Hooked Gamers writes: ""A permanent internet connection is required to play the game." The sentence is stamped in bold white letters on the front of Assassin's Creed 2. A variant of the phrase graces the back of the box, headlining a list of features including "No need for cd/dvd to play," "Unlimited installs," and "Saved games are synchronized online," as if Ubisoft is doing us a favor by requiring a permanent internet connection. But we all know that's not true."
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."
Ooh, okay. If you say so. I mean, it's not like they're giving us a s**tty a** boring game with last-gen-only graphics after 6 months of it's original release date on consoles, and then expect us to pay $10 more for it while deliberately forcing us to maintain constant net connection on a single-player game and still not allow us to keep our saves.
Besides, shouldn't the title be called, "Why I take money from Ubisoft to defend them in my boring articles."?
Why should loyal customers take the punishment for the pirates, when it's the pirates who actually get a free pass?
DRM does not makes sense. DRM punishes the loyal customers while pirates can play the game free.
PC games but I thought PC players were all fine with STEAM and such...isn't UBI just offering the same thing without the need of STEAM?
Steam isn't safe anymore, just like DRM and things like that. I think DRM is safer then Steam, but much users hate DRM cause of the problemes it has. You have to be online constantly for instance. I can understand why Ubisoft uses systems like that, cause those illegal pirates just are too arrogant to pay for what they play and what devs worked for.
If they hacked WoW they'll hack this system and I hope to god every PC gamer with a variable connection or like to PLAY on launch pirate this game.
I am not condoning piracy but I dislike companies who treat people who BUY their games like scum.
Seriously this won't stop piracy, a pirate usually doesn't pirate because the they can, it's because they can't afford the game. This DRM may stop people downloading it for a month but it won't mean they'll buy the game.