Variety editor Ben Fritz writes:
" I don't think I ever actually noted on here that I was one of the 36 videogame writers who voted for the "Best of E3" awards announced last week, but indeed I was.
Given that I have found my taste to be a bit eclectic compared to many game writers (Last year I championed "The Simpsons Game," didn't lavish superlatives on "Super Mario Galaxy," and didn't much enjoy "Mass Effect." Though I did love "Portal" and "Bioshock" and "Rock Band" -- I'm not all completely there), it's perhaps not surprising that very few of my votes were the games that won. In fact of the 11 categories in which I voted, I only picked two of the winners. Just by pure chance I should have done at least a little better. (Those two winners were "Spore" as best PC game and "Pure" as best racing game.)
That being said, I wasn't offended by most of the choices either. "Fallout 3," "LittleBigPlanet," "Dead Space" and "Left4Dead" are all really good games with the potential, based on the limited time I got to see them, to be fantastic.
The only winner I really disagreed with was "Mirror's Edge" for best original game.
I also couldn't bring myself to vote for "Gears of War 2" for Best Action Game not because it's bad in any way, but because it's so "Gears of War 1.5.""
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."
Like we all know Gears 2 is bad a$$ but he does have a good point on Resistance 2 brining so MUCH more to the table on its sequal compared to gears 2. Both games will be great but if I had to say which game out of these 2 are, "Bigger, "Better and More Bad A$$" I would have to be honest and say Resistance 2. And all the proof in the world shows the reason why.
Whilst you may want to disagree with him on matters of personnel taste, its a good read and he makes some pretty valid points, many of which I agree with.
Especially his points on Fable 2, which is a title that a lot of people were excited for, but didn't get much coverage from E3. Like him, I was somewhat disappointed by the shortcomings of the original, but this time everything that concerned me looks like its been fixed, so this could well be my GOTY... I hope so anyway!
I agree with him
I didn't agree with him about Mirror's Edge...In comparison to games like Flower (which I'm not entirely convinced about), it doesn't SEEM original, but neither did Portal when it was first discussed and considering it came after Prey, it really wasn't all that original...But to me, Mirror's Edge takes it's concept and runs with it and judging from everything I've seen, it looks like it will be a breath taking game.