Every night when I go to bed, I set my radio to my local NPR station because they are the only ones that play Classical music throughout the night. I love music of all sorts, but really love Classical (plus, it puts me to sleep compared to music genres); it's just something about the many instruments coming together to orchestrate a melody.
There is this one segment called 'Performance Today' which highlights concerts in many areas of the world, and plays the music that had been played. We hear about highlights, as well as some interesting stories behind the music.
So one night, I head to bed as usual and I hear something about 'DarkSiders II.' I leaned over, and turn up the volume. I think it was a stand in for the regular host, but he talks about the music in the game, and talks about a particular piece.
Emily Reese is host of a Video Game music podcast called Top Score: a podcast about Video Game music, and the composers who write them. In this particular mention, he talked about the soundtrack of DarkSiders II, and the composer Jesper Kyd.
Unfortunately, I missed the interview (but it's available to listen on their site, which I will link to at the bottom) - but it was just interesting to hear a mention about Video Game music in the program. I know Video Game music has been played at concerts and such sometimes (just look up videos on Youtube), but it was just... interesting to hear a mention, and to hear the song actually played on the radio station.
I'm really curious as to how Video Game Music, particularly ones like the DarkSiders II theme above, are acknowledged by Classical Composers. Are they taken as seriously as non-Video Game pieces? Of what relevance would a Video Game piece have compared to, say, a non-Video Game piece revered by Classical lovers of the world?
Here is the link:
http://performancetoday.pub...
Gamesbeat caught up with Blackley to extract some wisdom about Microsoft’s journey in games, what he thinks Sharma should do, and where gaming can go next. Part of his message is hopeful, but Blackley sees a lot of peril on the road that Microsoft is following. And it makes him worry about the future of gaming.
Sarah Bond's "Xbox everywhere" strategy and controversial "This is an Xbox" campaign have been blamed for alienating Xbox employees and failing to deliver results, with multiple sources telling they're relieved by her departure.
This adds more clarity to the situation. She was in charge of marketing so I 100% do. Believe this was her. The fact that she pissed off a lot of ppl with this campaign was interesting. The kicker she kicked you out if you questioned her moves. Sounds like a Satya move to me.
Ok when it comes to the marketing of the Xbox maybe not get rid of where Xbox is at but advertise the console, bundle 1 month of GP and have "xbox everywhere" as a side thing or just a minor thing. It's too late for Series consoles but do this with their next console. If GP is 30$ this needs to justified ASAP put all of ABK. Remake remaster popular games and put those out on the service. Have a handful of AAA games come day one even. Perma exclusivety is dead however they can be timed. The would at least give ppl a somewhat of a reason to invest. Satya will not allow permanent exclusives again.
Do I still think Xbox is dead? Depends, how much will Satya not get involved and let Asha and Matt figure something out. The more I think about it, I think Satya only really gets involved if the financials aren't lookin so hot. I think Xbox going multiplat was a result of wanting make their money back from ABK and of course raise their unreasonable and near unrealistic margins.
Anyway, things did get interesting and adds nuance just how Xbox is ran.
I’ve read that article they put out on this and it just sounds like a massive hit piece on her. They’ve basically thrown her under the bus.
I highly doubt all of this was just her idea, especially the multiplatform stuff.
Ever since the Zenimax and Activision deal all eyes have been on the Xbox department. There’s no way she’d have acted alone with decisions as big as these, Phil Spencer and Satya Nadella would have been all over this aswell, especially with them both being higher than her.
When they brought her in I thought to myself she’d be used as a scape goat and here we are.
It’s the exact same thing they did when Don Mattrick left “oh it wasn’t our idea, it was all Don, our new leader Phil Spencer is a gamer and will turn things around”.
Exactly, they always have to pin it on someone. Everything was Don Mattrick's fault before. Now everything is Sarah Bond's fault.
People act like these companies don't have focus groups, board meetings, focus testing, etc for these ideas before they hit.
They'd rather blame her rather than the product they asked her to market. How else was she going to market playing your xbox games on any device? Has anyone stopped to think that the marketing was bad because the product itself was bad?
But I don't feel sorry for her, she knew the kind of people she was working with
Would it still be a hit piece if it was actually true? If she really was behind the whole everything is an xbox... then I say they took the chance and it didnt pay off. Most companies let people go over bad decisions like that.
That's just it darth72, it more than likely isn't the truth because we know she didn't have control over everything at Xbox. That would be Phil Spencer, who has Don Mattrick's old position.
And to be fair, even he can't be blamed for everything since it's highly unlikely all this goes on without Nadella's blessing at some point
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard returns the series to its horror roots, and on the Nintendo Switch 2, you can take those frights everywhere.
