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Remember the four new games in development at Microsoft's new Lift London studio, the ones that will apparently "redefine what triple-A represents"? You can expect to lay eyes on three of them in the not too distant future.

That's according to studio head Lee Schuneman, who spoke to OXM as part of the London Calling feature in our Christmas 2013 issue. "We've got a high bar for innovation," he said, during an interview recorded in November. "We have three cool titles in development that we'll reveal very soon."

As to what those titles might consist of, all we know is that they're free-to-play games for "connected platforms". Addressing audiences at the Develop conference this spring, Schuneman highlighted the need to "build universes that will grow with the audience and follow them onto whatever device they own". Something in the vein of the (excellent) cross-platform Skulls of the Shogun seems probable, then.

It's also likely that the new games will follow in the footsteps of Remedy's Quantum Break, which seeks to collapse (or at least, make an artistic point of) the "barrier" 'twixt games and non-interactive media. As Schuneman puts it in the new issue, "we want to create new experiences that join TV, gaming and so on, and bring it into something unique."

In other news, Microsoft is currently "incubating" a number of "primarily cloud-based" Xbox One titles.

http://www.oxm.co.uk/67392/microsoft-to-reveal-three-cool-lift-london-games-very-soon/



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I'm eager to see what they're developing. I've made no secret of the fact that the 360's lack of exclusives is what separated it and the PS3 for me. The XO could be an entirely new ballgame. I've switched once, from Nintendo to Sony, so it's certainly not out of the question that it could happen again.



If there free I'll try them. maybe well see one at vgx



I was already excited for all the other games for the x1 coming out in 2014, I forgot about LLondon's.
The future looks pretty great.



E32014 is going to be amazing



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Nice, more games!



tuscaniman99 said:
E32014 is going to be amazing

You hyped for Zelda WiiU too?? =P



so they are developing 3 AAA games that's better than AAA. What a an arrogant studio spilling a bunch of *******.



ktay95 said:
tuscaniman99 said:
E32014 is going to be amazing

You hyped for Zelda WiiU too?? =P


Yeah I'm hyped to see it but I won't buy a WiiU until it drops in price by $100 at least since I would only purchase 5-6 games for it. I'm more hyped to see Halo, Quantum Break, hopefully Black Tusk Studios new game and some unannounced games.



Nsanity said:

As to what those titles might consist of, all we know is that they're free-to-play games for "connected platforms". Addressing audiences at the Develop conference this spring, Schuneman highlighted the need to "build universes that will grow with the audience and follow them onto whatever device they own".


This part is pretty interesting. I wonder if Lift London are going to be the ones that create the launch games for their AR glasses? They are supposed to come out in 2014, so it can't be long before we hear about them.



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