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Phil Spencer Talks Activision Deal And Xbox’s Policy On Exclusive Games
In a new interview, Xbox boss Phil Spencer discussed the reasons behind the Activision Blizzard acquisition and the company’s policy on console exclusivity.
Speaking to XboxOn, Phil Spencer claimed that Xbox is focused on June’s showcase, but other news will be on the way. Spencer also mentioned that Everwild, from developer Rare, is still in development. When asked about the response to the Activision Blizzard acquisition, Spencer said, “For the Xbox community, there’s a lot of anticipation… for the industry, and I think this is right, there’s questions about, well, what does this mean… how is this going to affect competition?”
He re-affirmed that the Activision Blizzard acquisition was never primarily about Call of Duty, but was about building the company’s mobile portfolio. “[Mobile] is the largest gaming platform on the planet…for us, the logic really started from how do we gain more capability on mobile?” He commented on Call of Duty itself. He said, “we want to increase the places where people can play Call of Duty. Kind of like Minecraft.” He also affirmed that certain modes or cosmetics in Call of Duty will not be exclusive to Xbox.
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Xbox’s Hi-Fi Rush has that Dreamcast era vibe, and it could be one of the best games of the year
Time is ever-flowing, but it’s also undoubtedly a flat circle. Trends come and go, and loop back around, and here we are – it’s the year of our lord 2023, and a time portal has just opened above our heads and dropped a Dreamcast classic into our laps. Or a GameCube classic, to be fair – it feels like it’d be most at home on either of those. The point is, the latest first-party addition to Xbox Game Pass feels like it’s time traveled from circa 1998-2003. And I mean that in the best possible way.
A new off-beat action game from Tango Gameworks, the Bethesda studio that up until this point has been all about survival horror. The studio was founded by Shinji Mikami, the man most often credited as the most influential person in the creation of the Resident Evil series – and thus far, the studio’s works have matched up to that. But this game, on which Mikami is the producer behind director John Johanas of The Evil Within 2 fame, demonstrates that he – and Tango – can do so much more.
Colorful, slick, and with a gorgeous aesthetic and bright-eyed attitude, Hi-Fi Rush recalls a lot of my favorite games of that era, where the spirit of approachable and accessible arcade games merged with the first console hardware that was truly on par or more powerful than what was available in arcades. When I talk about this era, I’m talking about stuff like Crazy Taxi, and Jet Set Radio, and Viewtiful Joe – the latter of which was actually produced by Mikami. That’s the energy on display here.
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