It's true: online multiplayer is awesome. It doesn't matter what genre you're playing, but when you can test out your skills against a human mind rather than an A.I, games tend to go up another gear, becoming twice as fun and twice as rewarding. Thus it can be quite frustrating to play through a great single player story only to click across to the multiplayer mode to enhance and continue your experience and discover no one online. Or equally as bad, people online but from so far away across the planet that the gameplay turns into a debilitating lag fest.
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."
Very true about not being able to find games online for the lesser known games. You have to wonder why some of the developers bother with it. I saw that Just Cause 2 has no multiplayer... good. I'll stick to CoD online thankyou
Online multiplayer is something i prefer to avoid most of the time as its full of kids screaming obscenity down there mics and ruining the experience for everybody. I make sure I only play with friends but sometimes this is impossible. Games should start including split screen support more as there was nothing better than a night in with some food and drink 3 mates and timesplitters 2. Hell I do it today.. I prefer TS2 over all my other shooters as its hell of a lot more fun and it don't have online..
Yer it sucks with Echoes of Time. There's hardly anyone online on it and it's definitely hard to get a whole group of four together.
It's gonna come down to region regarding lag, this article is on an Aussie website. I play a lot of Metal Gear Online and Aussie players are kicked upon entry as they are lagged by a good 500ms. Doesn't help that they are classed as PAL rather than NTSC territory so as a result they suffer cronic lag connecting to european servers.
I agree with this and even though I spend most of my time doing SP I feel that I will be cheated out of a worthwhile experience if I don't jump into the multiplayer while the game is still hot and fresh. For instance I don't expect anyone to be playing Perfect Dark Zero when I pick it up today, yet it has bots and I can just relieve the N64 days of playing it that way and split screen.
Though I can see how this is a big threat to those games that pass under the radar for many people, leaving those who buy it on day one with no one to fight or anything. Which is usually sad and generally it's up to the gamer who got it to try and spread good word about it through a review and what not.