Shoryuken.ie: The public library is a bastion of all societies in the West, East, Middle East and so on. It is where we house and cherish our most beloved cultural influencers, informations and breakthroughs. Books are the traditional method of transmitting this kind of data to people, so naturally books are the most common item found in a local library. But can games survive in this form of distribution?
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."
The patrimony of video games will always be conserved through ilegal emulation so a library or whatever will not be needed ever... Unless an extreme regulation for ilegal stuff on the internet could be put into action in the future. But by then we'll be f#%$^ and the internet will suck big time, that's why we need hackers.
Video games are already in some public library systems. The only issue is that there's usually a long wait for these games and few available because not all libraries support them. Also not a lot of people think to donate games to libraries, instead they donate them to Companies.
Do a search below, there are a lot of different titles already being circulated.
http://gigcat.midhudson.org...
Halo 3:
http://gigcat.midhudson.org...
Uncharted 2:
http://gigcat.midhudson.org...
Various FF's:
http://gigcat.midhudson.org...
I work at a University and I know that our library has video games. Then again, we offer a program in computer science (video game design).
I love the library by my house. I can borrow lots of different games. I very rarely buy games now. I will just borrow the game from the library & if I really like it then I will buy the game.
That article is 10 years old late . Sure it's not the most traditional practice but plenty games and program have been archived in a few libraries .