New Japanese coming soon trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yAy3uoKg6E
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New Japanese coming soon trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yAy3uoKg6E
TITLE: Sony Online Entertainment sold to management firm and renamed Daybreak Game Company
URL LINK: http://o.canada.com/technology/gamin...k-game-company
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After almost 20 years, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), the developer of EverQuest, Planetside, DC Universe Online and the recently released H1Z1, has been sold by Sony to an investment firm called Columbus Nova.The developer is set to operate as an independent game studio under a new name, Daybreak Game Company.
This means the development studio will likely begin creating games for other platforms such as the Xbox One and the Wii U, as well as Android and iOS-based mobile devices. Previously as first-party developer, SOE was only able to make games for PlayStation platforms as well as the PC.
A press release about the sale reads as follows:
“Today, we are pleased to announce that we have been acquired by Columbus Nova, an investment management firm well-known for its success with its existing portfolio of technology, media and entertainment focused companies. This means that effective immediately SOE will operate as an independent game development studio where we will continue to focus on creating exceptional online games for players around the world, and now as a multi-platform gaming company. Yes, that means PlayStation and Xbox, mobile and more!”
Daybreak’s new studio president John Smedley recently tweeted he’s excited to begin development on Xbox One games, confirming rumours the developer would begin creating video games for the competing Xbox One platform.
[TWEET BY JOHN SMEDLY: can't wait to make Xbox One games! 12:44 PM - 2 Feb 2015]
SOE was originally founded as an internal Sony development studio in the mid-90s and is best known for creating EverQuest, an early and very influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game. The studio also developed other MMO-style games like The Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies and Planetside.
In terms of recent projects, Daybreak Game Company recently released H1Z1, a zombie survival MMO sandbox video game and was still developing EverQuest Next, the next title in its popular EverQuest franchise. Both these games will likely now make their way to Xbox platforms.
Columbus Nova is an investment firm based in New York and Silicon Valley that manages more than $15-billion in assets. Columbus Nova also owns Rhapsody, a video chat service called Rabbit and an online marketplace called Riverr, as well as numerous other technology related properties.
I would be shocked if anything of any real quality ever comes from that studio again after this.
Sony had to do something to cut it's losses. Simple business 101, nothing special.
Japanese Bloodborne launch trailer. This trailer contains epic in-game footage. Bloodborne will own. It is high time to get a PS4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKptPGvUhfQ
It looks interesting to me... but meh.
The one I'm waiting to see more on is No Man's Sky.
That's the one I'll potentially get a PS4 for. Till then, quite happy with my XB1.
So Dark Souls in Victorian London, basically? Sign me up!
Those kind of games always looks the same. Mostly just circular arenas to fight monsters...
Have you ever played a Souls game? Your assessment is baseless. Never judge a game simply by it's looks. I highly recommend you at least research the Souls series of games before making an ignorant statement like "circular arenas to fight monsters".Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwolf
I mean hack and slash games, nor Dark Souls series (yes I played them those are a different kind). Also you can also see that on the video, circular arenas with enemies or big enemy, with not different height, just simple. That happens a lot for those Devil May Cry clones... a pity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lan Di
Your argument makes absolutely no sense at all. You are babbling. That's like saying Super Mario Bros is a Pitfall clone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwolf
If you have played the Souls series like you vaguely stated, you would realize that Bloodborne is the spiritual successor to the original Demon's Souls. Not a "hack and slash clone".
Looking that video, yes. Anyway, you seems to like that new game, you had great hope for that game, that's fine. But not for me, and why, looking that video, its because I said. Also dude, calm down, seems you are offenced or something. Opinions, games, you know, that happenes.
That game looks okay.
Still not buying a PS4.
WANT!!!
I was going to get me a PS4 for my birthday anyways. I was planning to wait until then so that I could enjoy and finish several of the PS3 games I already own. Now that they'll be releasing this on my birthday, it's a no brainer.
At first, I was holding back from jumping into the 8th gen. Not only because I haven't yet played enough of my 7th gen titles, but because they only had a handful of titles, most of which were simple ports from the 7th gen anyways. But now I can't wait for a PS4. Games I want to buy for are:
Shenmue III
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Last Guardian
Horizon: Zero Dawn
No Man's Sky
New 8th Gen exclusive Assassin's Creed games
What about Fallout 4 and SW: Battlefront?