COGconnected Writes: I was lucky enough to get a whole hour with We Happy Few at this year's E3, and it looks like Compulsion Games has made a lot of positive changes.
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."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
Just like Hellblade showed how talented Ninja Theory is this game will just show just how talented Compulsion Games are. Microsoft just got a really good studio.
It looked kinda dull in the demos I saw, and there were some concerning graphical hitches for a game this close to release. I know they pretty much changed the whole game because the alpha was lacking to begin with, but I don't know that they got it done.
This reminds me of the original Bioshock which was one of my favourite games ever
I’m actually happy the survival aspects were toned down. If it’s more like Bioshock now then that will be a purchase for me.
I played the early access and while it looked cool and the premise was great I didn’t know what to do. It was kinda pointless. A great narrative could be a win for this game.
I’m still curious about this one. Will it be nothing but running and hiding, or will there be more action elements to it? It reminds a lot of Bioshock, so it’d be pretty cool to have some fun weapons as well