Are the days of cute platformers such as Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story gone forever? Because can we have them back, please...?
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."
I can think of 1 reason and a big one... They sold systems. Crash, Mario and Sonic. They sold systems. They were offical Mascots to these companies. They were like NFL team logo's. They could market 1 character and with that a system. It was amazing what they could get done by slapping sonic or Mario on an advert and console box.
They do need to come back for that reason.
i think sackboy will do just that for ps3
LBP is pretty much as cute as game can get. and as complex and as open, and as imaginativ and.....well it rules.
Hopefully this will mark the resurgence of the platform genre with the release of this game. Who knows, maybe developers will see the popularity of this title and start creating similar projects on their own.
New Zealand story was fantastic!! Loved those steel balloons.
Rainbow islands was cool too, but I prefered Parasol Stars. The bosses on that game were great.
Erm... regarding the question. Did cute platformers ever leave?
Paper mario? Warioland: Shake it.
In fact Nintendo has a monopoly on cute games.
cute kart racing, cute platforming, cute brawling, cute puzzle games.
Do they actually have any non-cartoon character / non-cute games?