“Kotick was late for the session, and it was only 16 minutes long.”

You’ll never own a Microsoft? Me either. 

The FTC/DoJ have been effectively not enforcing US antitrust laws for several decades now. There exists no mandate either driven by government interest or public demand to do so, nor is there any kind of hint of any momentum in that direction.

Don’t let Sony off the hook here. They want the exact same thing, and while Microsoft gets all the heat from gamers over what they almost did with the XB1, the far more spectacular failure to exert control was what Sony did with the PS3.

Hey Spanfeller! Go forever fuck yourself!

I mean, Xbox has acquired small studios that they worked with for a long time and helped establish as well. They signed both Ninja Theory and Double Fine’s first games. They’d made 4 Forza Horizon games with Playground, etc.....

You could have made this exact same statement about Netflix back when they made the pivot from disc rentals to streaming. Technology advances. No doubt this is a much harder problem than video streaming was, but several very large companies are betting very large amounts of money on the idea that it can be solved, and…

$60 billion companies don’t get sold unless they want to sell. If Microsoft wasn’t the buyer, someone else would be. You realize that Activision is in the middle of a major, value damaging scandal that you’re just sort of glossing over in your assessment of their business situation right? Over the last 6 months of the…

Microsoft value: $2.5 trillion

I feel like the part of this article that addresses what’s in the actual title, Emma Stone saying he’s a liar, is.... missing.

a lot of these acquisitions is to strengthen the Gamepass value. MS sees Gamepass as the brand’s future and are just making this big splashes to strengthen the product which will help MS in the gaming space in decades to come.

FWIW, Microsoft’s market cap is much higher than those two. About 10x higher than Disney and a little under twice the size of Amazon. 

No, it is “despite.”  It is because the wealthy, including those at the top of the video game industry, have become wealthier, DESPITE the pandemic causing most people to become poorer. 

Appreciate this. The fact theres no info in game as to what they do is annoying

The concept of taking a skin or item from one game to another (which is unlikely to ever happen anyway) doesn’t even slightly require blockchain technology, either. They are like “How cool would that be” when we can already do that with traditional things like, you know, keys and authentication servers.

It’s “I got mine, fuck y’all” for artists.

He really is just the leading voice actor example of “Auteur Syndrome” these days.

It’s just a pump and dump scam.

You’re completely wrong, absurdly wildly wrong. You clearly haven’t been in the industry in decades.

No, that is absolutely not true. There is a reason people aren’t going back to work, especially in states where they pay wait staff 2 dollars a fucking hour + their tips.