just a few months ago, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty was pointing to Double Fine and Compulsion Games as examples of studios it's committed to, "where little sparks can grow into something big."
PlayStation and Xbox's serial acquisitions from 2018-2022 were a huge mistake and its consequences for the entire industry are depressing to think about.
So much talent lost between all these studio like Bluepoint and Arkane
Whoever predicted that appointing Asha Sharma as CEO was Microsoft sunsetting the XBOX brand were probably spot on, at this point.
Legit brain dead corporation.
XBOX deserves to be remembered as a massive failure and nothing more.
So fucking pissed off.
Poor devs.
Need to come back to Twitter to say that the XBOX Activision-Blizzard-King deal was the worst thing to happen to gaming in the past decade.
Everything since that deal closed has been absolutely nothing but negatives for the game industry and all of their internal studios.
REPORT: Studios are in active negotiations with XBOX and may be given the chance to go independent, 🚀
✅The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
✅Cambridge, England-based Ninja Theory, the maker of Hellblade, is also in conversations with Xbox, as are several other studios across the portfolio that are at risk of being shuttered.
✅The studios may still have the opportunity to buy themselves back from Xbox and go independent, although many employees will likely lose their jobs as a result
Source: @Bloomberg
What's hilarious is how incel XBOX fans are defending XBOX for shuttering studios when they absolutely didn't need to if they hadn't done the ABK deal.
XBOX will move 100s of millions into a shitty studio like 343i and give them numerous chances tho despite them ruining Halo.
⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0% 📉. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data). Thread 🧵.
"The Catalyst" by Linkin Park is a fking insane experience live.
Incredible show from LP. 10/10.
Next show in Toronto, I'm getting tickets for the floor. Ya'll better come back next year.
Also, PVRIS was fucking insane. Lynn is such a performer.
PS - Ignore my singing.
Tucker: How many people live in Iran?
Cruz: I don’t know the population
Tucker: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?
Cruz: How many people live in Iran?
Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that?
As someone who had a very close friend fly between London and India quite recently via Air India, the Air India crash is horrifying to see.
Heartbreaking.