TGG says: "We interviewed Pepijn Rijnders from Sakari Games, and he had some opinions to share about the state of the videogame industry, the state of indie games and Steam as a platform to sell them on."
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
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'm impressed on how well stuff sell on the Switch. The console already have a respectable library, but even stuff that would look subpar even on a mobile plattorm like iOS or Android sell well.
The devs are right about one thing though. Steam is not the golden ticked to sucess it once was. It's a side effect of having openning up the market for any game no matter how subpar it looks. But let's be honestly, if Steam hadn't oppened it's gates we wouldn't even have this article complaining about it. Because with their level of quality Sakari Games would not be one of the developers feature in the platform in the first place.
Strange, normally when I see "something something" it means a quote....
He seems to misunderstand what wishlist numbers mean. While it does help to advertise it to the front page it also is for people to know when it goes on sale. You are not getting big numbers at launch, you get them during sale periods now. That's just how PC is. Even EGS won't fix sale counts regardless of your popularity, they just pay out of pocket instead.
goto Epic games store simple as. steam are ripping off developers. i hope more and more of the bigger games also release on epic like many of them ftp games like path of exhile etc and world of tanks
It’s evaporated water, actually.