However, if growth is so much a part of the company's DNA, what happens when it disappears?
Users of the Mini-Microsoft blog (http://bit.ly/bjmicrosoft1) - a site run by an anonymous Microsoft manager that has become a chatboard for employees to discuss the company without divulging their identity - generally agreed that it was seriously bad news.
"I'm glad I got laid off in January," said one user. "I see clearly now that Microsoft has truly jumped the shark and is a company in a long, slow decline."
Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.
Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."
Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.
This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.
I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.
Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?
Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.
Check my comments, over a year ago I was calling out videogamer and N4G on their AI articles pushing slop 24/7
It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.
Game and advertising companies have been told to 'get their houses in order' and be more transparent about the presence of loot boxes in mobile titles.
HAHAhHAAHAA
Microsoft will over come .
wow so disgruntled employees think thier former employer will fail.
Sounds like sour grapes.
Granted I would love it if M$ failed but this is just nonsense.
NEWSFLASH: SONY and MS aren't going anywhere. No matter what happens in one hundred years from now if humans still exists so will MS and Sony.
hmm ... or they could be just pissed of ex employees looking to vent out
"The announcement marked the first time in its 34 years Microsoft had seen its business shrink from one year to the next."
Yeah, the first and ONLY time this has happened in 34 years, during a bloody recession, and people are claiming that the company is doomed and destined for failure? Uhh, if this happens 2 or 3 years in a row, particularly during a recovering economy, start asking questions why.
But lets face it, one of their biggest money makers is Windows, but the last few years Vista has been getting an absolute hammering from people (sometimes legitimately, often not, but it still all adds up) however they're on the verge of Launching Windows 7 which has, aside from the odd naysayer, had almost universal critical acclaim. It doesn't matter what you personally think about either OS, the general consensus will rule the day and that consensus is telling us that 7 is going to fly off the shelves.
Doomed indeed.