This article aims to tackle the question of whether "mature games" are indeed what they say they are or just juvenile experiences which lack actual substance for real adult audiences. This article compares the way as consumers we view film and other industries and contrasts it with how gamers behave.
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."
Whats up with these "mature gaming" articles recently? This is the second one I've seen on this topic today and it really feels like people don't understand that the rating is simply a series checks and marking off certain boxes / enough boxes gives you a specific rating. The same is also true for movies / television, so I don't see why this really needs to be explored.
Good stuff. This article spoke the truth, plain and simple.
As long as immature gamers dictate what developers create then we'll never see a meaningful amount of mature games.
1. Mass Effect, The Walking Dead, and The Last of Us DID do very well. A point this article fails to recognize, favoring emphasis on that they don't sell as well as Call of Duty.
2. The movie industry has MANY big blockbuster-action movies that feature sex and violence with simple narrative principles. They generally do excel much more easily at the box office, too. The primary difference being that the dominant view of them doesn't stem from conceited, self-professed pundits.
3. Blockbusters offer their own type of experience, that happens to be more popular, and there's nothing wrong with that.
4. "You probably are too" and comments like that are direct disrespect to the reader's point of view.
5. Incorrect spellings and poor grammar. "Theses games make you, indeed..."?
I don't see why this article is getting praise. That's telling of severely low knowledge and standards of constructive dialogue. This is on the level of a generic blogger ranting and regurgitating an article he read on another site.
Sure, but in the same manner that R-rated movies are "R"estricted to mature audiences only.