Watch the video to see G4's own Adam Sessler debate with Jack Thompson, the anti-videogame lawyer about violence in videogames.
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."
you will get a few bad apples trying to imitate what they see on TV. Look at the show jack-ass. There is alot more negativety sorrunding young adolecents these days as oppsed to a virtual reality world.
The fact is, playing videogames allows people to escape reality in some form or fashion. Yes, you do have to shoot the bad guy, stomp on his head, or blow him away most of the time but how is that any different then a Hero in a full length action flick. What about images of war we see on the nightly news. I can go on and on with real-life violence. The media should take alot of the criticism as they often do not.
All that real-life violence to me is no different, except in the virtual reality world you are the one making it happen. Who doesn't like a good guy vs bad guy video game? At the same time I think parents are also responsible for what kind of games thier children get involved in just as they should be involved in what kind of content they get to watch on television.
Have you ever heard that some of the most notorious serial murderes playing videogames and acting on them?
Where do kids draw the line of whats real and whats not? That depends on thier upbringing.
It's funny trying to blame volience in video games to volient crimes that happen. The question should be how many people are going to get this video game or rent it and then how many of those people are going to take part in a voilent crime? So silly.
I like it how the uneducated fellow tries to sound smart while "debating" an educated fellow. And Adam fails miserably. It's just horrible to watch. I bet his ego went a whole 10 points after that.
a) Parents have to take responsibility in what their kids are playing
-true, but some games even though aimed for children have violence in their roots. Ie. Ratchet and Clank... run around and destroy what ever is in the way and have fun while doing it.
Ratchet and Clank is a kiddy game, but it promotes violence.
It doesn't matter what kind of violence is promoted... either a game is g rated or m rated and still has violence it shows that violence is ok. Same with cartoons and such. And most parents don't see it. They look at the rating, animated violence, they buy the game.
2) Dev Companies use violence to sell games. No body would buy a game where you pet horsies and run around GTA like environment and just deliver mail. Y'know? Violence, just like sex, sells.
3) Children are easily influenced by being exposed to something for a prolonged period of time. So they can watch teen titans and beat some kid up at school for looking like some villain. They can watch Looney Tunes and start dropping anvils on people’s heads. You can't draw the line. Children/Pre-Teens are easily influenced. They can be brainwashed with a mars bar and chocolate milk.
No one is to blame here. Devs want to make money. Kids want to play the next baddest title out there. And parents want to enforce ESRB rating. Only people who can be put to blame are the ones that take these things seriously. Bullies have been around since the beginning of school. Violence in school hasn't stopped, ever. Geeks are being beat upon. Race is put into a factor. I mean... you can blame the civilization for not teaching its people how to respect one another.
That's who to blame, we're all fu-ked up!
BULL SH*T
The reason people are going crazy these days is because this entire world is alot more fuc*ed up than it was many years ago.
get paid from political supporters and medias outlets indorse them for publicity. It all boils down to money. Dev. want to make great games that attract us. What attracts us is violence; sex the things that make our flesh crawl. So when you see political leaders and public relations people getting all bent out of shape about video games they are just being fake to get a small amount of people and money on their side. It’s all BS. How come they do not take such a strong stand against teen pregnancy or helping the homeless? They do not get involved in the impotent issues that hare having a larger effect on our communities. They only attack popular issues of the moment to gain popularity. If video game violence was such a big issue than why do they not tackle issues that are killing us for real like WARS and political leaders using taxpayer money for personal use.