Joe McNeilly writes: "As GamesRadar's "video guy" I'm constantly babbling in technojargon about codecs and frame sizes and quantizing gamma variances in chrominance channels. I love geeking out on topics like the difference between 680p and 720p. But I really don't get all the beef about upscaling in recent popular games - it's a tool developers use to help bring you the goodness you crave. Just think, if games look this great now imagine how slick they'll be when developers figure out how to use the other 25% of their brains. I've composed this video response to you, the internets, for never being happy with anything ever. Enjoy!"
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."
"when developers figure out how to use the other 25% of their brains" is a great line.
When Anti-Aliasing is implemented, look at COD4, not HD, couple'a AA, best graphics of '07.
Halo3, not HD, no AA, looks like sh!t.
Run photoshop, open up a picture, scale it to a larger size, and then I dare you to tell me that it was effective in making it look better.
Upscaling is a cheap way of making things look just *OK* on a bigger screen.
I'd rather take native resolution output any day.
That's why I have a PS3. Native 1080p games will be much more common, starting late this year and onwards.
This is a bit offensive if you ask me. I care if my games are running at a native high definition resolution. I didn't buy this 40" HDTV so some lazy developers could decide to take the cheap and easy way out and render MY games at a sub-HD resolution! If I'm paying the full price of a game, I should get a full game. This is why I refuse to support EA and such, as them selling a file in the 10-100kb size range for $1.99 is insanity because they're just unlocking something you already paid for...anyway rant over...I just really dislike EA...
Upscaling is better for movies. Upscaling on video games creates a slight lag that might be noticeable on certain games like Rockband.