Why is this news?

The state of gaming, really. Supposedly it’s an art form but people act goofy when genitals are involved.

That’s what they’re saying here, but I have zero doubt they’re doing it because they don’t want a strong direct competitor. The reasoning for lobbying hard against this merger is pretty clear.

Do a follow-up call, Grace!

Comcast should buy it and merge it with Peacock. Peacock itself is totally fine, but I struggle to find stuff to watch on it because a BUNCH of it is family-oriented stuff. Hulu would be a good way to cater to the rest of us imo.

Early 2000's was a special time man.

I only hope that the Switch hardware doesn’t choke on the game.

Why does that matter how they rank in the gaming space though? Saying that even a trillion dollar multinational behemoth remains in third place in the gaming space is an argument FOR Microsoft and the acquisition, not against it.

I mean, those claims are just silly though. Microsoft is a massive Conglomerate. They’re not some mom & pop shop on the corner. The other two are also conglomerates. Microsoft goofed up and neglected parts of their business, so now a conglomerate that made 200bn last year wants everyone to go along with their plans…

There’s an awful lot of vague pointing in your statement when again, we can point to Microsoft’s own lack of drive in building out their first party studios for two freakin’ decades. At this point, every corporation you’ve named could be correctly considered multi-national, not domestic. I wouldn’t be surprised if MS…

There’s a whole lot of awful takes in those tweets. Claiming DA2 was a bad game might be the best awful take of the lot.

There’s zero chance Twitch would care if that was actually the case.

A lot of those people live in suburbs. A car is basically required to live in a suburb. And public transportation doesn’t go through suburbs for obvious reasons.

I’m pretty sure RE4 made Leon’s lines intentionally campy, and they’re hilarious. Seems like Forspoken plays it straight, in typical SquareEnix fashion.

So you’re saying you don’t want a DLC Knife?

Okay so QTE’s aren’t fun, but it’s kind of removing what made RE4 a great early 2000's game. Why not just shorten them, instead of (probably unintentionally) chipping away at the game’s identity?

it’d have been completely brigaded by the GamerGate crowd literally just because black woman

Well, 360 was the leader, right? They didn’t really have to worry about first party titles. Also Kinect was weirdly a huge success?! That gen really may have been the Twilight Zone era of this entire thing. A “covid” generation. Like you acknowledge it happened, but when the next gen rolled around it looked like an…

I for one can’t wait for the clashing optics of opulence and extreme wealth amid a recession!

I also assumed that? Either that headline is doing too much, or Laura spent way too much time on writing this article.