Hello, everyone! Happy E3, one of the few Gamer Holidays of the year.
E3 is a busy time, especially during the specific conferences. So, I'm ging to pop in here and give you some reminders on how things work and what to expect.
1. Everyone wants to be first, but that doesn't mean beating others with one or two sentence submissions. We will immediately fail submissions that do this and wait for someone to put up something of worth and showing a sign of effort.
2. Again, we know you want to be first, but placeholders? Yeah, do that, and you will likely see a restriction. You somehow have a submission that started before an actual announcement? Not good.
3. Many submissions that add a little bit of news to an existing submission will be noted as needing to be added as an alternative source. Determination of this need will be made by the moderators as usual. This isn't anything new, but with the many submissions being made, felt it was important to emphasize.
4. We allow you to rip trailers from the streams when official videos are not already available. But realize that as soon as those videos are available from an official source, we'll be swapping those in. We'll make sure to keep you as credit URL.
5. Screen grabs of press conference videos will not be allowed as their own content element (screenshots or images). If it's a trailer and you just post screen grabs to get the content to N4G before the trailer gets here, it will be failed. If it's screen grabs that you are using to emphasize a bit of news, that is fine.
6. Official announcements posted to Xbox.com, the PS Blog, or similar sources may be edited into existing submissions as credit URLs.
7. Roundups aren't allowed. We get it's helpful to your users, but N4G is an aggregate site, we already round up the news on our site. Also, please don't try and 'sneak' them through as opinion pieces that aren't really opinion pieces, that only annoys us.
8. No posting your own site as a source for a stream or for a chat during the streams. This falls under the spam headline here since you're really just promoting your site and not the official streams. We encourage users to go to where they feel is best for them, though. We will post some user blogs to discuss the streams as well as links to the official sources and others, that's all we will be allowing.
9. During conferences, we likely won't be responding to PMs or tickets. We're busy. But, we'll try to get to you eventually. This is a busy time.
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.
Excellent recap
Thank you for the update.
I know I'm not perfect in Submissions or Approvals, but I'll be doing my best to 'unofficially' help out as properly as I can.
Good luck.
Question: I've seen this happening before, sites like IGN'S would post a recently announced news and it'll be explained in a 2 line paragraph with 'More To Follow' under it.
Am I allowed to submit those?
Yeah have fun guys with the mad rush trying to submit things first before everyone else.
Yeah I'm not doing that lol., E3 is like the Black Friday of N4G, but for submitting news