ThisGenGaming says "Sony announced their PlayStation Plus free games lineup earlier today and as usual people are unhappy with the results. This month on PS4 Plus members get the brand new Dead Star plus Zombi which was originally a Wii U launch title from Ubisoft. The game finally made it’s way to PS4 and Xbox One late last year. On PS3 both I Am Alive and Savage Moon are free. Finally on the Vita members get the brand new A Virus Named Tom and Shutshimi which is also free on PS4 since it is Cross-Buy. I personally look at this lineup and say there is no reason to be angry."
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
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
It's an okay month if you look at it through a lens where you don't compare it to the month that the competition has lined up
It's solid. They have a lot of old AAA titles that they can easily offer though.
I feel like the author doesn't actually understand the complaints, which is an issue, especially in an article like this.
Look, a big part of the issue people have is that PlayStation Plus has been offering lower quality games than before. April 2015 gave us Dishonored and Killzone Mercenary, April 2014 had Velocity Ultra and Batman: Arkham City and April 2013 introduced Demon's Souls, and Malicious, where as April 2016, well, you spend much of the article discussing how Zombi is technically a AAA title, so we should be happy we got our wishes. Thats a massive downgrade from previous years where people would be like "awesome Batman" or "I've always wanted to try Demon's Souls." Worse yet, I'm not even cherry picking. I literally just looked at the offerings of past years and found multiple awesome titles, because thats how Plus was and what people remember. A service that offered a lot of really cool and easily recognizable games. Even if you think Velocity and Malicious are garbage, very few will agree that Demon's Souls/Batman/Killzone Mercenary were bad additions.
In addition to that, you spend a fair bit of time criticizing Sherlock Holmes and Thief, but you do realize these were both Plus games? This also clues into some of the negativity people have. Sony gave the last-gen versions of each, where as M$ at least gave the current-gen. Obviously neither is exactly spectacular, but if I had my choice of PS3 or 4, I would choose 4 and I think a lot of people are in agreement here.
These are the major issues people have. One of a program that is declining in quality, with some people touching on how the other is improving, but its mostly the decline that people remember. We've quickly gone from the days where we would get multiple awesome titles (May 2013 gave Blazblue CSE and Sleeping Dogs, June 2013 gave Deus EX, Saints Row the Third, Zero Escape, Uncharted 3, Xcom and LittleBigPlanet Karting and July 2013 had Battlefield ) to just a lot of okay titles (Helldivers, Persona 4 Arena, and Dragon Age Origins).
TL;DR The issue isn't this month or how people think so little of Zombi that you need to spend half an article explaining how it's a AAA title, but rather Plus has been going down hill and more people are becoming vocal about it.
PS+'s April 2016 sure does pale in comparison to past Aprils
People are still gonna complain when Sony gives the AAA either they already own or they don't like.
I'll keep having fun watching gAAAmers here supposedly cancelling their subs over free games