Green(ish) Light Microsoft hasreleased its financial detailsfor the first quarter of its fiscal year — While the statistics are something of a mixed bag, it has been a significant, positive season for the Xbox brand, with strong hardware sales leading to an overall revenue increase of around 11% year-on-year. The continuing economic slump has been tough on Microsoft, which has seen a decline in many of its sectors. Revenue for operating software Windows dropped by a mighty 15%, while Xbox game sales were also down by a much more manageable 3%....

Everything gets translated! Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2is a title that just fell under the radar. The game came out exclusively in Japan this July, while international eyes were on the newly-releasedNew Gundam Breaker. Due to a lack of English translation or wider release is Asia, which was the bare minimum that everyGundamgame was receiving, it seemed like it would be forgotten to history. Fortunately, it seems like the free-to-play title will be getting a second shot at relevancy....

From the fine folks at Onion Games If you at all know anything about me, you know that I am a fan of Onion Games. The developer, headed by Yoshiro Kimura, has released some of the best mobile titles over the past few years, includingDandy DungeonandMillion Onion Hotel. Recently, Kimura and his team have turned their attention to the Switch, creating the awesome scrolling-shooterBlack Birdfor it and portingDandyto the system earlier this year....

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‘Demand for hardware continues to exceed our expectations’ So the Nintendo Switch is on fire. It’s so hot in fact that it just hit roughly 85 million units sold this year, and it still has plenty of life left in it. It’ll clear 100 million by the end of the year, which puts it right on pace for defeating the Wii, Nintendo’s most successful home console to date. That’s huge! The Switch’s rise to fame has been more low key than the “my uncle bought aWii Fitand never played it” obviousness of yesteryear, but Nintendo, like other hardware producers, is struggling to meet that demand....

Fur real? A new tweet, just dropped on Blizzard’sofficialOverwatchTwitter, appears to show a spherical, gun-toting mech rolling into an alleyway, where it opens fire with reckless abandon before revealing its… hamster pilot? The GIF appears to be the sequel to the game’smost recent hero tease, though the bizarre character reveal actually has some fans in a head-scratch, befuddled over whether it’sdefinitelythe next character to join the hero shooter, or just some kind of amusing joke....

Launching with an ‘early access’ Founders Pack next month The multiple beta tests forThe Tomorrow Childrenhave totally messed with my sense of how far along the game actually is and when it’s coming out. Much sooner than I would have thought, it turns out! The PlayStation 4 game will first launch on September 6 with a paid early-access “Founders Pack,” followed by a wholly free-to-play option arriving sometime “in the coming months....

Just Bydo It Publisher NIS America has officially announced that it will be bringing a localization of Granzella’sR-Type Final 2to the west next year. The pseudo-sequel/remake will launch in North America and Europe on PS4, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch in spring 2021. Designed as a love letter to Irem’s genre-defining shmup series,R-Type Final 2features all of the high-intensity intergalactic action of the classic titles but spruced up with modern-day visuals and powerful sound....

Take-Two is seeing better than expected second quarter results as the company has made $268 million in net revenue. That’s an increase of about 54% compared to the same quarter last year. The company doesn’t see the money train stopping anytime soon as they’ve raised their outlook for 2010.Red Dead Redemptionis fueling Take-Two’s confidence as the game has moved five million units since is was released last month. The company is now expecting to see sales of their product reach between $880 to $980 million at the end of the fiscal year....

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I was playing someCastle Crashersover Xbox LIVE tonight with Colette and my woman. Having never taken a second person online over the same 360, I was pleasantly surprised to notice that I wasn’t hearing the old ball and chain’s voice through my headset. I’m sure this isn’t new to a lot of people, but it’s one of those things that I expect to be overlooked in the design of an online system....

It’s been happening since April of this year, but hasn’t received much coverage. Some users have been buying the Move Edition ofHeavy Rain, which promises four pieces of additional content (the “Taxidermist” chapter, soundtrack, theme and “making of” videos), only to find that what’s advertised on the box isn’t on the disc. The issue was brought up on theSony Europe boards months ago, but customers have still been shortchangedin recent weeks....

They’re already toying with it as-is Microsoft has absolutely killed it with Game Pass, what was then dubbed the “Netflix of games.” Since then it’s evolved a bit, offering up games on PC as well, creating an entire ecosystem for Microsoft. It’s their golden goose: one of the big things that sets them apart from Sony. But Sony could, at any time, create their own version of Game Pass and bake it into PlayStation Plus....