Many games: Microsoft reported on the success of Xbox Game Studios this year

Microsoft Corporation spoke about the latest achievements of the Xbox Game Studios team. The publisher has released a record number of in-house games and other important milestones this year, Xbox chief marketing manager Aaron Greenberg said.

So, to date, 15 games from Xbox Game Studios have been released, 10 of which are completely new projects. This number includes not only Battletoads, Bleeding Edge, Gears Tactics,grounded, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Minecraft Dungeons, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, The Bard's Tale Remastered, Tell Me Why, and Wasteland 3, but also the upcoming Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (October 15), as well as the PC versions of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo 3, and Halo 3 : O.D.S.T.

“And a lot more to come,” Greenberg added. In July, at the Xbox Games Showcase, the platform holder announced 5 new projects: As Dusk Falls, avowed, Fable, Forza Motorsport и State of Decay 3. In addition, during the year, users spent 1,66 billion hours playing games from Xbox Game Studios - this is also a record value.

Microsoft Flight Simulator, the corporation's oldest supported franchise, was the highest rated PC game this year with 92 points out of 100 on Metacritic. On Xbox One, critics rated Ori and the Will of the Wisps the most highly - on the same Metacritic in Metroidvania 90 points. Obsidian Entertainment's Grounded sandbox quickly passed the 1 million player threshold, while Sea of ​​Thieves has attracted over 15 million gamers to date. The turn-based RPG Wasteland 3 was also noted. It not only earned positive reviews from fans of the genre and won the award at gamescom in the nomination "Best RPG", but also achieved an average rating on Metacritic 86 points.

Other achievements include:

• Microsoft Flight Simulator players have already taken over 26 million flights and logged over 15 billion kilometers, an average of 2019 times more than the number of actual flights taken worldwide each day in 40. This is also enough distance to travel around the world more than 000 times;
• Minecraft Dungeons had 6,9 million multiplayer sessions in the last two months, nearly two-thirds of which (4,4 million) were co-op;
• There are over 500 million bugs already smeared in Grounded, but there are over 10 quintillion insects in the world, so players have only exterminated 0,000000000005% of them.

Source:

• Xbox Wire

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