Ok...so here's the deal...
I don't think anything good has ever come from that sentence when used at the beginning of a letter. And, it's no different here. Remember when I so boldly gave the prediction that I want to hit 500 trophies before 2011 hits? Well...here's the deal...As it stands, I now have 285 trophies; only 25 more than the day I posted my first blog about trophy hunting. Based on these numbers, I need to collect 1.65 trophies a day until the end of the year to make my self-imposed quota. That's up from 1.56 trophies a day as posted in my original blog. It looks like I'm losing ground. My dark passenger has been dormant for a week or two now. The drive and passion have subsided. Why? How the hell should I know? I can't always control my impulses and "urges". So give me a break. Maybe it can be attributed to the heat we had recently and I have just been to darned tired to play. Maybe it's the fact that I have been catching up on (the excellent) the first season of Mad Men. I managed to watch 10 episodes in about a week, which translates to approximately 8.3 hours of non-trophy hunting time. And let's face it, after I complete season 1 of Mad Men, I will be moving to seasons two to four. More videogame downtime.
Now, don't get me wrong, I have been trying to get trophies in this time; I just haven't been trying hard enough. I played Braid the other night and racked up four trophies, but they were just for breezing through a level without actually doing anything to beat the level. Give me a break, Braid is an outstanding game and a true puzzle of a platform game, it's just that I had no patience that night to "conquer" the levels - I just wanted to run through them to get the easy trophy without any concern about "completing" the game. Now, does that make me a trophy collector or a trophy whore?
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 just got 40 trophies yesterday including a platinum
Spaces between your paragraphs would be awesome :)
TheHater: awesome. How do you do it?
Forbidden_Darkness: You are right. Thanks for the tip.