You can inform spring is coming as a result of snowdrops, crocus, and daffodils are rising and the company rebrandings have begun. Microsoft yesterday announced that Xbox Game Studios is the brand new identify for his or her game-making division previously often called Microsoft Studios (previously often called Microsoft Game Studios (fka Microsoft Games)). Xbox Game Studios will nonetheless launch games on PC as Microsoft say “Xbox is our gaming brand across all devices, no matter how or where you want to play, or who you want to play with.” On today, we’re all Xbox. Not mega-exciting however hey, right here’s an fyi on the fka so you recognize wtf is up after we subsequent publish re Xbox Game Studios.
Xbox Game Studios at the moment contains 13 teams. That’s 343 Industries (the Halo lot), The Coalition (Gears Of War), The Initiative (a mysterious new studio), Mojang (who Microsoft name merely Minecraft?), Turn 10 Studios (Forza Motorsport), Playground Games (Forza Horizon), Rare (Sea Of Thieves as of late, I assume), the Global Publishing group, and up to date purchases Compulsion Games (We Happy Few), Undead Labs (State Of Decay), Ninja Theory (Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice), inXile Entertainment (Torment: Tides Of Numenera, Wasteland 2), and Obsidian Entertainment (Alpha Protocol, Fallout: New Vegas, the upcoming The Outer Worlds).
And they’re all making Xbox games. But that’s effective. Because we’re all Xbox. I’m each Xbox. It’s all in me.
