Microsoft Store Fee Lowered from 30% to 12% for PC Games; Halo Infinite Will Have Crossplay and Cross-Progression Apr 29, 2021 09:28 EDT
As rumored earlier this week, Microsoft s Head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty posted an update on its commitment to PC gaming today, starting with a great piece of news for all Microsoft Store developers. Beginning on August 1st, the revenue share will be changed from 70% to 88%, thus matching the Epic Games Store in this regard and allowing game developers to retain a greater amount of revenue from their hard work.
Booty also revealed that Halo Infinite will feature crossplay and cross-progression functionality for its multiplayer modes, allowing PC gamers to play on Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X too should they desire it, with progress shared across all platforms. The executive went on to promise a premiere PC experience for Halo Infinite, including support for ultrawide and super ultrawide screens, triple keybinds, a wide variety of adv
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Drew Murray Leaves The Initiative for Insomniac
Co-founder and lead designer at The Initiative, Drew Murray has officially announced his move from the Xbox Game Studio back to Insomniac Games, the team he was with prior to The Initiative. While Murray has been with The Initiative for a while now, he was previously involved with Insomniac Games where he worked on titles such as Resistance: Fall of Man. Insomniac Games’ recently released Spider-Man: Miles Morales is available for PS4 and PS5 right now.
“I guess ten years, five games, and six job titles just wasn’t enough. I’m excited to be rejoining many friends and former colleagues at Insomniac Games as a Principal Designer,” said Drew Murray in a recent Twitter post that featured a selfie of a very quizzical-looking Principal Designer. “That takes me to my seventh job title; now I just need to work some days and make some games, right?” Considering Drew Murray has been part of the Insomniac team so many years ago, i
A deep-dive into the future of subscription gaming. Updated on 18 February 2021
Video game subscriptions are all the rage. Or, maybe that s not quite right. It
looks like video game subscriptions
will be all the rage, in the
not too distant future,
if things carry on in the direction they re going right now. Right now, of course, people are getting their games in more or less the same ways they always have - buying them outright, or downloading them as initially free-to-play - but right now, too, the biggest tech companies around are toying with their own, subscription-based alternatives. Google has Stadia Pro, Amazon is rolling out Luna (alongside Prime Gaming, formerly Twitch Prime), Apple has Apple Arcade, and more internally to the industry itself there are plenty more, from EA Play and Ubisoft+ to PlayStation Now and, sitting atop the monthly payment pyramid above all, Xbox Game Pass.