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“Hi, I’m Ron and I like to party. “

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@risingbold @martintallolaga 0/10 unplayable 🤪

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@fwprism This dude has no idea what he’s yapping about. Stick to streaming my guy.

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@realgotchops @KirbysHeadset That Barrett 50 trillion tho 🔥🤣

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@cjspeedy72 @TerrorThermic @bootmanmstz Exactly.

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@yourxboxally @bootmanmstz I wish! My back log is crazy! I just buy games that look interesting to me, even during a sale. I just don’t let reviewers dictate my own opinion.

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@yourxboxally @bootmanmstz Sometimes it helps having a decent job 😭

[BRAP @BRAP_Podcast]

The Xbox restructuring is very telling about where Microsoft is taking the Xbox business.

Putting Halo, Rare and World's Edge under Activision, moving Obsidian under Bethesda, consolidating other teams and cutting another 268 jobs looks like Microsoft simplifying the entire Xbox organization.

Activision and Bethesda already have established publishing infrastructure, so maintaining a massive parallel Xbox Game Studios structure creates duplication (typical of big M&A's).

Microsoft appears to be removing some of those layers and putting more of its studios under the publishing organizations it spent billions acquiring.

I think it also reinforces the shift we've been watching for a while. Xbox isn't being run primarily as a console business anymore. The priority is getting better returns from Microsoft's gaming IP across console, PC, Game Pass, cloud and other platforms, like PlayStation and Nintendo.

Halo moving under Activision might be the clearest example. Halo used to exist largely as a system seller for Xbox hardware. Now the question seems to be. How do you turn Halo into a bigger, more sustainable gaming franchise?

That doesn't mean Xbox hardware is going away soon. It just means hardware is increasingly one part of a much larger gaming business rather than the center everything else revolves around.

But the real question is whether all this consolidation actually produces the margins and growth Microsoft clearly expects from the amount of money it has invested in gaming. Time will tell.

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

As part of the continuing reset of the business, XBOX will is eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer.

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@IGN @Chico2328 love waking up to a good headline

[Grace Chong, MBI @gc22gc]

It’s actually criminal how many of these are gone. Amazon and private equity killed so much of American life.

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@ZakkenKloot @lulumeservey @B1FFT4Z You have mental problems lmfao

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@LegacyKillaHD Yes because activision is magically better? 😂

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@RenfailSoL @RSDragonwilds So true lmfao

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@lledrok @Chico2328

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@Polymarket

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@fwprism All he does is find the negative in things. Sad life to live.

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

Fuck government censorship

[Variety @Variety]

ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News have joined CNN in suspending pool coverage of Trump after he banned CNN from the White House.

“The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government,” the networks said in a joint statement. “No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.” https://t.co/5iM7ID8902

[Kakurezato @MrFlakegriffn]

@shinobi602 Great step in the right direction, similar to Xbox taking good steps forward.

However, like Xbox, I just can’t trust Bungie until they prove it.