MICROSOFT ACQUIRES DEVELOPERS OF DYING LIGHT

Holy shit lol

>most evidence is saying Techland.
Only thing about this in the article is a list of possible polish studios that are rumoured to have been scouted by Microsoft, there's nothing else in the article suggesting it is Techland

It's a talented studio and it was mentioned by a reliable source in Poland like half a year ago that Microsoft were inquiring about several developers. Dying light 2 has been delayed indefinitely and they've also moved into a bigger studio within that time so there's some strong evidence of it being techland. Either that or asobo who are making the flight sim games.

somebody make a grim reaper image of all the developers ms has bought and ruined over the years

I dont think they will buy Techland lmao its second biggest developer in Poland also I know someone who works over there(hes combat designer i think thats important position in studio so I think he knows shit lol) and he never mentioned anything about buying out but he did said MS actually approached them to make a game for them but that was couple years ago about two years after Dying Light's release this leaded to MS's marketing right for DL2. They also recently opened new office cause they just went into full production of a brand new AAA title. Maybe that faggot lied to me or doesnt know anything about that but I doubt it he never lied and everything he said including stuff about certain games from other studios was true.

Eh, Playground Games was a good acquisition

>Either that or asobo who are making the flight sim games.
I can believe in Asobo, i remember reading that it was one of the studios that got a letter from Microsoft

>my dad works for Nintendo

Alright

Big big studios
Evolution studios
Guerilla cambridge
Incognito entertainment
Manchester studio
Studio liverpool
Zipper interactive
SOE Denver
SOE Tuscan
SOE Seattle

Oh wait sorry that's Sony.

Based

weird case of rent free

wtf do any of those studios make other than killflop and horizon ugly females

And obsidian. If they could make outer worlds on a shoe string budget then who knows what they could make with an almost unlimited budget from MS.

They dont make anything now because Sony gutted and closed all of them. You have the motorstorm devs there. What an injustice.

literally none of xbox's first party games are good you fucking faggot

What's wrong with State of Decay? My friends have been begging me to buy it or get Xbox Game Pass so I can play with them.

ESL Xbros really aren't having a good year again.

Forza Horizon 3 and 4 are arguably better than anything Sony put out and I'm idort. Gears 4 had goat multiplayer and horde overshadowed by the shit campaign.

It's good shit I got a good 90 hours out of it last year

Techland is worth ~1 billion USD

Playground games is the leader in its genre right now don't act stupid.

Based Phil killed off that many in a single year. :)

Microsoft has shown it multiple years in a row at E3 and it always takes up several minutes of everyone's time. It's basically just an excuse to take a quick bathroom break and replenish your snacks.

Have any of the studios Microsoft bought even announced anything not shovelware garbage? Let alone managed to actually put out a video game. I say this as a loser who owns an xbone.

I'll actually be a little mad if Xbox buys Techland because Dying Light was fantastic and Dying light 2 looks great too

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Hopefully MS wrangles them into making Gunslinger 2

I think there's a high chance its techland but maybe he doesn't know because it seems to be a well kept secret whichever dev it is. If its techland I'm sure only the owners would know. It would have been leaked by schreier by now if it was easy to obtain knowledge.

Why do they keep buying shitty studios?

I honestly never knew that Sony killed off any studios.
I never see anyone complain about it.

Since all the acquisitions are less than 2 years old then no, only game close to release is Bleeding Edge, everything else announced is years away (Hellblade 2, Everwild, Grounded)

>another forza
>queers of war
you trannies will buy anything

They've killed off more studios since ~04 than Microsoft has in their entire history.

Game Pass, notice they aren't going for big studios for the most part (only exceptions were Playground Games and Obsidian, but even then those two had speacial cirscunstances around), reason for that is they want these studios working on AA titles for the most part to keep a constant flow of new games coming to Game Pass

They make one game. If they aren't a leader in their genre then that's fucking embarrassing. Honestly even saying that they are is debatable.

I CAN'T BELIEVE TECHLAND ARE FUCKING DEAD

quality =/= quantity

Based

Name me one arcade racer out now that is even remotely close to forza horizon. I'm a car enthusiast (hell I'm a mechanical engineer specialising in automotive engineering too) and I've tried all these games from forza to the new NFS and the only legit good game that keeps me hooked every time I play is forza. The review scores back that up too.

When are they adquiring a japanese developer?

Please.

Obviously it's Asobo, they're doing MFS.

I thought Microsoft said they were done acquiring studios. They really dropped the ball though by letting Sony snatch Insomniac Games along with the sunset overdrive IP. Did they not learn from Bioware when EA snatch the Mass Effect IP from them?

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AA studios are just AAA studios working with less budget and time. All it takes is MS to buy a mid tier studio and giving them the funds and time to make AAA games.

It's not that hard desu.

Not in this decade, there's little to gain for a japanese developer to become part of Microsoft, and Microsoft knows that as well, that's why Microsoft prefers to focus on partnerships with jap developers

DL2 will still be multiplat. And thats all that matters. Whatever else they after isnt really relevant

>MS buys studio
>gives time lots of money and time to work on games
>release them on PC anyways

That's why im okay with MS buying studios and not Sony.

Its going to be People Can Fly. Techland is likely because the development of DL2 seems troubled and they have to keep updating 1 to get money

And what will it translate to? Probably nothing.

They're already in the market for an Asian studio. There are some suggestive rumors about both korean and japanese studios. Phil Spencer actually just came back from Japan again recently and he also said he thinks xbox games studios needs an asian developer. Doubt he'd say it if there wasn't some intention there. Also MS only has 14 studios right now and the article in OP says 16 but they assume xbox global publishing is being included in that so in theory they could have acquired 2 more studios and one could possibly be Asian. We won't know probably till their E3 livestream.

The reason Sunset overdrive got made was because MS agreed to let them own it. I thought the game was shit tho.

>not this decade
dude, the decade just started. Don't tell me you can plan 10 years in the future.

literally who

except for liverpool. shame on sony for that.

Evolution made motorstorm and driveclub

>driveclub
Deserved. What a shitshow.

This is some bizarro reality because anyone who has been posting here across this gen would remember the constant driveclub shill threads with bullshots from photomode. I guess the fanboys can't use it anymore.