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Free Guy Is Really About The Game Industry Unionizing
There’s a misunderstanding in many entertainment industries that because your company produces something cool, you must love to do it. Well, “misunderstanding” might be a stretch, because a lot of folks who work in high-visibility, high-demand industries like video games, publishing, and filmmaking actually do love their products. But that shouldn’t mean the companies they…
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Destiny Should Be Sony’s Next Big Animated Series
The month of January had more than its fair share of newsworthy surprises, but the end of the month certainly threw some sizable curveballs our way. In the gaming space, everyone was shocked to learn that Bungie, the original developers of Halo and currently working on the Destiny franchise, had been bought by Sony for…
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Xbox Creator Nearly Got Fired After Saying Gaming Is Like Masturbating
Back in 2001, one of the key creators behind the original Xbox console, Seamus Blackley, compared gaming to masturbating. Apparently, this didn’t go over well with Bill Gates and other high-ranking Microsoft execs. According to Blackley, he nearly got fired for the quote.
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Despite Pandemic, Gaming CEOs Made an Obscene Amount of Money in 2020
In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a globe-spanning pandemic, chief executives of the biggest gaming companies collectively brought home close to $US1 billion (almost $1.4 billion in Aussie money). That’s according to a new report from market intelligence firm Games One, which collates a handful of…