Depends on how you put the math together... I ‘subscribe’ to Disney+, Hulu, and nominally ESPN+ (although ESPN+ barely works at all as it has comprehensive login problems that have existed since launch) for ‘free’ as part of my Verizon plan. I’ve got a lot of issues with bundling services, but I did the math when…

Finally, a take that reads more like reality and less like auteur fanfic. Filoni is VERY good at his job, but ascribing to him some sort of mortal anguish about penning his way out of a stinger scene from the end of Rebels is such nonsense. I imagine it took him all of maybe ten minutes to clear his head and figure…

This is the most convoluted solution possible, and it also kinda makes me wonder where the value for Microsoft is in the entire deal now. The (presumed) plan was to make the games available for sale on other platforms and free on GamePass to drive GamePass subscriptions... but by giving Ubisoft the streaming rights…

Yeah, I don't love the police response but Kai Cenat is the responsible party here. People used to damn near murder each other for the CHANCE to buy cheap shit on Black Friday, and this kid thought inviting thousands of people to a disorganised block party to give away PS5s and PCs and gift cards wasn't going to…

Absolutely not, sir or madame. There is no market for a candybar with that monstrosity on this or any other Earth. 

I’m so excited to see what kind of egg farming builds will become viable once we’re not sorta handicapped by sluggishness on the new engine. It’ll be cool to see people be able to use stuff other than just Sarabande again.

Bungie’s newest statement seems pretty damning. If they’ve actually got proof he was doing this for YEARS, it begs the question-- dude, why would you endanger your source of revenue? You didn’t even get ‘credit’ from the community for being the leaker, and just nuked a big chunk of your own career. What an…

Feel bad for this dude for being temporarily without income, but working at GameStop is BARELY income. That company is an absolute joke as an employer and this kid is 100% better off. It’ll suck for a couple weeks until he finds literally anything else, but I refuse to believe anyone leaves GameStop and ends up in a…

Nothing surprising about this... it was always likely to be an unsustainable fad, and when Funko found early success they leaned in HARD. Tie-ins with basically every media property that has ever existed. There’s obviously no sustainable model when you’ve already exploited damn near everything that anyone has ever…

She’s totally free to do whatever she likes, and doesn’t deserve any criticism from others about how she runs her business provided she isn’t hurting anyone or breaking the law. Full stop.

I may not always agree with AOC (although I generally do) but it’s awesome that she called out SBF like this and that she’s an avid gamer... even if League is not remotely my personal jam. I do wonder, however, just how nerdy some members of Congress really are. There are plenty of fortysomething and fiftysomething…

For much as they talked over different generations (especially early in the 360's lifespan) of using the Xbox platform as a digital gateway device I always thought Microsoft’s long game was Live Anywhere, which... actually wound up happening? Between GamePass Ultimate, Xbox Game Bar, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and things like…

I wonder if this is part of what eventually kills the Series S. We’ve heard that some developers want to do away with the console, and honestly it seems like that it would be dumped when a mid-generation refresh comes around anyhow seeing as it is just underpowered, but a $200 per unit loss for Microsoft on a console…

Yeah, but that’s this super weird, misguided idea that I don’t get at all. There is ‘loving games’— and sure, I think all of us love games— but if you agree to make $4-5 less per hour than Walmart because you feel like talking to people about Mario Party is your passion, you need serious help making responsible life…

That’s an interesting thought— there is a load of money in TCG/tabletop gaming and a fair overlap with video games. I don’t remotely trust GameStop to pull it off, and I think even a successful implementation would require them to close maybe half of their locations (seriously, they’ve oversaturated the market so much…

It seems like a nice idea, but you’re talking about a long-term commitment to massively increasing their per-store on hand for other forms of media at incredible cost (as you pointed out, GameStop has waaaaaaay too many locations) for a model that isn’t proven any more than this current ‘just throw shit at the wall…

To be honest, though— the margins in games are so terrible that you can’t really run a publicly owned company that trains their employees to be knowledgeable about selling video games because they don’t need to spend money to ‘train the staff on games’ for games to sell. It just doesn’t make financial sense. Games…

Every one of these articles has me asking myself the same question... why are people still working at GameStop? The pay lags considerably behind even something like Walmart or Target or even some McDonald’s locations, the company culture and environment seem terrible, and obviously the company doesn’t have any real…

In a world where stuff like LTT exists and is very transparent about the massive amount of effort and energy and money that goes into making a current channel that produces relevant content-- particularly in a newer medium where content is being released every second of the day-- the idea that G4 was going to succeed…

‘Wages stagnate?’ I take some exception to that reporting... the last article y’all posted about GameStop was littered with comments about people making $10 per hour and having been stuck at those rates for years and years. I wouldn’t call this any sort of stagnation, unless you’re talking on geologic time. These…