As many were expecting, like it or not, the Black Ops launch was one of the largest, most anticipated multi-platform releases of the year. Certainly, each community spent the evening in a surely different, yet similar manner. Some great, some well, not so great, like the Gamestop in Baltimore that got held up at gunpoint. The thieves making away with several consoles and a hundred or so copies of Black Ops.
Regardless, I did not pre-order Black Ops, but I did offer to take my younger brother to pick up his copy. He had went to our local Gamestop when they opened at 9am to pay off the game and get his number for the midnight release. Thankfully he was number 4. So we left feeling pretty confident that we'd be in and out when midnight came around. Needless to say we get back at about quarter to 12am and there must be at least 500 cars in large plaza that Gamestop shared with several other stores. There was a Sahlens hot dog stand and many US Army and Marines all decked out in there uniforms, a few of which were friends of mine. So my bro and I head to the front of line and retrieve his copy. Upon exiting we run all the way down the line yelling "number 4!" while being booed by some of the people in the 200-300 ticket range. The drive home was similar to that of Nascar with people flying out of the Gamestop parking lot. I'm sure the local authorities had a field day pulling people over that night.
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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.
Midnight launch, with my neighbor.
Man I had fun that night, rushed home and played black ops.