While the qualities of what separates a good game from a great one are up for debate, Valve president Gabe Newell feels that due to the increased reliance on multicore architectures, studios with programmers that go above and beyond to push the technical envelope — like Crytek, id, and of course Valve — will enjoy an even greater advantage over the competition than they currently do.
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."
Half-Life 2: Episode 2, L4D2 etc... all look like old gen crap!
Is this dube going to take advantage of the PS3's awesome power? Is his next game going to look better than Uncharted 2 or Heavy Rain?
I serious doubt that.
Lazy Valve as so lazy they refuse to make anew next gen engine or use anyone elses...
With "Slim" Gabe around, we can expect some serious widening.
But seriously, Valve has had some decent games like L4D, L4D2, but nothing ground breaking. Where is Episode 3? Where is Half Life 3? Where is the new engine, source is 6 years old!
I'd say that valve are good, but definitely not in the upper echelon of programming any more.
Gabe loves the Double Down from KFC...
Gabe's cholesterol count is widening also
We can already see the differences between good and great programmers, via the quality of PS3 crossplats (and of course, exclusives).
He's correct that those programmers able to adapt to parallel concepts, like those inherent in the PS3 architecture, will thrive come next gen, whereas programmers stuck in the old school serial programming, let-the-GPU-handle-the-rest train of thought will be left by the wayside.