The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been named the world's best videogame by influential multi-format UK-based videogame magazine, Edge.
Compiled from thousands of votes from Edge readers, nominations were made for hundreds of games, spanning across the last three decades. The voting process also involved creatives working in the videogame industry, and countless rounds of deliberation among the Edge editorial staff.
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.
That was a great game, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it the "World's Best" game.
to me its zelda:ALTTP
Why is FF XII on there? I mean it's a new game but hardly a top 10 world's best considering that it's the only FF game on the list!
It is an opinion piece by Edge though so you can take it lightly. I do think Zelda: OoT was/is a really great game and should be on the list, but FFXII...? It didn't even have a twist!
I have played them all except FFXII and HL2 however I will get the orange box later this year. All of the games on the list where great experiences not to be forgotten, but I guess I didn't play Halo right when it came out but several years later so maybe that is why it didn't hit me as hard as the others, or maybe because I was older.
Ocarina was the first game to combine RPG/Action with a 3-D world to explore - and horseback riding! It was never boring - varied environments/enemies, great combat and puzzles. I've played through Ocarina more times than any other game - five.
Yes there are games that have better combat, or larger worlds, but Ocarina does everything very well.
Good to see RE4 up there too - an absolutely brilliant game.