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The Whole Shebang
Microsoft have announced that they will be revealing their “full line-up” of Project Natal games at this year’s E3, which will be taking place in June. The CFO of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices division, Mindy Mount, told the Jefferies Annual Global Technology Conference in the US that Microsoft has their best designers working on the platform.
Although it is known that Rare and Lionhead Studios are working on Project Natal titles, no further details of which developers were on-board were given. Considering that Microsoft’s stable of first-party developers has been reduced in recent years, many people are speculating who are on the Project Natal development list. Smaller teams, like Spawnpoint and BigPark, are also believed to be involved.
"We have very strong first and third-party developer support for [Natal]," Mount said. "Needless to say, we're putting some of our best people on coming up with great game ideas for this, and we're going to have some great stuff."
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Hacker Attacks
Ubisoft have brought to light the fact that recent problems with their new server-based DRM solution were not because of high demand, as was previously implied, but rather were the result of hacker attacks. The new DRM system requires players to be online even when playing single player PC games. Over the past weekend, gamers trying to play Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 could not access the server.
According to Twitter updates, the servers were attacked again on Monday, resulting in some users experiencing trouble signing in. However, Ubisoft claim that 95 % of users did not experience any problems.
Ubisoft have also said that rumours of hacked versions of these two games are false. While pirate versions of the games can be found, they are not complete versions. The new DRM system was put in place to combat heavy piracy of Ubisoft’s PC titles.
"At the moment, if you release the PC version, essentially what you're doing is letting people have a free version that they rip off instead of a purchased version. Piracy's basically killing PC," said Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Michael de Plater.
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