Raz Review: "The storyline and cinematics behind Heavenly Sword are
solid; engaging, ambitious, and of course you have the amazing
celebrity talent of Andy Serkis (Gollum, from LOTR). It's all MOCAP, so
the characters are incredibly lifelike in their expressions, body
language and movement. Here we start to see a bit more of what the PS3
hardware is really capable of.
Gameplay is very similar to God
of War; run around in 3rd person view slicing and dicing your way
through entire armies. It's a bit different, in that there are two
storyline characters to play (Kai and Noriko) with different abilities;
an 'aftertouch' effect that lets you control projectiles in flight; and
several button-sync cinematic sequences.
Graphically it's
amazing, the script is fantastic, and all in all it's a beautiful game;
my only complaint is that it is surprisingly short (only 6 campaigns).
Online: No
Rated: 8/10
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.
