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[lighthouse777]

Microsoft Studios – Current projects list (August 2015 – Gamescom)


http://steverulez.com/?p=16192

see link

 

[JetSetRadio]

Who's making the new Links and Midtown Madness 4?

 

[lighthouse777]

Gamescom 2015 Edition

First-party studios:
•343 Industries – Halo 5: Guardians (Xbox One) / Halo: The Master Chief Collection updates (Xbox One) / Halo Wars 2 (Xbox One/PC)
•Big Park – Entertainment and sports apps (Xbox One)
•Decisive Games – Unannounced strategy game
•[Fun]ction Studios – Hololens development
•Good Science Studio – Hololens development
•Lift London – Hololens development
•Lionhead Studios – Fable Legends (Xbox One/PC) / New IP
•LXP – Hololens development
•Mojang – Minecraft (PC/Mobile/Hololens)
•Press Play – Unannounced new project
•Rare – Sea of Thieves (Xbox One/PC) / RareReplay (Xbox One)
•Team Dakota – Project Spark (Xbox One/PC)
•The Coalition – Gears of War 4 (Xbox One) / Gears of War Ultimate Edition (Xbox One/PC)
•Twisted Pixel – “AAA” game
•Turn10 – Forza Motorsport 6 (Xbox One)

Second party studios (publishing relationships or contract work):
•4J Studios – Minecraft: Xbox Edition DLC (Xbox One/Xbox 360) / Rare Replay (Xbox One)
•Armature Studios – ReCore (Xbox One)
•Cloudgine – Crackdown 3 (Xbox One)
•Code Mystics – Rare Replay (Xbox One)
•Comcept – ReCore (Xbox One)
•Fatshark – Cobalt (Xbox One/Xbox 360)
•Harmonix Music Systems – Dance Central: Spotlight DLC (Xbox One)
•Iron Galaxy – Killer Instinct: Season Three (Xbox One/PC)
•Moon Studios – Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition [DLC Expansion] (Xbox One/PC)
•Motiga – Gigantic (Xbox One/PC)
•Oxeye Games – Cobalt (Xbox One/Xbox 360/PC)
•Platinum Games – Scalebound (Xbox One)
•Playground Games – Forza Horizon 2 DLC (Xbox One)
•ReAgent Games – Crackdown 3 (Xbox One)
•Remedy Entertainment – Quantum Break (Xbox One)
•Saber Interactive – Halo Online (PC)
•Splash Damage – Gears of War Ultimate Edition (Xbox One/PC)
•Undead Labs – State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition (Xbox One/PC) / Unannounced project
•Sumo Digital – Crackdown 3 (Xbox One)
•Vanguard Games – Halo: Spartan Strike (PC/mobile)
•Wargaming.net – World of Tanks: Xbox Edition (Xbox 360/Xbox One)

Third-party relationships (exclusives games that are third-party publisher titles):
•Creative Assembly [Sega] – Halo Wars 2 (Xbox One/PC)
•Crystal Dynamics [Square Enix] – Rise of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One/Xbox 360)

Recent publishing or third-partnerships partnerships with no announced active exclusive project:
•Certain Affinity – Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Xbox One)
•Frontier Developments – Screamride (Xbox One/Xbox 360)
•Harmonix Music Systems [Disney Interactive] – Fantasia: Music Evolved DLC (Xbox One/Xbox 360)
•Insomniac Games – Sunset Overdrive (Xbox One)
•Ruffian Games – Halo The Master Chief Collection: Halo 3 / Halo 4/Halo 3 ODST (Xbox One)

Other information/hints:
•Contract partners: •One Bit Labs – “Top Secret” on Xbox One box art under current work (Not updated post-Gamescom as yet)
•Skybox Labs – Unannounced Xbox One project (Not updated post-Gamescom as yet)

•Lift London •Hololens development

•New studios: •Decisive Games •“AAA title within an established and well-loved strategy game franchise”
•Games for Windows and Xbox

•Platform Next Studios – Hololens

•Phantom Dust – Currently without a developer but not cancelled
•Team Dakota – Incubation team for their next project

Rumours/Speculation:
•Rare Replay DLC?

 

[dugdug]

Huh, didn't know Sumo Digital were working on Crackdown.

 

[Podge293]

that is a solid amount of stuff in play

 

[lighthouse777]

Who's making the new Links and Midtown Madness 4?

no idea

 

[JordanKZ]

Decisive Games – Unannounced strategy game

GIVE. GIIIVE...

 

[JaggedSac]

Who is Decisive Games?

 

[iMax]

GIVE. GIIIVE...

Pretty sure that's just the publisher-side development of Halo Wars 2.

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

Who is Decisive Games?

New internal studio working on a "beloved Strategy title" for XB1/Win10. Job posting:

"Senior Software Engineer
Sizzle + VP: Be part of Microsoft Game Studios, and help us create the next-generation of awesome games for Windows and Xbox!

Team: The Decisive Games team is focused on world class strategy game development, and is building a studio that will bring the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise to the next generation of gamers around the world. This is a highly-collaborative, agile team, with a play-centric approach to game development.


And yes, it could just be the name of the MS side of the team for Halo Wars 2

 

[NippleViking]

Pretty sure that's just the publisher-side development of Halo Wars 2.

Hush you!~ :'( This time it's Age of Empires 4

Spoiler

real

 

[Helznicht]

Who's making the new Links and Midtown Madness 4?

What? Must know more, is there a new Links in development?

 

[Calm Killer]

Nevermind, I am blind.

 

[Baron_Calamity]

Who's making the new Links and Midtown Madness 4?

No one?

Serious I would go nuts for either but I haven't heard anything solid for either.

 

[wapplew]

Wow, MS first and second party is crazy this gen.

 

[Heigic]

Someone should tell Microsoft that that the strategy genre died in the 10 years they abandoned the PC. I'm not complaining though.

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

Skybox Labs still has an unannounced Xbox One title also

 

[DopeyFish]

Who's making the new Links and Midtown Madness 4?

Links was sold off with Top Spin and Amped to 2K, no?

Or maybe it was with fever and their NHL game to ubi

Cant remember

Edit: it was 2K. They own Links.

 

[lighthouse777]

No one?

Serious I would go nuts for either but I haven't heard anything solid for either.

that's a phil question, last game was in 2003 for midtown

 

[Rosur]

New internal studio working on a "beloved Strategy title" for XB1/Win10. Job posting:

"Senior Software Engineer
Sizzle + VP: Be part of Microsoft Game Studios, and help us create the next-generation of awesome games for Windows and Xbox!

Team: The Decisive Games team is focused on world class strategy game development, and is building a studio that will bring the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise to the next generation of gamers around the world. This is a highly-collaborative, agile team, with a play-centric approach to game development.


And yes, it could just be the name of the MS side of the team for Halo Wars 2

Yea expecting it to be Halo Wars 2. Though would be cool if their reviving Age of Empires.

 

[lighthouse777]

Yea expecting it to be Halo Wars 2. Though would be cool if their reviving Age of Empires.

give me age of mythology

 

[Human_me]

Hush you!~ :'( This time it's Age of Empires 4

Spoiler

real

It better be! I've been waiting nearly 10 years for that game.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

I don't see Crimson Skies or Mechwarrior/Assault.

 

[Walpurgis]

What's with all the collaborations?

 

[Alx]

That's a lot of Hololens support. Which is cool, but I wouldn't mind if they also had one or two teams on pure kinect content.

And Team Dakota is also hiring for a project unrelated to Project Spark, I think.

 

[Steverulez]

Skybox Labs still has an unannounced Xbox One title also

I suspect that is either a halo wars port or it's helping on halo wars 2 given their background personally but we shall see

 

[Noobcraft]

I think Playground games is well beyond Forza Horizon 2 DLC at this point. Their twitter implies they're working on new stuff.

 

[Banderdash]

I don't see Crimson Skies or Mechwarrior/Assault.

Well, I mean, Piranha has licensed the MechWarrior IP for MechWarrior Online... but Microsoft still own it.

If I remember correctly they got renewed for another 3? years earlier this year.

 

[Zizbuka]

More PC support please...... and while you're at it, bring back Monster Truck Madness!

 

[Chezzymann]

Damn like half their first party studios are working on hololens stuff. That's a big investment

 

[Aceofspades]

This is the first time I have seen a list with already released games and DLC included as seperate projects, filter those and you have one underwhelming list of games.

 

[IAmRandom31]

that first party list was a whole bunch of nothing.

Sea of Thieves looks pretty interesting though

 

[dork]

This list is just reminding me that Fable Legends is still not out yet

 

[BleedOrange]

Someone should tell Microsoft that that the strategy genre died in the 10 years they abandoned the PC. I'm not complaining though.

RTS games are the quintessential PC-first games. If anyone on the planet has a vested interest in cultivating a platform-specific genre for a platform with a KB+mouse it will be MS. Maybe it won't be the heyday of RTS games like it was 15 years ago but there's a market there for sure.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

What's with all the collaborations?

They have barely any internal studios. What else are they going to do?

 

[MightyKAC]

•Moon Studios – Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition [DLC Expansion] (Xbox One/PC)

Huh, never new this was announced before and here I was thinking about buying it on steam...

Looks like I hold off for a bit.

 

[Poodlestrike]

They have barely any internal studios. What else are they going to do?

There are 15 first party studios right there in that list.

Like, right up the page.

 

[dr_rus]

Someone should tell Microsoft that that the strategy genre died in the 10 years they abandoned the PC. I'm not complaining though.

They're trying to bring them on consoles though which didn't happen earlier. I'm not holding my breath though. HW2 will sell whatever it will sell only because it'll be a Halo game.

 

[mejin]

This is the best Microsoft since ever, but is still so underwhelming.

 

[Steverulez]

There are 15 first party studios right there in that list.

Like, right up the page.

In terms of just plain Dev studios I think he's right though. So many haven't shipped a game yet or are on hololens, I had been tempted to take the hololens studios off but I decided not to for now

Thanks for linking to my site btw lighthouse!

 

[Trago]

Unannounced strategy title? Please be Age of Empires.

Also, I'm gonna guess that Twisted Pixel's new AAA game is a 3d platformer of some kind. Splosion Man 3D?

 

[gasb0705]

* Ctrl + F *
* Monster Truck Madness *
* No results found *

 

[speedomodel]

Really curious what Undead Labs are working on..

 

[OnionPowder]

Really curious what Undead Labs are working on..

Aren't they making the State of Decay MMO?

 

[Poodlestrike]

Unannounced strategy title? Please be Age of Empires.

Also, I'm gonna guess that Twisted Pixel's new AAA game is a 3d platformer of some kind. Splosion Man 3D?

Age of Empires is the most likely candidate now that we know that Creative Assembly is doing Halo Wars. Either that or Rise of Nations, though that might fail the "franchise" qualification from the original announcement.

 

[speedomodel]

Aren't they making the State of Decay MMO?

No formal announcement as of yet, but I'd expect that. But they were working on a mobile game as well, I believe.

 

[Baron_Calamity]

Damn like half their first party studios are working on hololens stuff. That's a big investment

I hope the tech pans out. It seems more interesting that regular VR

 

[deadman69]

RTS games are the quintessential PC-first games. If anyone on the planet has a vested interest in cultivating a platform-specific genre for a platform with a KB+mouse it will be MS. Maybe it won't be the heyday of RTS games like it was 15 years ago but there's a market there for sure.

nah rts's are a controller thing now.

 

[SkinnerSw33t]

I think Playground games is well beyond Forza Horizon 2 DLC at this point. Their twitter implies they're working on new stuff.

Damn. I was excited for a new expansion with the scope of Storm Island or bigger.

New as in FH3 or something else entirely?

 

[Dragon]

Wait Phantom Dust wasn't canceled?