID@Xbox program has been the major Xbox related focus of this year's Games Developers Conference, with twenty-five new developers announced for the scheme. However, Microsoft don't intend to stop there, confirming that the ability to allow budding developers to use retail Xbox Ones to self publish is still in the pipeline.
"We got very good at keeping secrets, but I don't think we enjoyed the process.".
Much of the gaming world was shocked last month when it was announced that Irrational Games was to effectively shutter down to a skeleton crew after the release of the final piece of Bioshock Infinite DLC - Burial at Sea Part 2. Now head honcho Ken Levine has been talking a little about the motivations behind the decision and the type of games he wants to make with the new smaller Irrational Games.
Xbox One issues resolved, two maps temporarily taken out of rotation on Xbox 360.
It's been quite the busy couple of days for patches for games under the EA banner, no? Earlier on today we had Titanfall fixes and now we're hearing issues with the recent more family-friendly Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare are being tackled over at Popcap.
Get console and Titanfall #163;359 in the UK and $450 in the US.
After some Xbox One shaped bargains you say? Yes you! Right this way then, as several major retailers in both the US and the UK have this week got some rather good deals on the console including a game thrown in the bundle to sweeten the deal.
"We are already over our 90 minute time limit and having to move stuff out of show.".
The big hullaboo of E3 draws ever nearer and as everyone eagerly awaits another year's worth of announcements for the big event, we're starting to get some idea of Microsoft's presence at the annual expo.
Balance and bugfixes to tweak tempramental Titans.
How's your Titan getting along? Have you remembered to feed it, take it for walks and given it plenty of fresh air? Remember, a Titan is for life, and not just for last week. To help keep your Titan's coat looking healthy and shiny, Respawn has released the first post-launch Titanfall update which should be going live right about now.
Secret journal revealed for Limited Edition version of the game in Europe.
It's not easy being dead. Especially if you're Ronan O'Connor, the recently-deceased protagonist of the upcoming spooky adventure Murdered: Soul Suspect. While in the middle of solving your own grisly murder, you'll also have to investigate the supernatural occurrences that have been plaguing the town of Salem.
Pack your trunks, we're headed to the mountains.
Sources close to Eurogamer have claimed that Far Cry 4 will be set in the Himalayas and - get this - feature rideable elephants.
"At the time, we were not confident in our ability to create a talking character".
It's hard to imagine a world where Bioshock's Elizabeth was seen but not heard, but according to Irrational's Shawn Robertson, speaking at a GDC talk this week, that was very nearly a (non-alternate) reality.
"I can only say we're trying to land it.
Microsoft creative director Adam Isgreen is still hopeful that he'll be able to get Killer Instinct's long awaited Story Mode update out the door for a promised March release date. That's despite the fact that the clock is ticking and there aren't that many days left in March. Godspeed, buddy.
die developers working on the ID@Xbox program than the entire 360's lifespan.
Phil Harrison, corporate vice president of Microsoft EMEA, is feeling pretty good about the future. Not only has Titanfall done quite well, but just this week Microsoft announced the addition of 25 indie titles to the Xbox One's upcoming game releases.
Microsoft whisks the wrappers.
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its DirectX graphics software at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, as promised. During the event, Turn 10 software architect Chris Tector screened a video of a limited port of Forza Motorsport 5, which has been converted to showcase DirectX12's capabilities.
Xbox One's next campaign shooter isn't just about carnage.
Bethesda has released a new trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Order, in which practically nobody is shot in the face. You do get laughed at by a scary Nazi lady, though. Power down those adrenal glands and give it a watch.
Emeralds! Wither Paintings! Poisonous potatoes! Carrot on a Stick!.
Be ecstatic, ye delvers into the Earth's fecund darkness, for the latest Minecraft Xbox 360 update will soon be upon us. 4J Studios has released a change log for title update 14, which has now been sent to Microsoft for testing.
New API to "squeeze every last drop of performance" out of the console.
There are just three hours and pocket change to go till Microsoft's DirectX 12 presser at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - it'll kick off at 10am PDT, or 5pm London time and 4am in Sydney. The new version of Microsoft's age-old graphics application programming interface is tipped to appear on Xbox One as well as PCs, tablets and phones. Care to speculate on what the practical consequences might be?
