With Bloodborne turning seven years old this week, Dark Souls 3 turning six, and the series as a whole in its 13th year, this seems like the perfect time to take a step back and marvel at the unlikely success of a franchise seemingly hell-bent on doing the opposite of what we have been conditioned to expect from a modern AAA franchise.
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.
Different is a hard sell in AAA space. It wasn’t a hard sell or different for From. It’s their bag. I agree personally but the millions of dollars that flow through don’t think like us. Them trying to be different is copying From.
I dont think its that different now in 2022 seeing as the souls games have created a lot of imitators and clones.
Elden ring has taken taken it in a kind of a bold new direction with the open world, and freedom to tackle challenges in whichever order you want.
Im almost certain my playthrough of the game will be totally different to someone elses which is cool as it creates discussion.
Fs is in a great spot right now as sure people can try copy the frame work.
But the art direction and feel of the games, no one will be able to match.