As the community of Newtown and the nation struggle to make sense of the devastation, gun control, mental health issues and violent video games have all been called into question. Groups like Sandy Hook Promise call for a ‘national conversation’ and President Obama is rolling out plans to curb gun violence, but the search for solutions on how to avoid a repeat incident remains.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
"gun control, mental health issues and violent video games have all been called into question"
I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of these things is not like the other...
I have been playing violent games for years now, and certainly started earlier than I should have but I have no violent tendencies and for the most part am of a calm and collected demeanor.
If your calling violent games into question then I insist you do the same with music, art and film, or any other media that may be deemed to be glorifying violence, if you're not prepared to do that then leave games out of it.
Now i want a chainsaw in the last of us >:D
We need psychotropic drug control!!!! That is the main suspect for many of these school shootings. These drugs are Zofloft, Ritalin, Prozac, Xenex, and many other anti depressants. Go to the website cchr.org, the Citizen Commission on Human Rights. These guys show proof with many video to watch about this. Its Epidemic that is worldwide, not just in America. This stuff go as far as Nazi Germany and further back middle age England.
i think all of this gun control,game control and mental health is getting out of control...i believe people want to kill and they blame it on video games, access to guns or they have a headache they hear voices......i know people that are on anti depression meds and they are still upset...anti pyschotic meds that are still "crazy and snap at any min"
When I was a child, I was violent. In school I would snap at nothing, throw desks and I was a threat to anyone else around me.
Nothing worked for me, not meds, not therapy, not anything.
It wasn't until my early teenage years that I figured out that I needed an outlet, Reading helped, but games are what really let me sit down and focus and deal with the confusing emotions I was dealing with.
It's not that I used them to escape my issues, I used them to help me calm down and focus and address them. Whether I was playing a calm non-violent game like Pokemon or causing full blown mayhem in GTA video games saved me from my anger and the future I would have had.
To me these arguments seem more like pointing the finger because no one has anyone else to blame. It's not that games cause violence, hell they prevented me from winding up in jail.
It's just the people, if you're more prone to violence you can be set off by anything and trust me I know. I once destroyed my entire classroom because I thought the person next to me was talking about me.
Like I said, video games saved me from that, and if they did that for me I have to believe they did so for others as well.
-Edit- Sorry with all these posts now about violence and video games I just felt I had to say this.