Gaming needs its flagship back: and Keigh-3 ain't it.
This reminds me of Gameworks and sounds really fun. F1 Arcade (F1Arcade.com/us/), the world’s first premium F1 entertainment experience, today opened its first US location in Boston Seaport.
Cool , only a 20 minute ride for me. I am going to check it out . I hope they have a lot of retro Arcade cabinets. Now that Mary Jane is legal in Massachusetts it would been awesome if they served Edibles at the bar also. I once played music and promoted a EA Madden tournament at a nightclub in Greater Boston in 2003 . Only problem is hardly anybody drank booze because between games most of the crowd would just go out to there car and smoke weed . So it would be awesome if they got a weed license to at least serve Edibles.
It's time to add two more games to your library for free from the Epic Games Store.
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.
Perhaps for a gaming journalist, or those who frequently attended these events in person, no E3 feels like a loss of some kind. For me, even as a keen game news reader, it changes little. Sure, we'll miss neat little moments where crowds go wild over an announcement, maybe lessens the chance for cringe, things like that. But I'm simple. I've always been more interested in talking about reveals and stuff with friends, I don't need much bombast.
This also allows a lot of smaller devs/pubs to be able to host their own announcements more easily, and without the huge cost of getting there, getting a booth, spiffing it up, and jockeying for attention they may simply not get. I think the individual shows do the job pretty well, and at the end of the day it also allows them to be tighter with less dead air while shifting topics or locations.
I think I might have also felt more strongly about this if I was younger, when I used to get ultra pumped at game reveals and announcements. Being in my 30s, I still love games, I still love announcements and reveals, but certainly not in the same way. Ultimately, I'm fine either way. If it goes back to the way it was, cool. If it stays like it is now, cool. Just give me the games, however they come.
Agreed, it was one time of the year almost every dev came together to show off all new games coming and there always guaranteed to be big hitters.
I sure do miss it, it was always guaranteed excitement for me.
There's no need for these huge conventions anymore. It made sense when print videogame game journalism wasn't all but extinct, but we have 24/7 access to anything games related, and thousands of people covering everything videogames games, daily online.
It's also so damn easy for even the smallest studios to reach out to the masses about what is being worked on.
E3 is needless anymore.
I admit now that i miss it.. i want it to be back
Yes it’s pretty boring without E3. Definitely needs to come back.