What a difference a decade makes.
Back in the late-'90s, Microsoft was widely regarded as the biggest bully in tech -- and understandably so. Commanding unbeatable market shares in operating systems, computer gaming, and web browsing, Gates and Co. were able to rule the Silicon Valley playground from Redmond, Washington -- choosing who it lends its toys to and who even gets to play at all. Development was sloppy, support fell by the wayside, and user requests were barely noticed.
While Microsoft still leads in the computing sectors, its persistent consumer neglect over the last few years has led much of its fan base away to greener pastures -- mainly to a company that claims to hold convenience and usability as its highest regards. The thorn in Microsoft's side for years is currently referred to as the company to beat, the one with the muscle, the leading name in tech.
And now, Apple (AAPL) is well on its way of becoming the headstrong, yet vulnerable Microsoft of the late-'90s.
With its Google grudge match, FCC investigation, App Store dictatorship, and senseless product abandonment, Apple has adopted the similar air of untouchable superiority -- dictating which companies and products pass through its walls at the expense of accessibility and, ultimately, the user.
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.
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.
nope wrong, Apple is more reliable and has better customer service than M$
Crapple, raping your wallet since the beginning of time.
overpriced equipment with pretty boy looks but often lacking substance underneath. Take the iPhone, touted as the worlds greatest phone but with a poor camera, no video and no mms capability until very recently plus the bluetooth connectivity is awful as it is locked to only other apple products
In the UK their laptops are massively expensive and you need to fork out even more to get a reasonable spec
Ah yes something that we can all agree upon. Ive never bought an Apple product in my life because its rotten to the core!! They release over-hyped and over-priced products that offer only aesthetic design with little innovation (except for its OS). I will never be stupid enough to buy one so people can say that i am in the "IN" crowd, which is also a stupid reason for buying a product. I buy products based on reliability and performance.
Thank God for Linux. I don't have to buy anything. lol.