Christopher Buffa (Indie Obscura): With E3 becoming less important each year, opening its doors to the public could revitalize the show.
AGS writes: "Winter is still with us, but great games and content are always a great excuse to stay warm indoors and we have an exciting lineup to share with players."
Inaugural Games for Change London Summit will take place on April 15, 2026.
PlayStation has scaled back expectations for Bungie after reassessing Destiny 2 development costs, highlighting the risks tied to live-service games.
Honestly Thank Goodness!! Yet another good sign of a possibility of returning to what made them great and undoing Jim Tyans trend chasing love service gamble. Still gotta wait and see just what direction they're going but this is a good sign in my book that they're not betting it all on live service anymore
Not sure what you lot are talking about anymore. They need to cover all range of games. Im primarily a single player gamer, but even I cannot be daft enough to ignore the fact that we need all manner of games including live service games. Everyone here seems to be a market expert.
Yes "all manner" not just exclusively live service like Jim was doing, but you also shouldn't be forcing devs to make games they not only have no experience making, but also flatout dont want to do.
Assuming that anything like that is actually the case and not just a perception of n4g commenters of course.
@isarai_lee
Yes "all manner" not just exclusively live service like Jim was doing.
I don't understand why you people have to keep making up lies. You can say you don't like some or most of their focus being on live service games, but to say they were exclusively focusing on live service games is pure copium. At most half of their games were live service and the rest were single player games. Seriously why lie about something so obvious?
@Redemption-64
You say that as if we don't have word directly from Jim Ryan and PlayStation stating they wanted at least 12 live service games released within a year. Followed by tons of official word of those Live Service games being cancelled after he was pushed out. All studios combined at the time PS had 15 studios, 12 is a hell of a lot more than half of 15, and it was definitely their primary focus evident by the fact that a huge portion of their studios have taken uncharacteristically long to release or announce anything since, hell some studios have yet to release anything this gen almost 6 YEARS LATER! The only one making stuff up is you.
It may take a while but maybe they are finally learning. Good! Now stop with the live service crap.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a live service here or there, but to have many of your studios start focusing on it when there has been little to no experience among them was wild.
They say this and then immediately release news of the Horizons co-op game that will definitely be a Live Service game.
I feel like they knew that given the fact that the very furst thing they say in the trailer is to reassure they still make so games 😆
I feel like they knew that given the fact that the very first furst thing they say in the trailer is to reassure they still make so games 😆
They will not. Destiny has been popular for over 10 years, something most games can never hope to achieve. Most people, including myself those Bungie was going to make a D3 after the final shape DLC. Marathon looks to be a hit and a D3 announcement could break records.
Well...I sure hope so, because it would be a shame to see E3 die out.
Save E3 from what
I don't think E3 needs to be saved, it's still a the biggest deal regarding anything games wise.
I certainly hope so. E3 is the best time of the year.
Unfortunately what's happening is that companies are starting to realize there's more return in taking the "direct to consumer" approach. E3 is a massive investment. it's very costly, especially for smaller companies.
Also, sadly, websites like NeoGAF and 4chan have created a generation of angry, spoiled, entitled little shits that literally hate everything. These folks will spend all their time shitting on everything for various reasons, whether it's because they're console warriors or because they're just miserable people. This unfortunately greatly lessens the impact and importance of E3. Why spend millions of dollars to exhibit at the show when the public is just going to say how much they hate everything. Once again we can thank NeoGAF for ruining the fun and enjoyment of gaming for everyone.
Does it matter and does anyone care