Valve recently pulled over 170 junk games from Steam. But how did those games even make it through the approval process? Why can't Valve properly maintain its storefront?
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
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 have to agree people give Steam a free pass for some reason, I never really liked the service but just tolerated it, I think as they got bigger, quality control just went out of the window. If only another good service like GOG became more popular and gave them some strong competition.
The rot starts at the top, lookin at you Gabe.
no matter what digital store: they all have to get cleaned up sooner or later because of people. there is a huge portion of people who just want to cash in, no matter what. they are pulling a nintendo stunt by releasing no-efforts in order to make some bucks. the more popular a store gets the more of such non valeurs will show up.
but instead of voting with their wallets people click on such crap. i really couldn't care less. but obviously there must be a market.
yea, the store sucks. cant find good games wit atleast sifting through pages of dlc's, duplicated games (for some reason), and the amount of horrible tags that seem to take away too many games.
They really need to update that shit.
The only way i find the games i'm interested in is using google, or other game selling sites like g2a.
The only reason those games were removed is because they arent even meant to be played. Lets just calm down people, steam is still overall pretty awesome.