Tag Archives: id@xbox

"An opportunity to take all the experience I’ve amassed over the last 20 years and plug it into a publisher that has developers and their goals at their heart"

Xbox's Summer Games Fest Demo Event could change the way we look at game events forever

"These uniquely crafted experiences by independent developers will stick with us forever"

As ID@Xbox celebrates another successful year, we speak to European regional lead Agostino Simonetta about making developers’ lives easier and how to find your own success.

The service, which gave us many interesting titles, closes on September 29th but purchases can still be redownloaded in future

Sean Cleaver speaks to ID@XBOX director Chris Charla and regional lead Agostino Simonetta

Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program has come a long way since it first started in 2013. While the curated self-publishing program’s first titles included smaller indie games such as Drinkbox Studios’ Guacamelee and Nicalis’ 1001 Spikes, it’s now home to some of the biggest and most ambitious independently developed titles the industry’s …

Independent developers have called Microsoft’s ID@Xbox programme hugely important” to the games industry, and have singled it out as one of the easiest digital publishing platforms to work on across all platform holders. Speaking to MCV at an ID@Xbox preview event this week, several developers were very warm in their …

We speak to Creative England's Rob Crossley about the Greenshoots indie development project

When it launched in August 2013, Microsoft’s ID@Xbox initiative marked a bold commitment to independent development by the platform holder. Three years on, what’s next for the programme?