"Killing is my business, and business was good until developers decided to take things too seriously. The past few weeks I’ve been playing a lot of old-school first person shooters and I discovered just how much first-person shooters have changed over the years. Naturally, the act of shooting is still the focus of most modern shooters -the genre hasn’t changed that much- but while playing these older games I noticed that recent FPS games have lost their charm. Of course, whether or not shooting a big ugly monster in the head and causing its brains to splatter against the wall is actually charming is debatable, but if you ask me the appeal of shooters goes beyond the shooting itself." -Just Push Start
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 can totally agree with this. I've got a great collection of old school FPS on my 360, both Dooms, Duke 3D and Serious Sam HD. I like to run and gun in my games, these are much more fun and fast paced than the CoD generation FPS.
I'm personally not a fan of the "I saw you first, you die in 2 shots" style of gameplay. It was cool in CoD4, but now every game under the sun is using it so that people who stink have a chance to win. I mean look how they butchered Uncharted 2 with a higher damage model... sigh.
I really, really prefer the UT2004, Halo 2, Resistance 1, and Goldeneye 007 style of GP. Those were the days.
I would love to see a new Serious Sam game where I don't have to think and hide just run and shoot sh@t.
Would be like fresh air.
i crave the intensity that these games offered; i want to shoot shit, not hide. i think the last good intense fps' i played were black and the resistance games. the resistance series has a good mix of the 2 play styles, theres minor regeneration, health packs and a whole lotta cross your fingers and pray you survive the swarm.
Hexen, Soldier of Fortune, Unreal, Serious Sam....These games bring me back....
Still remember Serious Sam putting you in a closed arena with a bazillion enemies coming wave after wave and clearing them down with the minigun...loved those skeletons...ahh time to get out the ole copy...nothing beats the original.