It has been seven-and-a-half months since Microsoft acquired Skype in a $8.5 billion buyout last year, yet the software giant has yet to roll out the video calling platform across its key services, including Xbox 360. And it is believed that we may have to wait longer still for the games console version, with a suggestion that it won't be available until 2013.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
The name "Hewson" carries a special weight for anyone who grew up during the golden age of British computing. As the son of Andrew Hewson—the man behind legendary publisher Hewson Consultants—Rob Hewson didn't just grow up playing video games; he learned to spell his name from their title screens. However, Rob didn't just rest on his family's 8-bit laurels. From leading major LEGO franchises at TT Games to tackling the high-stakes world of technical porting at Huey Games, Rob has carved out a unique path in an ever-evolving industry. In this candid interview Rob to discussed the burden and beauty of a family legacy, the technical "scar tissue" left by the ambitious Hydrophobia, and why porting a masterpiece like Inscryption to consoles is far more than a simple copy-paste job.
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I really hope this Skype integration isn't going to be just a run of the mill bog standard app with voice and video chat, although that would be great and all i feel Microsoft could do more with it.
What id like for them to do is integrate it into the already existing Xbox live chat/party chat. We all know the party is already pretty good but the skype sound quality is just on another level..... they could even go as far as to make it perform over multiple platforms example: Guy A is on his Xbox, Guy B is on his PC and Guy C is on his phone while all being in the same party chat. I feel this would really help Microsoft in the long run..... even the Kinect could maybe use some of the Skype video encoding (although im not sure how good or bad Skype video is).