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Google profits rocket despite recession

The Guardian Writes:

Internet giant Google continued to shrug off the worst effects of the recession, announcing today that it had seen an 18% increase in profits for its last financial quarter.

In its latest financial results, the Californian technology giant posted net profits of $1.48bn (£901m) for the three months to the end of June, on the back of revenues of $5.52bn (£3.36bn). While that marks just a 3% increase in revenues on the same period of 2008, net profit rocketed by 18% - up from $1.25bn for the second quarter of last year.

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics13h ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai12h ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

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Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox’s Soul

Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.

LG_Fox_Brazil17h ago

This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in

Hedstrom2h ago

Phil wants Xbox to be as soulless as him!

Tacoboto1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.

Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.

Markdn1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,

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I didn't expect to save $500 on this epic Samsung Odyssey G9 curved gaming monitor deal at Amazon

Kelsey writes: "Samsung is one of the best in the game and we've just spotted a gaming monitor deal out of this world with the Samsung G9 Odyssey at Amazon."