Xbox July event thread

[Mcmasters]

A comment from the Reddit thread:


''We already knew that Xbox has their big show and E3 replacement in July since it is official information but it seems like Xbox wants to go all out with its transparency and show most of their stuff (if not all) that is currently in development.
A lot of speculation is going on that we, for example, see the Fable Reboot, which is still far away from Release (Xbox Insider Klobrille expects the Game to release Q1/Q2 2022). So we will probably also see other projects that are (very?) early in development.
We are obviously also going to see some (Big) Third Party Games there which adds to the excitement.
The Xbox Event in July will be their answer to Sony's big Event in June. Definitely interesting months ahead.''

I legit think thats why Microsoft went with these indie titles first instead of showing their 1st party games stable. They want to go head to head with Sony on 1st party titles (probably because their feeling pretty confident) but still wanted to give gamers a taste of whats to come with the Indies. Just my two cents...

 

[Rollins]

 

[karmakid]

July is like years away in this current environment and were just halfway through this month....who knows when the ps5 event is either :’(

 

[Rollins]

July is like years away in this current environment and were just halfway through this month....who knows when the ps5 event is either :’(

June 4th most likely. I expect the MS event to be very early in July as well.

 

[Kvally]

A comment from the Reddit thread:


''We already knew that Xbox has their big show and E3 replacement in July since it is official information but it seems like Xbox wants to go all out with its transparency and show most of their stuff (if not all) that is currently in development.
A lot of speculation is going on that we, for example, see the Fable Reboot, which is still far away from Release (Xbox Insider Klobrille expects the Game to release Q1/Q2 2022). So we will probably also see other projects that are (very?) early in development.
We are obviously also going to see some (Big) Third Party Games there which adds to the excitement.
The Xbox Event in July will be their answer to Sony's big Event in June. Definitely interesting months ahead.''

So rumor is they will show AAA games that are still 2 years out?

 

[karmakid]

So rumor is they will show AAA games that are still 2 years out?

wait, halo infinite got pushed to 2022? Here I thought the next Forza Motorsport was coming out this year...I’m ok if they push back horizon, they need Japan to look good.

 

[Kvally]

wait, halo infinite got pushed to 2022? Here I thought the next Forza Motorsport was coming out this year...I’m ok if they push back horizon, they need Japan to look good.

I was talking Fable and “other projects very early in development”.

 

[yankeessuck]

So rumor is they will show AAA games that are still 2 years out?

Is anyone really bothered by that if they do? I know people tried to make it an issue because Sony does it and console wars but I doubt there are many people that would rather not see Fable than see it even if its 2022.

 

[menace-uk-]

So rumor is they will show AAA games that are still 2 years out?

They have to. They have to show their ridiculous first party blight is over. They need to show quantity, quality, and diiversity.

 

[wshowers]

Not that this would happen but I would love for MS to sneak in an exclusive "AAA" 3rd party game into their July showing. Maybe Splinter Cell shows up ( in my dreams) or Deus Ex ( Again, in my dreams).

On the 1st party side, I'm looking forward to whatever The Initiative is working on.
Halo Infinite is going to have to really wow me cause the last 2 Halo games have been lackluster IMO.
I hope Playground is working on a new Fable and can at least show a teaser trailer.
Compulsion studio, I don't care for in the least.
Let Undead Studios show off State of Decay 3.
Show whatever RPG Obsidian is working on. (Alpha Protocol 2.... )
I don't think The Coalition is going to have much to show as they just shipped 2 games.
Turn 10: More Forza
Ninja Theory: More Hellblade thank you
Rare: Show the battletoads revival and everwild.

 

[Dtwice]

Not that this would happen but I would love for MS to sneak in an exclusive "AAA" 3rd party game into their July showing. Maybe Splinter Cell shows up ( in my dreams) or Deus Ex ( Again, in my dreams).

On the 1st party side, I'm looking forward to whatever The Initiative is working on.
Halo Infinite is going to have to really wow me cause the last 2 Halo games have been lackluster IMO.
I hope Playground is working on a new Fable and can at least show a teaser trailer.
Compulsion studio, I don't care for in the least.
Let Undead Studios show off State of Decay 3.
Show whatever RPG Obsidian is working on. (Alpha Protocol 2.... )
I don't think The Coalition is going to have much to show as they just shipped 2 games.
Turn 10: More Forza
Ninja Theory: More Hellblade thank you
Rare: Show the battletoads revival and everwild.

Splinter Cell would be great and with Michael Ironside back as Sam.

 

[Mcmasters]

Not that this would happen but I would love for MS to sneak in an exclusive "AAA" 3rd party game into their July showing. Maybe Splinter Cell shows up ( in my dreams) or Deus Ex ( Again, in my dreams).

On the 1st party side, I'm looking forward to whatever The Initiative is working on.
Halo Infinite is going to have to really wow me cause the last 2 Halo games have been lackluster IMO.
I hope Playground is working on a new Fable and can at least show a teaser trailer.
Compulsion studio, I don't care for in the least.
Let Undead Studios show off State of Decay 3.
Show whatever RPG Obsidian is working on. (Alpha Protocol 2.... )
I don't think The Coalition is going to have much to show as they just shipped 2 games.
Turn 10: More Forza
Ninja Theory: More Hellblade thank you
Rare: Show the battletoads revival and everwild.

Say one mo thing about Compulsion Games, here? ONE.MO.THANG!!

 

[menace-uk-]

Not that this would happen but I would love for MS to sneak in an exclusive "AAA" 3rd party game into their July showing. Maybe Splinter Cell shows up ( in my dreams) or Deus Ex ( Again, in my dreams).

On the 1st party side, I'm looking forward to whatever The Initiative is working on.
Halo Infinite is going to have to really wow me cause the last 2 Halo games have been lackluster IMO.
I hope Playground is working on a new Fable and can at least show a teaser trailer.
Compulsion studio, I don't care for in the least.
Let Undead Studios show off State of Decay 3.
Show whatever RPG Obsidian is working on. (Alpha Protocol 2.... )
I don't think The Coalition is going to have much to show as they just shipped 2 games.
Turn 10: More Forza
Ninja Theory: More Hellblade thank you
Rare: Show the battletoads revival and everwild.

I hope State Decay 3 really expands itself. There is so much they can do with it.

- I'd like to see harsh environment maps where Survival isn't just not getting ripped apart by a Juggurnaut.
- I'd like to see the crafting expanded. Both by what you can craft but also how crafting loot is distributed.
- I'd like to see Survivors develop very different combat styles, like Samurai, Barbarian, etc.
- I'd like the ability to build much larger communites and see these larger communities go to war if you choose.

 

[eVo7]

I hope State Decay 3 really expands itself. There is so much they can do with it.

- I'd like to see harsh environment maps where Survival isn't just not getting ripped apart by a Juggurnaut.
- I'd like to see the crafting expanded. Both by what you can craft but also how crafting loot is distributed.
- I'd like to see Survivors develop very different combat styles, like Samurai, Barbarian, etc.
- I'd like the ability to build much larger communites and see these larger communities go to war if you choose.

They have a great foundation in SoD2. Now since they are owned by MS they can expand on that. Remember SoD2 was a 30 dollar game at release.

 

[ZombiesRUCrazy]

I hope State Decay 3 really expands itself. There is so much they can do with it.

- I'd like to see harsh environment maps where Survival isn't just not getting ripped apart by a Juggurnaut.
- I'd like to see the crafting expanded. Both by what you can craft but also how crafting loot is distributed.
- I'd like to see Survivors develop very different combat styles, like Samurai, Barbarian, etc.
- I'd like the ability to build much larger communites and see these larger communities go to war if you choose.

did you play the Trumbull valley story driven campaign? The base you get there is freaking huge compared to all the other ones.

wish they had big ones like that one in the other maps.

 

[wshowers]

Say one mo thing about Compulsion Games, here? ONE.MO.THANG!!

I think everyone knows how I feel about Compulsion. A waste of money. But we'll see if giving them resources lets them craft better games.

I hope State Decay 3 really expands itself. There is so much they can do with it.

- I'd like to see harsh environment maps where Survival isn't just not getting ripped apart by a Juggurnaut.
- I'd like to see the crafting expanded. Both by what you can craft but also how crafting loot is distributed.
- I'd like to see Survivors develop very different combat styles, like Samurai, Barbarian, etc.
- I'd like the ability to build much larger communites and see these larger communities go to war if you choose.

Agreed to all.

 

[menace-uk-]

They have a great foundation in SoD2. Now since they are owned by MS they can expand on that. Remember SoD2 was a 30 dollar game at release.

The Juggurnaut ediition is great.

I'm wondering if under MS they might have have the resources to turn it into an MMo, that was their original vision.

 

[menace-uk-]

did you play the Trumbull valley story driven campaign? The base you get there is freaking huge compared to all the other ones.

wish they had big ones like that one in the other maps.

The SOD 2 DLC? No. I thought it was just SOD1.

 

[ZombiesRUCrazy]

The SOD 2 DLC? No. I thought it was just SOD1.

Ya SoD2 dlc

 

[GordoSan]

Because I’m lazy!

AND because I’m 99.3% sure that’s going to be the Lockhart reveal, which we already sort of have a thread for....started by some weirdo here.

I hope they don't waste a whole month's presentation on Lockhart.

 

[Rollins]

I didn’t know where to put this, but it might be the longest set of rumors I’ve ever seen. But it’s from Reddit, so who knows.


#319

Save and Forget (Microsoft/Various "Internal" Rumors)


-I have a couple of friends that work in the industry and people are ravenous for news and you all seem like a fun bunch, so I thought I'd share a few things they've shared. Just save this and revisit it in August.

-Throwaway because there's work stuff on my main Reddit account.

-I work on the very edge of the industry, so it's mainly stuff I've heard from friends that are a little more in the know.

-I work for a company that is tied to Microsoft at the hip, so most of my information is for Xbox stuff.

-Halo is on track for release this year, as of now, but Microsoft/343 are being super tight-lipped about it. They're weirdly confident that it's going to come together, despite some issues that came up during development.

-One thing that has "gotten out" is they apparently have spent significant time reworking Forge mode and the whispers internally are that you'll be able to create combat "scenarios" for others to play with goals.

-They apparently used Mario Maker as a template and have a wide-range of "clear conditions" like time trials, defeating all enemies, and things like score attack (where you complete as many conditions as you can in a set amount of time).

-Playground is making Fable and The Initiative is making Perfect Dark. It's a done deal. Apparently, the Perfect Dark stuff was kind of in place when The Initiative was created.

-Microsoft sees Joanna Dark as a "face of the brand" character and they want her to exist alongside Master Chief.

-They're not locked into Perfect Dark forever. There's already talk about breaking off a few members of the already small team to explore other projects.

-They're taking advantage of the contract/temporary developer environment that exists in Southern California that other studios use.

-I have not heard anything about Fable. Not a single peep.

-Microsoft apparently has two studios that are either done deals or are agreed in principle. The internal rumor is Poland and an Asian studio.

-One of my friends said he heard The Farm 51 is the Polish studio, but he heard it from someone who wasn't really in a position to know, so shrug.

-No word on the Asia studio, if that's true, but that's not unusual because a newly formed team in Asia is handling that process.

-The internal talk about an Asian studio has also carried a caveat that it's been close a few times, but never really hit the finish line, but apparently is done or at least as close as it has ever been.

-I wish I knew more on that, because it's obviously a juicy tidbit, but that's partially why there's a lot of buzz around it.

-The Asia acquition is not Sega. Everyone internally is pretty confident about that, because in the first half of last year I heard about a Sega/Xbox partnership starting with PSO2.

-I honestly didn't believe it at the time, but as you know, PSO2 showed up on Xbox's E3 stage last year.

-The rumor was there was three other elements to the "partnership" but no one's really sure what they are.

-There's also an internal rumor that one of the three elements is an exclusive game from a "legendary" franchise, but again, that rumor came from someone who wasn't really in a position to know.

-Another weird thing going around internally: Compulsion has two projects in development, one that was originally kicked around during the days of a short lived internal studio called Microsoft Games Studios Victoria.

-They apparently nabbed one of the people from that studio (Microsoft Game Studios Victoria) to come over to Compulsion, as he was kind of the primary visionary on that initial pitch.

-Another weird one: Xbox Game Studios may be working on a sports game. They've been working with two basketball players named Ja (lol. Not Ja Rule. I asked) and Zion. I don't know much about basketball, but their names are so distinct, I actually remembered them. I have Googled them and they're real people.

-There was a little more attached to this one. Microsoft is kind of trying to enter the same space as Rocket League with an approachable sports game.

-Matt Booty from XGS has a history of working on sports stuff at Midway and it's kind of been identified by him as an "area of opporunity."

-One of my sources said this stuff pretty confidently, but another one said they thought they were just doing commercials for GamePass.

-That being said, if such a commercial exists, it hasn't aired yet. That being said, they're not playing basketball because of the pandemic. shrugs

-Again, not much to say about Rare, because they're not based in the US, but I have heard they have FIVE projects in development.

-One is Battletoads (which I've heard is getting a serious re-work after getting a negative reaction), one is Sea of Thieves, one is Everwild, so that leaves two projects unaccounted for.

-Gears story DLC is coming.

-I'm not sure what's going on with the Coalition since Rod left. Based on the traditional hiring process, it doesn't seem like they've even attempted to find a replacement yet. shrugs

-Obsidian's XGS transition is apparently going amazingly. Obsidian's unannounced RPG is shaping up great and they're confident it's going to bring the house down when announced.

-It originally wasn't going to be announced this year, but that plan has since changed.

-Things are going so well on that game that Microsoft is fast-tracking The Outer Worlds 2 and they're adding a ton of people to that team, although that plan has been delayed a bit because of the pandemic.

-I've heard the long-term goal is two AAA teams for TOW and this new franchise (I've been told it's not Pillars of Eternity).

-There's also one unannounced smaller project and Grounded.

-There's some question if those smaller projects will continue if Obsidian goes "full fat" with two AAA RPG teams.

-Obviously, Grounded will still come out and get finished, but it's unclear if they'll do more small projects or those teams will get folded into the AAA teams.

-I've also heard good things about inXile. I've heard nothing about their new major project other than the pitch was really unique.

-They have two smaller projects in development, in addition to Wasteland 3, but I've heard one will probably get shelved.

-The other is a battle royale that was originally designed for VR, but is now non-VR as well to exist on the Xbox family of devices.

-Ninja Theory is also pretty minimal, but like the Rare project count, Ninja Theory's active project count is FOUR.

-One is Bleeding Edge, one is Hellblade 2, one is Project Mara, so they have one unannounced game, but don't get too excited. It could be a contract job from their pre-acquisition days.

-I have heard things aren't going well at Turn 10, but when I pressed the person that was telling me about it, they gave me a weird look and wouldn't elaborate.

-In terms of non-Microsoft stuff, I've heard that Ready at Dawn has a Playstation exclusive locked and loaded.

-I've also heard that there may be more restructuring going on at Blizzard soon.

-One more weird one: I heard that Retro had FOUR games (that were in various state of development) cancelled between the release of Tropical Freeze and them beginning work on Metroid Prime 4.

-I will try to clarify anything as best as I can if people are confused.

 

[menace-uk-]

I didn’t know where to put this, but it might be the longest set of rumors I’ve ever seen. But it’s from Reddit, so who knows.


#319

Save and Forget (Microsoft/Various "Internal" Rumors)


-I have a couple of friends that work in the industry and people are ravenous for news and you all seem like a fun bunch, so I thought I'd share a few things they've shared. Just save this and revisit it in August.

-Throwaway because there's work stuff on my main Reddit account.

-I work on the very edge of the industry, so it's mainly stuff I've heard from friends that are a little more in the know.

-I work for a company that is tied to Microsoft at the hip, so most of my information is for Xbox stuff.

-Halo is on track for release this year, as of now, but Microsoft/343 are being super tight-lipped about it. They're weirdly confident that it's going to come together, despite some issues that came up during development.

-One thing that has "gotten out" is they apparently have spent significant time reworking Forge mode and the whispers internally are that you'll be able to create combat "scenarios" for others to play with goals.

-They apparently used Mario Maker as a template and have a wide-range of "clear conditions" like time trials, defeating all enemies, and things like score attack (where you complete as many conditions as you can in a set amount of time).

-Playground is making Fable and The Initiative is making Perfect Dark. It's a done deal. Apparently, the Perfect Dark stuff was kind of in place when The Initiative was created.

-Microsoft sees Joanna Dark as a "face of the brand" character and they want her to exist alongside Master Chief.

-They're not locked into Perfect Dark forever. There's already talk about breaking off a few members of the already small team to explore other projects.

-They're taking advantage of the contract/temporary developer environment that exists in Southern California that other studios use.

-I have not heard anything about Fable. Not a single peep.

-Microsoft apparently has two studios that are either done deals or are agreed in principle. The internal rumor is Poland and an Asian studio.

-One of my friends said he heard The Farm 51 is the Polish studio, but he heard it from someone who wasn't really in a position to know, so shrug.

-No word on the Asia studio, if that's true, but that's not unusual because a newly formed team in Asia is handling that process.

-The internal talk about an Asian studio has also carried a caveat that it's been close a few times, but never really hit the finish line, but apparently is done or at least as close as it has ever been.

-I wish I knew more on that, because it's obviously a juicy tidbit, but that's partially why there's a lot of buzz around it.

-The Asia acquition is not Sega. Everyone internally is pretty confident about that, because in the first half of last year I heard about a Sega/Xbox partnership starting with PSO2.

-I honestly didn't believe it at the time, but as you know, PSO2 showed up on Xbox's E3 stage last year.

-The rumor was there was three other elements to the "partnership" but no one's really sure what they are.

-There's also an internal rumor that one of the three elements is an exclusive game from a "legendary" franchise, but again, that rumor came from someone who wasn't really in a position to know.

-Another weird thing going around internally: Compulsion has two projects in development, one that was originally kicked around during the days of a short lived internal studio called Microsoft Games Studios Victoria.

-They apparently nabbed one of the people from that studio (Microsoft Game Studios Victoria) to come over to Compulsion, as he was kind of the primary visionary on that initial pitch.

-Another weird one: Xbox Game Studios may be working on a sports game. They've been working with two basketball players named Ja (lol. Not Ja Rule. I asked) and Zion. I don't know much about basketball, but their names are so distinct, I actually remembered them. I have Googled them and they're real people.

-There was a little more attached to this one. Microsoft is kind of trying to enter the same space as Rocket League with an approachable sports game.

-Matt Booty from XGS has a history of working on sports stuff at Midway and it's kind of been identified by him as an "area of opporunity."

-One of my sources said this stuff pretty confidently, but another one said they thought they were just doing commercials for GamePass.

-That being said, if such a commercial exists, it hasn't aired yet. That being said, they're not playing basketball because of the pandemic. shrugs

-Again, not much to say about Rare, because they're not based in the US, but I have heard they have FIVE projects in development.

-One is Battletoads (which I've heard is getting a serious re-work after getting a negative reaction), one is Sea of Thieves, one is Everwild, so that leaves two projects unaccounted for.

-Gears story DLC is coming.

-I'm not sure what's going on with the Coalition since Rod left. Based on the traditional hiring process, it doesn't seem like they've even attempted to find a replacement yet. shrugs

-Obsidian's XGS transition is apparently going amazingly. Obsidian's unannounced RPG is shaping up great and they're confident it's going to bring the house down when announced.

-It originally wasn't going to be announced this year, but that plan has since changed.

-Things are going so well on that game that Microsoft is fast-tracking The Outer Worlds 2 and they're adding a ton of people to that team, although that plan has been delayed a bit because of the pandemic.

-I've heard the long-term goal is two AAA teams for TOW and this new franchise (I've been told it's not Pillars of Eternity).

-There's also one unannounced smaller project and Grounded.

-There's some question if those smaller projects will continue if Obsidian goes "full fat" with two AAA RPG teams.

-Obviously, Grounded will still come out and get finished, but it's unclear if they'll do more small projects or those teams will get folded into the AAA teams.

-I've also heard good things about inXile. I've heard nothing about their new major project other than the pitch was really unique.

-They have two smaller projects in development, in addition to Wasteland 3, but I've heard one will probably get shelved.

-The other is a battle royale that was originally designed for VR, but is now non-VR as well to exist on the Xbox family of devices.

-Ninja Theory is also pretty minimal, but like the Rare project count, Ninja Theory's active project count is FOUR.

-One is Bleeding Edge, one is Hellblade 2, one is Project Mara, so they have one unannounced game, but don't get too excited. It could be a contract job from their pre-acquisition days.

-I have heard things aren't going well at Turn 10, but when I pressed the person that was telling me about it, they gave me a weird look and wouldn't elaborate.

-In terms of non-Microsoft stuff, I've heard that Ready at Dawn has a Playstation exclusive locked and loaded.

-I've also heard that there may be more restructuring going on at Blizzard soon.

-One more weird one: I heard that Retro had FOUR games (that were in various state of development) cancelled between the release of Tropical Freeze and them beginning work on Metroid Prime 4.

-I will try to clarify anything as best as I can if people are confused.

So, this is what the MGS slate looks like.

Ninja Theory - Hellblade 2.
Playground games - Fable.
343 Industries - Halo Infinite.
Turn 10 - Forza 8
The Coalition - Gears content.
The Initiative - Perfect Dark.
Inxile - Wasteland 3
Double fine - Psychonauts 2.
Minecraft - Dungeons.
Rare - Everwild


Obsidian - Unanouced new IP.
Compulsion Games - Nothing.
Undead labs - Nothing.

Looking a bit sparse on the AAA new IP front going into the first couple of years

 

[Kvally]

I didn’t know where to put this, but it might be the longest set of rumors I’ve ever seen. But it’s from Reddit, so who knows.


#319

Save and Forget (Microsoft/Various "Internal" Rumors)


-I have a couple of friends that work in the industry and people are ravenous for news and you all seem like a fun bunch, so I thought I'd share a few things they've shared. Just save this and revisit it in August.

-Throwaway because there's work stuff on my main Reddit account.

-I work on the very edge of the industry, so it's mainly stuff I've heard from friends that are a little more in the know.

-I work for a company that is tied to Microsoft at the hip, so most of my information is for Xbox stuff.

-Halo is on track for release this year, as of now, but Microsoft/343 are being super tight-lipped about it. They're weirdly confident that it's going to come together, despite some issues that came up during development.

-One thing that has "gotten out" is they apparently have spent significant time reworking Forge mode and the whispers internally are that you'll be able to create combat "scenarios" for others to play with goals.

-They apparently used Mario Maker as a template and have a wide-range of "clear conditions" like time trials, defeating all enemies, and things like score attack (where you complete as many conditions as you can in a set amount of time).

-Playground is making Fable and The Initiative is making Perfect Dark. It's a done deal. Apparently, the Perfect Dark stuff was kind of in place when The Initiative was created.

-Microsoft sees Joanna Dark as a "face of the brand" character and they want her to exist alongside Master Chief.

-They're not locked into Perfect Dark forever. There's already talk about breaking off a few members of the already small team to explore other projects.

-They're taking advantage of the contract/temporary developer environment that exists in Southern California that other studios use.

-I have not heard anything about Fable. Not a single peep.

-Microsoft apparently has two studios that are either done deals or are agreed in principle. The internal rumor is Poland and an Asian studio.

-One of my friends said he heard The Farm 51 is the Polish studio, but he heard it from someone who wasn't really in a position to know, so shrug.

-No word on the Asia studio, if that's true, but that's not unusual because a newly formed team in Asia is handling that process.

-The internal talk about an Asian studio has also carried a caveat that it's been close a few times, but never really hit the finish line, but apparently is done or at least as close as it has ever been.

-I wish I knew more on that, because it's obviously a juicy tidbit, but that's partially why there's a lot of buzz around it.

-The Asia acquition is not Sega. Everyone internally is pretty confident about that, because in the first half of last year I heard about a Sega/Xbox partnership starting with PSO2.

-I honestly didn't believe it at the time, but as you know, PSO2 showed up on Xbox's E3 stage last year.

-The rumor was there was three other elements to the "partnership" but no one's really sure what they are.

-There's also an internal rumor that one of the three elements is an exclusive game from a "legendary" franchise, but again, that rumor came from someone who wasn't really in a position to know.

-Another weird thing going around internally: Compulsion has two projects in development, one that was originally kicked around during the days of a short lived internal studio called Microsoft Games Studios Victoria.

-They apparently nabbed one of the people from that studio (Microsoft Game Studios Victoria) to come over to Compulsion, as he was kind of the primary visionary on that initial pitch.

-Another weird one: Xbox Game Studios may be working on a sports game. They've been working with two basketball players named Ja (lol. Not Ja Rule. I asked) and Zion. I don't know much about basketball, but their names are so distinct, I actually remembered them. I have Googled them and they're real people.

-There was a little more attached to this one. Microsoft is kind of trying to enter the same space as Rocket League with an approachable sports game.

-Matt Booty from XGS has a history of working on sports stuff at Midway and it's kind of been identified by him as an "area of opporunity."

-One of my sources said this stuff pretty confidently, but another one said they thought they were just doing commercials for GamePass.

-That being said, if such a commercial exists, it hasn't aired yet. That being said, they're not playing basketball because of the pandemic. shrugs

-Again, not much to say about Rare, because they're not based in the US, but I have heard they have FIVE projects in development.

-One is Battletoads (which I've heard is getting a serious re-work after getting a negative reaction), one is Sea of Thieves, one is Everwild, so that leaves two projects unaccounted for.

-Gears story DLC is coming.

-I'm not sure what's going on with the Coalition since Rod left. Based on the traditional hiring process, it doesn't seem like they've even attempted to find a replacement yet. shrugs

-Obsidian's XGS transition is apparently going amazingly. Obsidian's unannounced RPG is shaping up great and they're confident it's going to bring the house down when announced.

-It originally wasn't going to be announced this year, but that plan has since changed.

-Things are going so well on that game that Microsoft is fast-tracking The Outer Worlds 2 and they're adding a ton of people to that team, although that plan has been delayed a bit because of the pandemic.

-I've heard the long-term goal is two AAA teams for TOW and this new franchise (I've been told it's not Pillars of Eternity).

-There's also one unannounced smaller project and Grounded.

-There's some question if those smaller projects will continue if Obsidian goes "full fat" with two AAA RPG teams.

-Obviously, Grounded will still come out and get finished, but it's unclear if they'll do more small projects or those teams will get folded into the AAA teams.

-I've also heard good things about inXile. I've heard nothing about their new major project other than the pitch was really unique.

-They have two smaller projects in development, in addition to Wasteland 3, but I've heard one will probably get shelved.

-The other is a battle royale that was originally designed for VR, but is now non-VR as well to exist on the Xbox family of devices.

-Ninja Theory is also pretty minimal, but like the Rare project count, Ninja Theory's active project count is FOUR.

-One is Bleeding Edge, one is Hellblade 2, one is Project Mara, so they have one unannounced game, but don't get too excited. It could be a contract job from their pre-acquisition days.

-I have heard things aren't going well at Turn 10, but when I pressed the person that was telling me about it, they gave me a weird look and wouldn't elaborate.

-In terms of non-Microsoft stuff, I've heard that Ready at Dawn has a Playstation exclusive locked and loaded.

-I've also heard that there may be more restructuring going on at Blizzard soon.

-One more weird one: I heard that Retro had FOUR games (that were in various state of development) cancelled between the release of Tropical Freeze and them beginning work on Metroid Prime 4.

-I will try to clarify anything as best as I can if people are confused.

I don’t believe it

 

[Edge BC]

Looking a bit sparse on the AAA new IP front going into the first couple of years

This is why I'd rather have them continue with aqcuisitions instead of slowing down. It takes time for big projects to be realized or to build up new or smaller studios.

Might as well get some more studios on your team now, instead of waiting till next year, to have it pay off 4/ 5 years later.

 

[Dtwice]

So, this is what the MGS slate looks like.

Ninja Theory - Hellblade 2.
Playground games - Fable.
343 Industries - Halo Infinite.
Turn 10 - Forza 8
The Coalition - Gears content.
The Initiative - Perfect Dark.
Inxile - Wasteland 3
Double fine - Psychonauts 2.
Minecraft - Dungeons.


Obsidian - Unanouced new IP.
Compulsion Games - Nothing.
Undead labs - Nothing.

Looking a bit sparse on the AAA new IP front going into the first couple of years

Well people wanted their Perfect Dark and Fable. I was hoping for something new from The Initiative with all that talent they picked up but oh well.

 

[Pureshooter]

I am sure everyone is gonna get their hopes up, expect that mic drop moment after moment, and then watch it and say "what a s*** show", and still buy an Xbox Series X.

You need to get an MRI, because you've just seen the future.

 

[Rollins]

Looks like Sony might have added an August event, so unless MS adds something later, the July event needs to be something special.

 

[Mcmasters]

Looks like Sony might have added an August event, so unless MS adds something later, the July event needs to be something special.

Sounds like MS and Sony having a legit showdown these days! Its going down, fellas. Good for all gamers.

 

[Edge BC]

Looks like Sony might have added an August event, so unless MS adds something later, the July event needs to be something special.

All Xbox needs to do is treat this like a mini version of the 2018 E3 conference. If they want to try out a new format...well..let's just say now is not the time for team Xbox to be overly creative. They don't need Major Nelson for this either. No (online) celebrities, just Phil, Matt Booty and representatives from XGS and 3rd party studios.

 

[Kvally]

I like Major Nelson