Excellent! This is awesome news. Looking forward to see what MS does with Blizzard as they need a kick in their bum and some new blood.

Activision Blizzard isn’t available for streaming. Microsoft entered into an agreement with Nvidia to bring Microsoft + AB (provided deal goes through) games to GeForce Now. That opens up access to people who may not have it otherwise.

Sony is still making more money than ActivisionBliz and microsoft combined currently. this deal makes microsoft the 3rd largest in the gaming market. blocking this merger is really just providing Sony an opportunity to solidify a monopoly they have been barreling towards since the xbox one flopped.

If a female character dies, it’s fridging no matter what, because female and male characters should be equal and no male characters ever die in movies so no females should either.

Anyone who thinks that Nat sacrificed herself because the writers of the movie wanted to say she was less worthwhile than Clint is just looking for something to be outraged about.

The fact that this terrible thing that was done to her without her consent contributes to why Hawkeye’s life is more valuable than hers (he has a family) is a double blow.

“To this day there is no universally agreed upon definition for fridging, it’s just one of those things you know when you see it”

Once again it must be said tropes are useless tools for art criticism they merely highlight humans are so in love with pattern matching they’ll find patterns even when the patterns don’t exist.

She chose to die, that’s true, but she fought Clint for the right to go over the cliff because he had a family to go back to and she didn’t. As we learned in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, she’s incapable of having children, thus her life is determined to be worth less than his. She sacrificed herself to save the world, but…

We won’t know until we’ve seen the second half of the series.

The CEO is not correct, at least in the sense that this is not a thing that Sony started. This has literally been how the industry has worked for decades.

*To be fair* (in as Letterkenny as I can get), Sony was doing this well before the first Xbox existed. *cough* Final Fantasy *cough*

Not old enough to remember devs and publishers complaining about how difficult Sony consoles were to work with

Pretty certain it’s been a thing since consoles existed. Hell it was a thing between individual PCs back in the day. It’s not new to the game industry at all. I’m not saying Sony’s beyond blame at all but I am saying that Microsoft is making a bad faith argument here while ignoring its own actions in the space.  It’s…

Damn. I know it’s a kid show and I’m 40-something, but Prodigy was really starting to grow on me. 

At least they're encouraging newer generations to pirate shows. 

I remember when streaming really kicked in and everyone was all, “Why are you still buying DVDs?!”

And keep a rip of them stored locally and in the cloud. 

I’m reading that it’s cancelled from Paramount Plus but will be shopped around to other platforms.

Yeah, so keep buying physical media of shows you like as long as you can. It might not always save the shows from cancellation... but it’ll keep them from being just a memory.