In-game ads made headlines last year when President Obama advertised his presidential campaign in Burnout Paradise. While driving along the street, you could see billboards adorned with Obama's face.
With print, TV, and Internet advertising suffering from lower rates and fewer sales, one might think that ads in video games would decline as well. According to financial analysts at Citigroup, however, there's a good chance this will not be the case.
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."
it ads to the atmosphere like in picadili square in gt5p
I remember when they said in-game ads will help to cut down on the costs of making game so that prices wont go up on them. Yet we see in-game ads and the price of games went from 50 to 60
@Labaronx
It was Microsoft who said that in order for Xbox Live to be free there would have to be Ads on it which there are so I think they should atleast lower the price if anything
If it's logical placement, I really don't care.
Things that are ok:
- Freeway signs
- Building murals
- soda beverages
- restaurants
- delivery vehicles (like a parked pizza delivery car or something)
Things that are NOT ok:
- Other games being advertised
- obvious placement such as next to a character's face in a closeup
- constant in-game references to any given product whether spoken or visual (too much is a big no-no for any advertising)
It's a good market for ads. I don't mind because ads can potentially add to the realism as in other forms of entertainment.
Just don't go crazy to the point ads hurt the product itself. I don't want to see a McDonalds in GoW.
Anyone noticed the real adverts in Prototype?
I'm not sure if it's just in the game or streamed online. But I'm in the UK, I don't have these 'Gamestops'. I can understand DC comics, due to them publishing the Prototype comic, but Gamestop? what the heck have they got to do with Prototype except selling the game in the US?