There has been a lot of speculation recently about how game reviews are biased(GTA comes to mind). While I feel these suspicions are warranted I must say that this is nothing new - its been happening in the movie industry for awhile.
Anyone who has seen the new Indiana Jones movie must know what I'm talking about. This movie was downright terrible. It has Goerge Lucas' stink all over it. The characters have no chemistry, the story is all over the place - it never ties its plot points together, and the action scenes are boring. It feels like an Indiana Jones movie directed by Michael Bay, minus the explosions and awsome action sequences.
If you are considering going to see this movie I would have to strongly suggest you save your money. This is the worst Spielburg movie I've ever seen - he totally phones this one in. It is easy to be fooled by the hype surrounding it, rotten tomatoes shows this movie got a critic approval rating of 80% - could this just be that people are sympathetic towards Steven Spielburg and this franchise - much like we are sympathetic towards GTA?
GTA4 debuted with near perfect scores from game reviewers everywhere, yet a month after its release a lot of people have put it down already. The game features enhanced next gen graphics and a multiplayer mode the likes of which has never been achieved, but I myself can't help but get that been there, done that feeling. After awhile that cutting edge feeling wears off and you feel like you're playing the same old GTA you've been playing since the PS2 days.
Now, in all fairness, GTA delivers a hell of a lot better than the new Indiana Jones, but those perfect scores weren't deserved. Now if you would ask me to compare Indiana Jones to a current game title - I would have to cite the underwhelming HAZE. That is a far cry from the 80% approval rating critics gave the movie, this rating is more on par with Ninja Gaiden 2. Indiana Jones is no Ninja Gaiden 2.
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 liked the new Indy movie