Let's face it, video games are demonized all across the board aside from the gaming industry themselves. Usually it's because some idiot either can't tell the difference between reality and virtuality or simply because he wants something to blame his behavior on. It is a sickening action that just makes other forms of media less welcoming to their younger brother.
Let's think for a second about one of the biggest media wars recently: The Medal of Honor debacle. As a game, Medal of Honor was good and the inclusion of the Taliban as the main enemies was a very ballsy move. On the other hand, you had newspapers, news stations, politicians, etc. that were downgrading such a brave game and helped Danger Close to pull out the fact that the Taliban were in multiplayer to replace it with "Opposing Forces". Meanwhile, we're still becoming demonized and heartless people who don't care about the feelings of those in the Middle-East.
As has happened for years. You have pretty much yearly killings in which the murderer blames Grand Theft Auto. You have minigames in-game (Hot Coffee much?) that allows the other media to call us perverts.
But what pisses me off the most is this: action movies have everything. Gratuitous swearing, gore, nudity, sex, alcoholism, smoking, vandalism, massive amounts of killing, and much more yet games are supposed to be "cleaner". Why the hell should we be? Because it's interactive? What does that matter? You're just destroying polygons or f*cking them.
Then you have the people saying "kids shouldn't play M games". While I agree to a certain extent (What's with all the 8 year-olds in Black Ops?), that's the parent's decision, not GameStop's and it sure as hell isn't the US government's. As far as I know, Parliament isn't constantly whining about games in the UK, so WTH?
In the end, everything "gaming" is being shunned and people are trying to push laws to block gaming from certain age groups or states or whatnot. Quite frankly, it's pissing me off.
Best said in the words of James Rolfe (with unbleeped language, folks): "And THAT'S what's bullshit."
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.
