First, a brief synopsis on my gaming start. I've been a gamer since about the age of 2 thanks to my dad, from a young ages (say about 5ish,) I knew gaming was my 'calling', I'm just finishing a college coerce in programming and game Media, and am off to Uni on a gaming course in September.
Now, how it all began: In mid 2005 I was browsing lionheads game forum when I
came across a thread providing information on applying for un-paid BETA testing
(work EX). I applied and was Emailed back and given a date.
It was a freezing day in Febury 06 that I bored a bus then a train to Lionhead,
Guilford, Surrey, I then grabbed a Taxi to Lionheads office at Ocome Grove on
an industeral park, with a feeling of excitment in my stumach, I pressed the
intercome and provide my name, I walked into a hall which was lovly and warm,
Picture of games such as Back and white1 and 2, fable, theam hospital and other
Ballfrog/Lionhead games were on the walls of the corridors, I walked up 2
flights of stares and pussed open the door.
In front of my was a desk with a beautiful woman (ok, I may have had a crush on
here but she was only in her 20's). any way I signed in and filled in some legal
documents, I was then told some health and safety stuff, (1st adders, where to
go if the fire alarm goes and so on), Finally, I walked into the testing
room and met Kiernan Sleep, Nathan Smith and some other guys who’s names I
can't remember now (they've since left accept Kiernan and Nath). I sat at
the front of a computer and got my hands dirty with the movies:
After lunch, we were taken to another building and I got to Play Black and
white 2: Battle of the gods, I also saw 'Shock horror', people working on Xbox
360 dev kits (Fable 2). This continued for the week, I had some much fun that I
booked a return date straight away at the end of the week, my second visit was all Fable 2, and I spoke with some people in the BETA department, and ended up becoming a BETA tester. And that’s my story; I'm not going in to any info about other things I've seen/played for legal reasons.
Please comment on my first blog Jaime (Jay2).
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.
so you started un-paid, are you now paid?
now that you've seen some stuff from msoft I'm assuming other than fable 2, what are your takes on the future of the xbox division?
Yes, I started un-paid, and game wise in general, things can only get better during this year and next all around.
Yeah, I'm paid for my current part-time work.
and what company are you going to work for.