Bit-tramp writes: "I’m all for anything that helps PC gaming, and delivery of content is something that has challenged PC gaming over the last few years. But with platforms such as steam, direct2drive, GoG and now Beamdog – we seem to have hit a good point in which can be focused on due to the seemingly good business model that PC gamers have taken to extremely well. Beamdog is a service which includes a native desktop client to download, install and launch games in order to help improve the PC Gaming experience, this is a projected headed by Trent Oster an Ex-Bioware developer and Cameron Tofer a veteran of the industry."
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."
It's nice to have alternatives but the best alternative, something that's truly different (excluding Gog.com which is quite unique if I'm being fair) is greenmangaming.com
You can trade games in to the value of another game at any time you like. If Steam had this feature I'd probably not have to spend money on a game. :P
The pickings are slim but there are definitely some great games over at greenmangaming and I recommend you to bookmark it for future use (actually right now they're having a buy 1 get 1 free which is a good time to just test the site).
But about this article and Beamdog : it doesn't look like it's doing MUCH new. This is like Xfire in a way (xfire has a store now), so stick with that, or Steam (I looove Steam).