The scapegoat of the media gains some support amongst Canadians. Can Canadians get any cooler? Libraries across Toronto are collecting money to start bringing in more children– but it's not books they are after.In an attempt to draw more children into the public educational facilities the Toronto Public Library sought after $300,000 to start a gaming program across eight different branches. The motive? To enforce reading and literacy skills through video games themselves.
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.
Good Job on this Alpha Male. I believe that playing certain types of video games like Mario Typing from back in the day would educate children greatly. I do not see why libraries shouldn't accept video games as a entertainment / education medium, because it is one. They may not be able to keep up with the financial aspect to supporting the latest titles, but all games are a valid media. Just like with books there is fiction, non-fiction, educational, and adult/mature.
Dance Dance Revolution is being used to help out Physical Education programs, I think if this was done well libraries could benefit. The right type of game for the right type of education being applied is key.
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Canada, one of the coolest place on earth.