Today on E3 2012
RePLAY: Microsoft won’t join in the mascot brawler bandwagon, the Unreal Engine
4 is unveiled and the fate of Activision-Blizzard.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. franchise, which begs
the question if Microsoft will follow suit. The head of Microsoft’s game
studios tells gamers today they “do not want” that game.
“You do not want that
game,” Phil Spencer told Kotaku after trying to brainstorm a roster for a
Microsoft-based brawler.
“I’m not going to take
a shot at Sony first-party [game development],” said Spencer. “I think they do
some great games. We’re going to try to build games that actually create new
opportunity on our platform. I don’t really need to go and fill genres with the
teams that we have.
“I don’t compete with
games that are already on my platform. Sure, all games on some level compete
for a dollar bill, but for us it’s really going to be to try to innovate. I
haven’t played the game [PlayStation
All-Stars Battle Royale], so I’m not saying it’s not innovative, but…”
“We’re not going to
get an Xbox mascot fighter?” asked Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo.
“Sorry,” he said.
|Source: Kotaku
Epic Games unveiled the
Unreal Engine 4 today with a real-time demo titled “Elemental” that showcased
sophisticated dynamic illumination, light-reactive materials, rich particle
effects and per-pixel lens flares, Joystiq reports.
The earliest we’ll see
shipped games running on Unreal Engine 4 is 2013, based on Epic’s estimates.
|Source: Joystiq
Activision-Blizzard may
be up for sale sometime this month following an annual senior executive meeting
by Vivendi, the publisher’s parent company.
Vivendi executives will
discuss the part or complete sale of its 61 percent stake in
Activision-Blizzard, anonymous sources told Bloomberg.
Bloomberg sources also
say that a sale of Activision would be Chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou’s attempt to
unlock value from assets, because of the holding structure at Vivendi.
A Vivendi spokesman
told Bloomberg that the annual meeting is only a “forum of exchange and
discussion” and not for “quick-fix decisions or solutions” while declining to
comment on specific scenarios.
Activision-Blizzard’s
share price has dropped to $11.70 per share, a 3.3 percent decrease, since the
report was made.
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