Charles Onyett: My second-playthrough sword-and-shield warrior in Skyrim is nowhere near as powerful as he should be. My Sith Sorcerer is only level 31. Everything I've built in Minecraft is a work-in-progress. 2012 doesn't care. It just shows up, right on schedule, gets drunk, pops off some colorful explosives, and teases me with yet another year of promising PC games. I need a break, damn it. I need some time to do things like, you know, eat dinner and sleep.
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."
PC gaming will rule every year...for PC gamers.
That's the thing. The PC is so far ahead in a lot of ways (graphics, physics, size of game worlds) and it is so far ahead in so many genres (western RPGs, FPSs, turn-based strategy games, RTSs, etc) that if you like PC gaming, then every single year you will like PC gaming more than console gaming. I mean, if someone likes MMOs and RTSs, it's not like that person is ever going to pick consoles instead of PCs.
However, if you prefer fighting games, racing games, third-person games, platformers, and JRPGs, then you simply have to play those on consoles/handhelds because PC cannot compare.
PC gaming will dominate my purchases by far and I have all the consoles
yep I have all the consoles to play the few exclusives, everything else I play on the PC now.
It keeps getting bigger. Steam peaked 5 million users online recently.
Not to mention the graphics gap starting to widen on the multi-plat games...however this comes down to developers, will the likes of Hitman be optimised for the console or pc?