My first suggestion for news submissions would be to make it mandatory for contributors to approve or disapprove every single story. Yea, I know it sounds like a lot but things would actually go more smoothly in my opinion. A lot of stories don't reach N4G because its not even bothered with. The bulk of of the stories are mainly controversial. Which has its ups and downs. It would also help to make it mandatory to provide a html for the act of disapproving duplicate stories. Other nice additions to the site would be , when logged in you can be prompted when you have received a PM. Or telling users how many new messages are in their inbox. If anybody would like to chip in feel free to...........And one last thing good job N4G staff and contributors! And I hope it only gets even better.
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 couldn't have said it better myself mate! Although rather than forcing contributors to approve EVERY story there should instead be a daily minimum requirement otherwise you start losing points.
Also, to force less popular stories to be approved/reported quicker, you shouldn't be able to choose which stories to approve. Instead you should be given a random list of stories that you're allowed to approve or report on. And how about keeping the contributor's name anonymous until the story's approved so that there's no immediate bias when you're looking at it?
The duplicate stories HTML link idea is also a must have feature. It's so annoying not being able to find a story that you've apparently duplicated, let's see the evidence!
It shouldn't be too hard to have the number of unread messages in your inbox at the top of the page where your user name is, and how about having your gamerscore there as well?
Finally, why aren't Blogs shown in the same way as articles, i.e. a Title and Description. Why does the ENTIRE article have to be shown when you go to the Blogs section?! How does N4G even know how popular a particular blog article is if you can read it without even having to click on it?! And why can't popular blogs appear on the front page?
I'd love to know whether the N4G staff are actually reading this, cos they should. I know the site still has the "Beta" word at the top so hopefully they're gonna unleash a whole new set of features soon!
Cheers.
While I won't say all the ideas you have are pressing NEEDS, I would like to see PM's being able to be managed better. One additional thing is perhaps better integration between the forum and main site profiles.
"A lot of stories don't reach N4G because its not even bothered with" situation is slowly changing in my opinion. There are too many lame, duplicate, and old stories nowadays on N4G (could be the result of the May contest,I think). Also, making it mandatory for contributors to approve or disapprove every single story is simply too much to ask. I think contributors should only get points if they summit good material.