$300 million is a small price to pay to purge the company of this infection.

It would be their best investment to date, and could possibly lead to ABK getting their reputation back in the industry.

Unless they go right ahead and hire Bobby 2.0, which given the corporate landscape in the US, is extremely likely.

I’ll…

He should trip and fall teeth first onto a stone railing

Do folks not remember the stories about Kotick when he first came in at Activision? He would walk into offices and swear at and berate game devs, calling them “pimple-faced basement virgins” and shit. He would make people break down and cry and fire them on the spot for the smallest perceived mistake and made it clear…

Alongside communism, capitalism as applied by neo conservatism, has consistently shown itself a failure for the actual working populous of a country. The years and millions spent demonising (democratic) socialism via media mouthpieces has ensured no viable alternative will ever take hold without ... Seismic shifts in…

I don’t know the full history of Lab Zero, but this sounds like the kind of Great Man Theory mythmaking that’s used to talk about companies and is never true. Consider Mariel Cartwright, who was lead animator for Skullgirls (at least the first two years) and Indivisible. She’s been with Lab Zero since the beginning,…

A company he built from nothing.

They weren’t trying to steal anything. Private companies often have a board of directors, that typically represents investor interests as well as employee interests, in order to avoid a situation where the CEO can do anything without repercussions. The powers given to that board are written into the business’s…

Thank you for defending someone you despise/don’t give a shit about. This is what intelligent discourse is.

I definitely think one of the downsides of so much information sharing around games, is that push for more “optimal” or min-max commentary from people.

Here’s my problem with their mission here: The quest to uncouple the remake from its source material came at the expense of a well crafted story, which should be Job One.

For 95% of the game, it is a well crafted story. But when the ending requires the player to have played the original 23-year-old game (not to mention…

My issue with the ending is, frankly, I don’t think it’s as clever as some people are trying to make it out to be (looking at Jim “REMAKE is subversive” Sterling). And that’s largely due to how the Whispers are handled throughout the game, mostly serving as an arbitrary way for the game to have its cake and eat it…

The biggest issue I had with the final chapter was one of scale.

Hey Josh, not only do I love sports, but I love other topics when they have a sports-related angle, so I have to say I was excited to read this article.

Fuck, I love y’all. <3

If this drowns out the clusterfuck year Activision-Blizzard has had I will be more disgusted than I already am. Seriously, fuck Activision’s executives

Meanwhile, part of me is still sighing, “And of course this still happens before a Mac version.”

Ultimately, everything is political. I forget who actually said it, but the aphorism that we do not have to take an interest in politics for politics to take an interest in us is absolutely true—and it’s of vital importance to the present situation.

More importantly, Acti-Blizz (and the NBA, and South Park) took a…

They most certainly have that right.

NBA: Bends over backwards and gets down on their knees to make China feel better after a GM expresses support for Hong Kong.

Doing what’s expected by all parties and all drivers thinking about what other drivers are doing etc. is how these things work.