Jimmy The Greek writes, "Quality of Games. This might be a mute point with the recent statement made by John Riccitiello saying they will ax at least one title a year. Now I've gotten that out of the way, let's find a particularly raunchy floating turd on the list of shittiness.
Superman Returns. I love the Man of Tomorrow just as much anybody, if not more, and there hasn't been a single good game with Superman in it. It's a testament to their arrogance to think they could actually make one. They tore a page out of the book of Spiderman 2, who tore a page out of the book of GTA, and tried to make it an open world game... based solely in Metropolis. This is a serious design flaw to begin with. I'm going to flex my nerd muscles and say Superman is the protector of Earth and a decent portion of the galaxy, but add shitty graphics and character models, physics problems, repetitive fighting, and no real distinguishable threat to Supes and you have a recipe for tripe.
You know what? I can stop right there. They've released several good games and milked best selling franchises but when I think of EA published games, I think of the broken buggy pieces of shit they've released based on movie franchises. The games that take great movies and in a blatant dick move, ruined my memory of them...."
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 could not agree more!!!
Why do the EA games not run as well on the PS3 anyway?
its from rage against the machine
I'm usually in line with Jimmy's articles, but I have to disagree on many levels here. So many levels that it would take a counterpoint article which I lack the time for.
1st: Yes, Superman Returns was almost the E.T. of our generation :-) But it was so many years ago that most modern gamers have forgotten.
2nd: You may want to consider hating the average gaming consumer instead of Electronic Arts. Quite simply, if millions of people didn't keep buying the yearly Sports Franchises, EA would stop making them. Food for thought.
And as a quick aside: Tiger 09 was the first golf game I've ever played, and I was instantly hooked, to the point that I'm actually interested in the sport now.
3rd: What do you think funds the more innovative titles from EA like Dead Space and Mirror's Edge? Titles like Madden, titles like the idiotic kiddie games that we hate (but they sell).
I could go on Jimmy, but I actually have 3 enjoyable EA titles on my desk waiting to be played...
NOTE: I will say this, EA's customer service is atrocious.
In regards to the sports games, I thought I read somewhere that EA was considering a subscription model to update rosters and so forth, so it seems like they are open to new ideas.
Going in the direction of DLC might be better, that way you're not sucked into automatically paying a subscription fee, but you can pay for only what you want.