Raz Review: "I wanted to give this a 9, but issues with the tutorial, camera angles and fidgety targeting controls restrained my enthusiasm - which is nevertheless very high for this game.
Demons' Souls remembers one of the key elements that made old-school games addictive: difficulty. This game is HARD. Lots of people are saying that, and it might be discouraging to some (especially since the learning curve is brutal starting out) but if you can see past it you'll find yourself coming back for more and more. And man, is it ever beautiful. The payoff for your patience is a sense of accomplishment far greater than in any other game I've played.
It reminds me of Monster Hunter in a lot of ways, since you need special loot to upgrade your weapons, and there is an upgrade tree of sorts that lets you customize your weaponry. Armor is harder to come by, but it generally just slows you down anyway. There's magic apparently, but I haven't bothered - this is mostly about melee combat. And it ain't hack n' slash, either; you need strategy and skill to take on even the weakest opponents.
It also reminds me of that old Dragon's Lair game, because you will die countless times trying to figure out the best strategy for a given area. And of course, you lose all your Souls when you do, which can be REALLY frustrating; until you realize that there's a way to exploit this: find a tough area, build up souls, die, go back, build up more souls and grab the ones you dropped last time - voila, you've doubled your income. Now you just have to get back to the exit without dying again.
Hardcore gamers will love it. Casual gamers will either love it or hate it. People who like Prince of Persia because you can't ever really die will throw the controller at the screen in a fit of apoplectic rage."
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Rated: 8.5/10
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.
