… After all, during the company’s “2026 Economic Growth Strategy” conference in January , Hyung-tae Kim, Shift Up’s CEO and Stellar Blade’s director, appeared to offer a pretty strong endorsement of the controversial technology and its potential application in game development. “One person can perfor… …
… That is part of what you are starting to see in the shift from Xbox to XBOX. …
… How to square that move with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s stark memo about dismal profit margins for the tech giant’s gaming division? While exclusives are a necessary building block of any console-first gaming strategy, they also lock studios and publishers out of revenue from players on other platforms. …
… They might take comfort, then, in Xbox’s new chief strategy officer’s belief that console gaming remains “important, durable, and still growing.” That was a sentiment Matthew Ball shared with Bloomberg today in some of his first on-the-record comments since joining Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s leadership… …
… While new Xbox leadership touts major shifts, everything so far feels like we could be back in the middle of 2023. …
… The London-based team swelled to 40 people during the peak of development, however, and then the streaming giant removed the game from its service six months after launch as its own strategy around gaming completely shifted . “I think going forward, we’ll see that we’ve got a core team and any grow… …
… But a shift in strategy ended up leaving Dark Outlaw Games on the chopping block. “It fucking sucked,” Blundell and JCbackfire said about finding out the bad news this week. “We have to respect confidentiality so we can’t go into every gory detail,” Blundell added. “Long story short, we are unemplo… …
… The second is that Microsoft doesn’t know the answers to this yet and isn’t prepared to start signaling big strategy shifts until it has completed the latest round of mass layoffs and cuts across its sprawling gaming business . …
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… Only those who were shifted off of the game to work on Marathon or incubating new projects were aware of the unexpected cancelation of an upcoming expansion. …