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Microsoft promotes Rare vet Duncan to head up Xbox Game Studios Rare boss Craig Duncan is taking over from Alan Hartman as the head of Xbox Game Studios.  GI.biz reports that Hartman is retiring from Microsoft in November, just 12 months after he took on the position initially . Duncan joined Rare in 2011 as studio head having previously worked at the likes of Sumo Digital and Midway.  In his new position, he will be overseeing all of Microsoft’s fi…

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Metaphor: ReFantazio has shifted 1m copies on its first day Atlus’ latest Japanese RPG title, Metaphor: ReFantazio has sold over one million copies since its debut.  That’s according to tweets from both Sega Japan and Atlus West, which indicate that this is the fastest selling Atlus game to date. The game launched on October 11th on PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.  “Atlas’ completely new fantasy RPG “Metaphor: ReFantasio” has surpassed 1 mil…

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Report: Microsoft letting players stream game libraries from next month Tech giant Microsoft is reportedly expanding its cloud games offering.  The Verge reports that the Xbox firm is planning to test streaming of titles that aren’t part of the existing Game Pass subscription service. Internally this is known as Project Lapland; Microsoft has been planning to scale its streaming servers to accommodate the thousands of games that will be available.   This te…