Gamasutra:
"Infinity Ward director of communications/community manager Robert Bowling has angrily attacked Activision producer Noah Heller over comments made in a number of interviews for the imminent Call of Duty: World At War, apparently displeased about Heller's competitive instinct -- which the latter recently described to Gamasutra as "gratifying."
Writing on his personal blog, Bowling let fly a torrent of abuse in an entry entitled "Noah Heller – Stop Doing Interviews…" Bowling's furious comments relate to references made to Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in articles ostensibly about World at War.
"Come on man, interview about your game. Not OURS! Call of Duty: World at War can stand on it's own merits, leave ours out of it," states Bowling (original emphasis and spelling)."
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
I see why he is pissed, cause they are trying to use the success of COD4 to boost COD5. instead of relying on their own work they are relying on old rep of cod4. COD4 is awesome and these bastards just got lucky to use the same engine and make new skins and levels and weapons. i think if they were going to just use the same engine and get the easy eay out they should have just let infinity ward do it cause it was their engine and they did all the hard work on it. Treyarch is nothing but second rate hacks that are riding the successes of infinity ward to the bank.
if they were confident with what they have made they could rely on it but they know they have nothing original to show us.