When Vista arrived, Microsoft heavily promoted the benefits the new OS would bring gamers. Gaming was to be an important fact of the new operating system's design -- not added on as an afterthought. A shortcut to a 'Games' folder was added, by default, to Vista's start menu -- right beside music, pictures and documents. The 'Games for Windows' campaign and website was launched to promote Vista as a powerful gaming platform. DX10 was made exclusively for Vista -- forcing all gamers wanting to experience the new API to upgrade to new video cards, and embrace the new OS.
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."
in benchmark tests do they still use resolutions set for 4:3 monitors? surely most people are going toward widescreen monitors now?
edit @ DarthNihilus, i realise that mate i have a 1080p tv, but no one plays games in that res, well unless you have a £5000 pc, but i mean the actually res's that gamers us, 1600x1200 stuff like that, id like to see tests on 1650x1020 and 1440xwhatever it is. i just doubt that many pc gamers now buy 4:3 monitors unless your buying like a 17" but anything bigger than that would be widescreen surely? also may have something to do with me getting a new 22" widescreen =)
I agree with douche, nowadays most of the new users are buying widescreen monitors, 19" and above so they should also address them. I have 19" WS monitor and would like to see the performance at 1440x900 rez.
If you look at the World In Conflict framerate numbers in SLI it's a little disturbing. The best cards are getting 20+ frames, though it is high resolutions. 20+ frames aren't really that impressive. Maybe when the next series of Nvidia cards come out we will get good DX10 support.