Following the postponement of GDC 2020 and E3 2020 last week, Microsoft announced that they will be doing two days worth of their 'Game Stack Live' stream on Mixer, starting today.
Points of discussion will revolve around Microsft's next-gen console, Xbox Series X, as well as DirectX raytracing's impact on the graphical style of next-gen.
The Schedule has already been announced so you can check it out here to make sure that you are sat behind a screen when you need to be.
Live Schedule
With so much being cancelled, postponed or delayed last week, March was looking like an extremely quiet month for next-gen news.
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Starting at 10 am, a whole host of talks and discussions will be available on the Mixer live stream.
Day 1 - 17 March, 2020
10:00 Welcome to Game Stack Live!
10:25 How The Coalition built Gears 5 to be more accessible
10:45 Building accessibility into your game - the Xbox Accessibility Guidelines
11:00 Panel: The changing nature of today’s game industry
11:35 Panel: How to be intentionally inclusive in your game design
12:15 What is Microsoft Game Stack?
12:30 The Importance of LiveOps
13:00 Rare: Building Sea of Thieves with a LiveOps Mentality
13:35 What it means to run a game studio – a conversation with Turn 10
14:00 Maximizing impact and reach for your independent games with the ID@Xbox team
Day 2 - 18 March, 2020
10:00 Previously on Game Stack Live 10:15 How inXile used creative iteration to drive Wasteland's development
10:40 Panel: How online services are defining the next generation of game development
11:40 Xbox Series X + Project xCloud = New Chapter in Gaming
12:40 The spark of creativity that drives Double Fine
13:20 What’s new in DirectX: Raytracing, mesh shading, and more
Everything else
Other points of discussion will include:
Video game accessibility, indie dev support through ID@Xbox, lessons on operating a ‘live service’ style game, how Double Fine manages to stay creative and a talk from InXile on creative iteration during development on Wasteland.
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It would be great if there was a way for attendees to participate via chat, creating some form of Q&A session, but we don't know what to expect.