Role Playing Game. First Person Shooter. Platformer. Sports. Fighter. Football. Racer. Third Person Shooter. Action. Adventure. Horror. Genres are a way of classifying a game. It's a simple label that speaks volumes about what a game is. Or it was.
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."
Maybe a little. Military FPS. FPS with RPG elements. Sci-fi FPS. So many shooters.
Sadly, but they shouldn't be. Grenres existed to make it easier for us to find a game in our genre. Now it's all just shooters with different elements, action, or fighting.
I hope not. Though I will admit there does seem to be less varied games and genres now than there were about a decade ago. :(
Well, you have all the sub-genres, that tie genres together, and all the experimental games that mix elements from several genres to create a new genre. That's innovation, so there's nothing negative about that. Now, the function of genres is little else than labeling product so we more easily can manouver selections of games according to tastes, preferences, etc. and I'd dare say that "puzzler" or "fps" still offers the information it did ten years ago, even though you now find more of the latter category, and even though you may find the lines between genres to be blurred out.
Part of me blames gamers who stick to the basics, part of me blames some of the devs and console makers who arent willing to take a punt on less popular genres for varying reasons. Its a vicious circle almost. Dont complain about cod whilst being too scared to try something like alan wake, heavy rain or under the knife for example. Saddest thing is many people now judge games on how much they sell like the game selling more or less made any iota of difference to my personal experience. Devs are under pressure to produce better results so as far as they're concerned they're just doing their jobs if they keep it tried and tested.. Minimal effort and greater rewards and all that. Lets not slate and shun away from the oddball games because all we're doing is boxing ourselves into a corner of less variety. Some of my best gaming experiences came from games that didnt to gt numbers and long ago these things didnt even register to me. I just game'd. I did learn that sales, marketing, management etc were important after I found out clover studios had to close but whilst i was playing okami i knew nothing of the inner workings of the industry just game'd. what im saying is that some games need to just get bought and the hardest ones for people to drop x£s on are the less popular genres. Review scores is another issue that often hurts the industry but thats another couple paragraphs