Disney has announced that award-winning video game composer Inon Zur will be contributing to Disney Fantastia: Music Evolved. The news was revealed at Disney’s D23 fan event before Zur took to the stage to conduct some of the orchestral pieces that are set to appear in the ground-breaking music-motion game. Zur’s contributions include a large number of original orchestral pieces, but he also had a...
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Microsoft was wrong to listen to fans complaints about the proposed Xbox One DRM and always-online policies according to Jesse Schell, a prominent game designer. Microsoft had originally announced that the Xbox One would need to always be connected to the internet in order to play games, and that the system would not support pre-owned games, with second-hand buyers having to pay a fee to Microsoft...
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F.C. Barcelona Signs Exclusive Deal With EA Sports Electronic Arts and F.C. Barcelona today announced they have agreed to a three-year partnership that will make EA Sports the Exclusive and Official Video Game Partner of one of the most popular and storied football clubs in the world. Matt Bilbey, Senior Vice President and Group General Manager of EA Sports, had this to say, “Joining a world class...
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Xbox One Self Publishing? In recent weeks, Microsoft have been reversing a lot of their policies – including dropping the fees for playing used games, removing its DRM (Always-Online) requirements and now Microsoft are not only allowing Indie Developers to self-publish games, they are also saying that each and every Xbox One console can be used for development – much like the Playstati...
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With Microsoft failing to recognize the smaller studios and indie developers at there rightful business level, Lorne Lanning the co-found of Oddworld Inhabitant said “it doesn’t seem like any of the little guys are on the radar”. When VG247 talked to Lanning about Microsofts bad approach to indie developers on the Xbox One he brought up their problems with releasing Oddworld: Str...
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Early today it was reported by Fusible that Microsoft was victorious in its bid to obtain the domains after it had made a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum in May. Microsoft was supported in the inquiring of these domains by The Richard Law Group, who has also helped Microsoft take control of XboxPhone.com with XboxTablet.com last year. It was also noted by Fusible that Microsoft has n...
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Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft For Zynga In rather surprising news, Zynga has confirmed that Don Mattrick is no longer Microsoft’s head of the Interactive Entertainment Business, and has been appointed chief executive at the social games firm, effective July 8, 2013. Reports say Mattrick resigned from Microsoft, although it’s yet to be officially disclosed under what terms the exec dep...
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The Division is a new open world RPG (role-playing game) developed by Ubisoft left gamers with many questions on how the game will actually play. Senior community developer Antoine Emond explains the game’s always-online co-op and PvP mechanics in a recent community Q&A. “The Division is an online, open world RPG experience where exploration, objectives and player progression are all ess...
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Watch Dogs’ WeareData, is announced by Ubisoft. WeareData is an experiential website designed to gather and graph the publicly available data that govern people’s lives in a single location. WeareData is initially available for the cities of Berlin, London and Paris. To discover the website please visit: http://wearedata.watchdogs.com/ via any Internet browser, even on smartphones and tablets. In ...
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Next week Microsoft will launch its web version of Xbox Music, according to a report on The Verge. The new streaming app from Microsoft is available on Xbox 360, Windows 8, and Windows 8 devices, but sources are claiming that the service will become widely available for the website at Music.Xbox.com. Much like Spotify, Xbox music allows its users to “Stream millions of songs” and downl...
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