Roxanne: Everyone’s heard of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 AMA, and EA pulling microtransactions from the game not long thereafter. There’s been a lot of joy and schadenfreude in that governments across the world have started cracking down on loot boxes, and that EA’s been forced to reevaluate their practices (at least where Star Wars is concerned) because of their latest mishap. “Hit them where it counts!” is the latest mantra, with people pulling their pre-orders as the news spread. Is EA finally going to get karma for all the abusive schemes they’ve been pulling on their customers?
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.
They still might lose the Star Wars license if they piss Disney off some more. So far they have made a right hash of it and Disney are quick to give things the chop if they are not working out.
They might not be going anywhere but they have been accused of luring children to online gambling, that can't be understated. Not to mention we are seeing more and more mainstream outlets picking up on the story with some (The Guardian) directly referencing Battlefront 2 as a pay to win game,
Awwe, and here I was hoping for an article titled "Why EA Is Going Down.... ByeBye EA."
Maybe some day in the near future. One can only hope.
I doubt anyone wants EA to shut down out right, just a change in financial and creative direction for their games.