Epic owned the Gears IP until this news hit. MS just had a contract with them to release it only on their system.
They did Age of Empires Online in 2011. I wanted to play that. I was kinda hoping it would make it to Xbox 360. It looked a lot like Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution.
That's right. Only the first one made it to PC. Thank you wiki.
I was so into Bioshock Infinite's world when the trailers came out, but when I played it I was disappointed it wasn't as interactive as I expected it to be. It seemed like a frozen environment with the only interaction a few searchable spots and shooting enemy.
There's also Fable Trilogy out the same day Feb 4 as Anniversary containing Anniversary, Fable II and III. I almost want that but I have II and III now.
They had a deal with Epic Games to release exclusively on Xbox, but Epic owned the IP, until just recently. Now MS can assign whoever they want to do the next game, even to a studio that hasn't proven anything yet like Black Tusk.
Who's Rare? I mean, what happened to Rare? Since 2010 all they've done is Kinect Sports. OMG!
Nidhogg. Coolness.
Cool. I have to sign up over there... working... done. I'm now there as AIWithWarpDrive, which is my user name on Steam as well.
I read somewhere that bad responces from a test group made them push the game out to 2014 for more work (which is basically what they said in your link too). This has me worried a bit but the wiki page says the devs have described it as a spiritual successor to Hexen and Witchhaven and that's all I need to know to be on board.
They closed Ensemble (Age of Empires, Halo Wars), boo! They made Rare do Avatars and Kinect games, boo! They have Lionhead doing Kinect, XBLA, and now a multiplayer game, boo! They gave Halo to 343 Industries and they teased MC about his age and possible sociopathic tendencies, boo! Tell me I'm wrong, please, but man, this doesn't look good.
