An article by Nathan McMinn.
Videogames as a medium for storytelling have often taken cues from movies, and the clearest example of this is the use of cutscenes.
Nathan asks, should games skip cutscenes altogether?
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.
All available May 5.
Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
No, but give us the option to skip the cutscenes
I hate when there's cutscenes and you can't skip 'em
With the way journalists handle Nintendo with kid gloves, and the tone of this article, I'm starting to get the feeling journalis5s, don't give a crap about story. I in many cases, cant even play through a game, without the protagonist having an atleast somewhat suffisticated Identity, and or, a reason to be playing the game, going through its journey. For instance, the witcher doesnt have thee best combat in the RPG genre(pretty darn close), but it's dialogue and story concepts, are almost movie level.The combination of its positives make it one the early 2015 games I'm most excited about.
I don't think that I'm the only one but I love cutscenes. but they should make it skippable after the first time, though.
if it not story progression dont do it. I hate seening cutscene for just characters talking. Do that it gameplay.
But for story progression cutscene is great thing.
I liked the old style of needing to sit through them the first time but having an option to skip second time around. Even just an option to pause the cutscene and skip would be nice. I love cutscenes if the story is good so I have no problem not skipping but going 2-3 times through when the second and third I want to really just play makes me want an option.