ISM: About one month ago I built my 1st gaming PC. I had been hoping to build a PC for a long time and I finally got my chance. My PC runs great, but during the process I was paranoid and nervous primarily because I thought my $1000s in PC parts would be fried if I hadn't taken the right precautions.…
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."
Solid rig, nice choice on mobo too as he can drop another GTX 460 in it when he feels he needs it in 2-3 years.
Now overclock the crap out of it :)
Whilst I have a gaming PC myself and am always glad to see people upgrading, this is not a news story. We shouldn't be reading about one guy who's excited about his shiny new computer and chooses to wrap it in some vague pro-pc gaming sentiments and passing it off as a news story on N4G.
This belongs on your personal blog, TeenGoten.
Your position at ISM is irrelevant. If this was an editorial about the merits of PC gaming, then I would understand.
But as it stands, this is a personally-relevant post about your computer you're building with a couple sentences about PC Gaming and it doesn't have enough editorial substance to belong here. It's really easy to abuse the N4G submission system "accidentally" or under the "article" rule, and people do care when that happens. Well, I do at least.
sli is a waste in most cases, coming from a dual 285 gtx owner, you better off buying the best single gpu you can afford, there are not many games designed for sli or crossfire configs, most rarely utilize it.
There are very few games, percentage wise, that support sli fully.
a 470 would have been a better choice with a cheaper cpu, cpu gains are SHOCKINGLY small, same wiith ram, the single most important component is the gpu, skrimp on the rest if you must, never the gpu, honestly the 460 is about the same as the 260, slightly better, a 480 would have been really sweet with slightly cheaper cpu and ram
hey, to each their own/
Vive la PC and welcome to the community!