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Kongregate and AntabStudio's cyberspace hacking shoot-em-up GRIDD: Retroenhanced on Xbox One is now Xbox One X Enhanced! With the launch of the Xbox One X today, GRIDD looks better than ever, now playable in 4k UHD and HDR!
We at Kongregate are incredibly excited to be launching GRIDD: Retroenhanced on Xbox One today! GRIDD is a unique mix of anti-gravity racing fused with an old-school arcade shooter, currently with a 93% positive rating on Steam! GRIDD is Antab Studio's love letter to games, hacking movies, and cyberpunk culture that emerged from the 1980s, imagining what a hardcore coin-op game would be like if we had today's technology back in the heyday of arcades. It's Kongregate's first title published to console, and we're excited to bring more in the future! “Since crossing our ten-year anniversary in 2016, one of our main goals as a publisher has been to support our developers by offering their unique gameplay experiences across multiple platforms. Our expansion to mobile and Steam has been successful, and now we plan to continue that momentum by releasing games on consoles,” said Emily Greer, co-founder and CEO of Kongregate. “GRIDD is an exciting re-imagining of the classic arcade shooter with advanced graphics and gameplay enhancements perfect for fans of the Xbox One platform.” GRIDD: Retroenhanced is available now
While browser games remain a popular format for game development, the technology behind browser games has been changing quickly over the past few years. Back in 2013, Chrome announced that it would be dropping support for the Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) due to concerns about the browser's security, speed, and stability. Skipping ahead a bit, Chrome version 45 launched on September 1st of last year, removing support for NPAPI plugins. Microsoft's new Edge browser also doesn't support these plugins, and Mozilla recently announced that it will be dropping plugins (with the exception of Flash) as well at the end of 2016. Because Unity's Web Player uses NPAPI tech to run in browsers, all Unity games no longer load when opened in Chrome. This has been a worry for developers who are depending on Unity working in browsers to sustain themselves. If you're reading this, you probably either already have a Unity game up on web, or are considering launching one, but aren't sure if the traffic exists to support your studio. Unity's solution to this is in Unity 5, which