One of Entertainment Fuse's writer, Emma Quinlan, tackles the hot discussion that's been taken place for so long. "When I was 12 years old my parents bought me Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and I have yet to run someone down or kill a prostitute. I know many people around my age that played Vice City as well as Mortal Kombat, Streets Of Rage, and Resident Evil as kids. I am still yet to see any reports that say that they were so deeply influenced by their childhood gaming sessions, that they have since ripped someone’s heart out or that they often stab strangers on the street."
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.
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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 read. I enjoyed your article very much.
Video games don't cause violence. Stupidity causes violence. I'm sorry, but if you're letting your child play a rated M or T game, you're stupid. There are age limits for a reason. The same goes for movies. PG-13 are becoming more racey. That's why it says PG (parental guidance). Most parents don't care what their children do these days. It's as if stupidity has just taken over the world, and the people with brains just sit back and let it go on.
When smart people become violent, it's to overcome the idiots. There's only so much we can take, especially with the government these days. Woo. There's nothing but wacks in government. Democracy, Republican, Democrat, etc mean nothing in this day and age. I believe they will continue to mean nothing until people come forward and fight for their rights. Otherwise, there will be no rights at all.