Tory from That Aussie Game Site writes, "Coming from a predominantly console playing ethos, where matchmaking rules supreme, the biggest problem I'd face would be a drunken blog editor or curse wielding junior. However, recently I've been subjected to PC gaming and its lobby system - along with it the flaws that stick out like glowing beacons of fail."
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."
Without dedicated servers, there will be more hackers and glitchers than ever before. Not to mention all the horrid connectivity issues we'll have from P2P servers.
Dedicated servers have admins and moderators which are essentially a police force against hackers, glitchers, spammers, annoying 12 year olds, etc. If they see a hacker they press the perma-ban button which bans the culprit from that server for life. Now we'll be forced to suffer. Thanks IW!
It's like asking which is better, 360 (matchmaking p2p) or PS3 (dedicated servers). Of course the PS3 wins.
Oh God. IW is getting to the young generation of gamers. They will grow up thinking P2P is the best way to play and will allow sh*t like this to spread.
Lord...
won't be long before see a variant of that in mw2
oh yeah, i wonder if host migration in mw2 will be similar to uncharted 2.
On PC I go to a nice server with nice ppl and enjoy myself. If someone comes in and cheats or causes problems they get a perma ban plain and simple. Now if I want to play a game I can't on PC like Halo 3 I'm forced to listen to some punk kid yell stupid cliche childish taunts like you did. It's all you fail laced with some terrible term directed toward black or Jewish people. Or the ever popular lets talk about my penis for a few hours... It's not so bad on most genres like RPGS but FPS have some of the worst people I have ever met. I can only speak for myself but I just don't want anything to do with being forced to play with anyone because even though 75% of gamers are fine to play with those 25% of others are so nasty they ruin whatever good time I could have had playing online. Lack of mods more players and everything else aside I just would like it to be optional not mandatory. If we could ever get to a point that games aren't plagued with weirdos and racists it wouldn't be a problem but that world may never exist. at least not in our lifetime... So make it optional IW please.