Pro-Gaming Life - "As the year ends, we look back to 2011 and it’s easy to conclude, pro-gaming is now mainstream. E-sports is finally here for everybody on the planet not just in South Korea. I know it. You know it. With at least 71% of the US population alone playing a video game on various platforms, the chances that somebody you meet (from as young as 5 years old to the not so young 40 year olds regardless of sex) doesn’t know about pro-gaming is dwindling exponentially."
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."
How can there be a battlefield 3 tournament worth 1.6m
The winners (or rather, losers) will be decided by the bugs lol. As much as I would love for BF to be competitively possible (because I would certainly be involved if I could find a team) I think DICE should at least program it properly first. Even pro CS players are enraged by the few small, rare, bugs that are in CS which can completely break a match.
Anyway, I still wouldn't call pro gaming mainstream as most people still seem to think it's a joke (because most TV broadcasters ignore it, and they seem to be in charge of people's minds these days). But in a generation or so, gaming will be the largest entertainment medium by quite a big margin (it's already close in many countries) and then it could be called mainstream.
Its already a multibillion business. Hollywood already
has taken notice for better or worse. I just hope we end
up with another movie like street fighter chun li or gamebox 1.0
The "gaming" industry in general has already surpassed any other industry under "entertainment". Remember the endless Modern Warfare/COD releases that broke sales records in the entire entertainment industry? It wasn't just hollywood that took notice, it's the whole world!