Nope.

Excluding Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo (since they’re hardware manufacturers), these are the leaders by revenue.

1. Tencent
2. NetEase
3. Activision/Blizzard
4. EA
5. Epic
6. Take-Two
7. Sega

The issue is that Valve is privately-owned, so they don’t have to disclose a lot of these financials. But rough estimates put…

On Syriana.

George wasn’t particularly overweight. He was bigger than he normally is, but his weight wasn’t so obviously overbearing that it took away from his performance, or became a personality trait in and of itself.

The issue I find with the idea posited by some people in this thread, that larger actors should play…

I’m 30, so a Millennial myself, and aside from Instagram and Facebook, the rest of social media just doesn’t interest me.

It’s telling that people our age and younger spend so much time recording video and taking pictures of their lives not for memories, but to show it to strangers, rather than living in the moment and…

You do realize that Activision was successful well before Call of Duty became a worldwide megahit in 2007 when Modern Warfare dropped. By that point, you had the incredibly successful Tony Hawk series as well as Guitar Hero. It’s ahistorical and outright stupid to say that Activision wasn’t a relevant company prior to…

The question about divying up the bonuses to the lower-down employees is a simple one: logistics. How do you appropriately account for the 80/20 reality: that 80% of the work is done by 20% of the employees? Do you put illustrators and graphic designers on the same level as though who handle sound and writing? Do the…

My studies were in political science and economics so the last thing I need is a recap on how taxable gains work.

What you say might very well be true, but do you have any proof that that’s what Kotick has done? Do you think the institutional investors, most of whom are far richer and more savvy about that particular…

Gaming company as in non-console/hardware maker.

So that takes out Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, leaving Tencent and Activision/Blizzard. Further, Tencent is a holding company that happened to invest in a game developer. Activision (and then Activision Blizzard) was created as a game developer, and has been a game…

Almost none of the large gaming companies are run by developers/designers. The business structure isn’t meant for that, because the skills needed to be a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company are significantly different from that of being the project manager or design director of a video game (or even a series of…

Unsustainable?

Activision/Blizzard is the largest (in terms of revenue) gaming company in the world by about $3bn dollars. That’s no small feat. Only one other company beats them in any significant financial measure (net income/profit, in which case they’re still earning billions of dollars anyways).

Further, of the…

My issue (and I’m gay myself, but also black) is that the idea of assimilating into a culture that is hostile to who you are innately isn’t exclusively the purview of being gay or lesbian. The only reason why it seems to be coming up is that Luca and Alberto are both boys, and post-transformation, they look physically…

I think the issue for people (and I preface by saying I haven’t watched the film) isn’t that there’s queer subtext, but specifically that the queer subtext applies to Luca and Alberto.

In your example, that’s quite clear subtext, but it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Luca and Alberto. The fact the two old…

The whitewashing usually happens when you’re jumping between different mediums, and even then, it’s not all that common that an explicitly gay character or relationship is switched to being straight. What is certainly common is that a character or relationship that’s rather vaguely alluded to being gay or lesbian is…

I think the creepy part refers to the fact that while many of us had a realization of our sexuality at young ages, prior to puberty (such as myself realizing I was gay when I was 7), many people feel that to be gay or lesbian also requires an active desire to have sex with a person of the same sex, and to apply that…

I’m gay and a writer myself, so I’m well versed in the subtext and coding of gay characters, and while I can’t speak on Luca directly as I’ve yet to see it, I can speak on some general things.

The issue with queer coding, as it is usually applied, is that it begins to fall apart when you’re dealing with contextual…

Ooh, this’ll be interesting to parse (as a gay, black man and a fan of Mackie)

To the first few lines, I’m guessing what he was trying to say is that those people who “rationalize” and try to be “relevant” are those who assume that modern-day productions from big studios are still operating of a quasi- Hays Code…

Considering that the Gran Turismo series is the 2nd best selling real-life car racing series of all time (only behind Need for Speed), and the best games of the series happened to be exclusive to the best selling consoles of two consecutive generations (the PS1 and PS2), I (as a gamer) can’t think of another game…

You’re more than welcome. It was a pleasure as well. Cheers.

I’d disagree.

Most of the institutional investors have already locked in significant profits from their Tesla investments. You have to remember that Tesla went up by over 700% last year alone. Most institutional investors would be happy with an increase of 10-20% annually, and it’s highly unlikely that the companies…

When it comes to the profit, I imagine that the reason why certain people (like myself) bring it up while knowing that they have a profit margin on their vehicles is that an early reliance on financial chicanery (even if its legal) could very well portend bad things down the road. Granted, it’s pretty clear that Tesla…

I hope you aren’t taking what I’m saying as any sort of defense for Musk. I find a lot of his personality reprehensible, but I’m not a Tesla investor, nor a consumer for their vehicles, so my only skin in the game is academic interest in them from an economic and financial standpoint. If they fail as a company, I…