Now that the dust has settled, it's time to look at the week's biggest winners and losers.
Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.
Tom Lee, Creative Director, Team Ninja: "We’re excited to announce that The Two Masters DLC for Ninja Gaiden 4 will be released to ninjas of all skill levels on March 4, 2026! This story-driven expansion continues Yakumo and Ryu’s battle against fiends that once again threaten to take over the world. After completing the main story, players will unlock new story chapters that push both characters into battles against even deadlier enemies, challenging bosses, and new trials that will test the skills of even the most seasoned master ninja."
Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."
Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.
This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.
I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.
It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.
Microsoft has the best conference, overall, however that is just in terms of presentation. In terms of games, this year's E3 just kinda came and went and I'm not rushing to Youtube to rewatch trailers or constantly refreshing gaming sites to look for new info. It came and went, there were some cool announcements and some nice in depth looks at Smash and the titles from Sony. Nintendo pretty much advertised 2019 E3 with all the missing titles this year and I'm expecting Sony to show off more of their core titles as Gamescon. Microsoft is clearly in a rebuilding the brand phase and that is commendable.
I think Bethesda did really well.
Since I only watched the MS, Sony and Nintendo my opinion will be based on those three.
Nintendo had some good games but it seemed like it was over before it started. I was really hoping to see some more from them as I have always enjoyed their approach to presentations for E3 in the past few years. But this year was underwhelming, the Mech game and Smash were stand outs but I was really hoping for some surprises like Mother 3 (finally). Unfortunately their presentation lacked and I heard that they will have some more announcements over the next three days...hopefully.
Sony's presentation was also a strange one and even though it was good it wasn't exciting. I've said in the past that games should be shown with actual gameplay at these events, unfortunately the games Sony showed all had a common theme that doesn't make for great watching, sneak, hide, sneak, hide, walk, sneak. With the exception of Spider-Man this is pretty much how a lot of Sony's game played out during the presentation. Ghosts was also underwhelming, the graphics looked great but for me being a sci-fi/fantasy guy there just wasn't anything too appealing other than the violence. But, Spider-Man on the other side was fantastic that was definitely a game I would get 1st day.
Microsoft hands down took E3 this year. They had the most to prove with the over whelming criticisms they received. They addressed all their problems on stage, acquiring more first party studios and announcing another console was in development. The games they showed off were much more impressive with their presentation too, Dying Light 2 and Cyberpunk instantly comes to mind. Their ID@Xbox game montage was very good, Gears 5 looked really good and Gears Tactics was incredible (even if only for PC), and there's a skate board game which was surprising since I had forgotten this use to be a thing, plus Battletoads, finally. MS pretty much nailed the format down this year.
Lots of games to be excited about. Most of which are multi-platform. Shadows Die Twice and Kingdom Hearts were my favorites of all shown. Really like the direction Assassins Creed is heading too. Doesn't feel like an AC game, maybe more of an RPG but I think this is good. That series needs a shakeup.
sony had far better games %70 of the games microsoft showed i can play on my ps4
None were great, Sony did that lil bit better, Ninty only had smash and Xbox had a ok E3