If you haven't been keeping up with the news, the classic Xbox 360 online gameshow 1 Vs. 100 appears to be back in development at Microsoft, although it seems the project might have changed its team lead recently.
According to a discussion between reporters Jeff Grubb of VentureBeat and Jez Corden of Windows Central, the original team lead on the project was former Microsoft HoloLens boss Alex Kipman, who recently was announced to be leaving the company shortly after a report alleged he'd been involved in "executive misconduct".
It's been suggested by Corden that the new team lead on 1 Vs. 100 might be Jeff Teper, who is a Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365 services, reporting to Chief Product Officer Panos Panay.
There's no guarantee all of this information is 100% accurate, so take it with a pinch of salt, but it's certainly intriguing if so. It was hinted by Grubb last year that the AltspaceVR team was seemingly working on the game at Microsoft, appearing to suggest that it might be something very different than what we saw back in the Xbox 360 era. Perhaps it might be developed for a whole range of devices including VR headsets?
At the moment, we really don't know much about it at all, other than the fact that Phil Spencer was very keen to bring 1 Vs. 100 back to Xbox some form when he talked about in 2020. Let's hope that eventually proves the case.
Do you want to see the return of 1 Vs. 100 on Xbox? Tell us down in the comments below.
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Hope this comes back. It was a lot of fun back in the day. And with today’s technology, I’m sure it would even be quite a bit better.
Get the servers back on for the old one. Some people need to finish up achievements. Not me but people
When they did not show anything on this during the June show I was really dissapointed, Specially with the show being all about the next year. I really thought they would have had at least a early version of this game ready to show and have it expected to be played for sure within a year of now.
This could be such a big hit! If they do it right, get a couple sponsors to give away prizes. I could see this even being big in Japan and helping sell consoles.
A fun game show, that they would probably have to do twice or three times a day. Where lets say you can win game currensy, because the more I think about it, it would be too many prizes to give out if they did prizers for all of the winner... Plus you wanna give a nice incentive for the 100 playing against the 1.
But yeah put stuff like controllers n XGP subscription codes in a prize section. The game would take off.
N if they really only did the game say at like 3:30 in the afternoon and again at 6:30 or 7:30 at night... I am sure their would eventually be a huge spike of people playing at those times if the game caught on.
I really hope Xbox wakes up and gets their game developers oiled up and pumpin out genuinely fun and quality games at a much more consistant pace. 2022 has been just waaay too much waiting around for next year. Not a fun feeling.
Has MS had a single team where a lead hasn’t left or been replaced midway through developement? I know people move on in their careers at some point, but this story seems to be every other week lately with Xbox first party studios.
And there are still some who insist there’s no management issue at Xbox… people constantly leaving, delays, studios themselves complaining of MS being too hands off… No management issues, honest.
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