With everything going on last week, you may have missed the news that Xbox Game Studios Publishing announced a momentous social media comeback that would put the Spice Girls to shame. For those that don't know, the department works with independent studio partners to create first party games for Xbox, such as the Ori series. Following its revival on Twitter, it's been revealed Portal creator Kim Swift has joined the team.
In an announcement, it was said Swift will help "accelerate [Xbox Games Studios Publishing] innovation and collaborate with independent studios to build games for the cloud". Outside of Portal, Swift has also worked on other huge franchises such as Half-Life and Star Wars Battlefront, so will undoubtedly know how to source fantastic first-party games for Xbox.
As evidenced during this year's E3, Xbox is a fine position for growth, and this is one of many decisions in the past 12 months that works to accelerate the Xbox brand. With factors such as Game Pass and Cloud Gaming, there's a ton of innovation happening to ensure all players can enjoy their games in the most accessible way. If Swift is going to work to bring more exciting games to our platforms, we're excited to see the results.
How do you feel about Kim Swift joining Xbox Games Studios Publishing? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Microsoft is unstoppable now. 🙌
Hopefully she can make a new Portal 3. That is all I want in life is Portal 3 and for it to be the same as Portal 2 but improved and updated. Oh... and it must have Cave Johnson.
@Senua If that’s true, we need this ASAP. I’d buy a Series strictly for a Kojima game. I’d make it happen.
Still think Abandoned has something to do with Kojima though, but if I were to bet, I’d say Kojima has several games in development right now.
@somnambulance Abandoned is either one of his best trolling skits to date, or one of the biggest PR nightmares in recent times.
@somnambulance Honestly there are way better reasons to invest into the xbox ecosystem than any overhyped Kojima game but whatever suits you.
@Senua eh, it hasn’t been proven to me yet. The Series consoles struggle from a lack of exclusive content currently and that doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon. I was hoping for Halo to blow me away at E3, but that didn’t happen. Would love to get excited about the Xbox ecosystem again though. Just seems like a quiet pipeline til late 2022, potentially 2023 at the moment (not going to get excited about Starfield til I see it in action after the whole Fallout 76 thing, you know?).
@Jaxx420 totally agree. If it’s not Kojima, it’s a No Man’s Sky releasing in a post-Cyberpunk world.
@somnambulance “The Series consoles struggle from a lack of exclusive content”
The series consoles will never have any exclusive content. Microsoft is following the strategy of - play what you like, with whom you like and on the devices where you like. So they are doing away with this console exclusive obsessed sheep mentality which is why I’ve used the word “Xbox ecosystem”. But anyways Forza Horizon 5 gameplay demo easily looked more photorealistic and next gen than any games seen so far from other platforms and seeing the new Halo Infinite vidoc, it’s a long time for the Halo community since everyone was this much excited again for the franchise. These two billion dollar franchises will be selling like hotcakes this year.
@Senua I don’t 100% agree. I think Xbox does care to create exclusive content, or else we’d have Halo on PlayStation. Whether it’s on PC or not is irrelevant for exclusivity in my eyes. It’s not sheep mentality to desire to have a diverse line-up of exclusive content for your consoles that is unique from the other consoles one would own. It gives a reason to own that console in specific. I owned the original Xbox and 360 because of fantastic exclusives. I owned the Xbox One because of my experience with previous Xboxes. I do not own an Xbox Series because of my experience with Xbox One, where most of my friends had abandoned the ecosystem and there were few exclusives that drew my interest independent of social gaming. I want Xbox to succeed, but it does need compelling exclusives to bring me back in as a customer and I think that’s fair. Nintendo brought me back with the Switch’s catalogue, after all.
I’m hoping to get more excited about Halo as the PR cycle continues, but I’m feeling reserved based on my experience with other 343 Halo games.
@somnambulance “I think Xbox does care to create exclusive content, or else we’d have Halo on PlayStation.”
By Xbox ecosystem I only meant Xbox consoles, PC and cloud.
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