Over the years, Microsoft has significantly increased the size of its Xbox Game Studios publishing wing, with the firm now overseeing more than 30 game development teams while updating existing titles and working on upcoming projects.
Given how many studios there are and how different their specialties are, many feel they work in their own enclosed bubbles under the Xbox and don’t interact much. According to Matt Booty, Xbox’s recently promoted chief content officer, that’s not the case at all.
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Some other examples mentioned by Booty include South of midnight dev Compulsion Games uses Activision’s Mo Cap studio, Sea of Thieves creator Nadir is helping Double Fine’s inevitable pottery feud ovenStory tools and in-game store technology shared between RPG developers Minecraft for Microsoft flight simulator for Starfield.
Gears of War’s The Coalition is also working with the Unreal Engine, which benefits several Xbox studios, and Booty says that effort is at the heart of a team called “XGTG” — the Xbox Games Technology Group, which is “a center of excellence around Unreal Engine work.”
“It’s a group that really has a center of excellence around Unreal Engine work and then takes that out and presents it to other studios,” he said. “They’re not brought in to work on games, and they’re not a firefighting team. They’re developing the technology, but they’re packaging it in a way that’s very easy to hand off to other studios.”
Overall, it’s great to hear that Xbox’s various development teams are working so closely together and that the Blizzard Cinematics department is working on it. Fairy tale Especially pretty exciting considering WoW, Diablo and how awesome they are Overwatch is cinematography. We hope the “culture of cultures” continues to make development smoother for all Xbox Game Studios.
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