I can see the future, a bold statement indeed, but one I believe, and here’s what I see……30 years from now gameshops Worldwide over-run by an army of pensioners hungry for the next installment of Call of Duty (which by then is set in deep space as the Human race battle a cyborg army and everyone still camps) or FIFA 40 or Gears of War XIV : 'The nursing home years' or god forbid Quantum Theory 2 (it’s been 30 years, we hoped you’d forgotten how bad the 1st one was….no we haven’t.) I know this because as long as there’s still breath in my body i’ll still be gaming & i’m not alone.
It’s sometimes thought, wrongly of course, that playing video games is the domain solely of whiney, shouty kids or angry teenagers with a penchant for tea-bagging & verbal abuse, those 2 groups exist of course , god do they exist, (better just say not all the young ‘uns are bad news….most of them, but not all) but there’s another group out there, large in number, occaisionally quite skilled, frequently quite drunk but always having a good time…..the ‘mature’ gamer.
Gamers like myself who have grown up with video games, gamers who spent hours playing Jet Set Willy & almost as long waiting for it to load, were mesmerised by Pac Man (or in my case Hungry Horace), and sat in awe as Sonic sped across the screen in his lush green World collecting rings & looping the loop, gamers that have been playing since it all began & will be playing for decades to come, I for one didn’t sit through hours of loading screens, poor graphics & laughable sound only to hang up my controller now it’s starting to get good!!!!
Fair play, it wasn’t all bad back in the old days but jumping over barrels & climbing up ladders to rescue a princess from a Gorilla didn’t quite enthrall me in the way going on a sniping mission deep inside enemy territory in ‘Ghillies in the Mist’ did.
So look out for me in 30 years time when you head out game shopping, i’ll be the one with the Master Chief slippers, the hover zimmer and a big, happy toothless grin from decades gaming, hope i’ll see you there.
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
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.
I'm with you. I have absolutely no plans of dropping gaming. I've already been gaming for 20 years, I would be foolish to stop anytime soon :).
Nice blog. I've been gaming since I was 4/5 and I'm now 20 and have no plans to stop now or in the near future.
I'm 38 now and been gaming since the early 1980's with the ZX80/81. Even before then my parents got a cartridge game system with pong etc on it. In the late 80's I got a Commodore 64, all my friends got Sinclair Spectrum 48k's and we played hours and hours on those. Also had Sega Megadrive, PS1/2 and now PS3 and PC.
I do find a lot of older people, around my age and older are still gaming. My mother is nearly 60 and loves her DSi, she must play that at least 3 hours every day.
I probably will be gaming until I die. Its a great hobby and I love it. Age doesn't matter at all.
I remember Jet Set Willy and Hungry Horace for the Spectrum 48k.(games in the article).
Approaching the 45 and having seen my very first arcade (some 4 player pong clone, a round table with the screen let in facing up) the time I was in Kindergarten. Not going to stop gaming as long as I can hold a controller.
i'll be 17 this month and i love playing games since i was 4 , i still remember playing sega and nintenndo , i have alots of fun playing befor but now i don't , maybe because of the trophies , maybe because everything is easy for me , maybe because my brothers don't play with me like befor , maybe everything in the games are old for me and nothing suprise me , i really dunno why i don't have fun like befor T_T ....
i hope you guys continue if you have fun but i don't , i want too but i don't T_T , i don't have anything else to do that's' why i continue playing .......
i played a game on a ps2 yesterday and i had more fun then playing ps3 or xbox360 , it's really weird >.< ...... and it seems that ps2 games are longer then ps3-xbox360 games ....