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First details on Fire TV and Android TV fail to impress despite industry's long-simmering anxiety over tech giants' designs on gaming
April 24, 2024
Brendan Sinclair
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Sony and Facebook throw their wallets into the ring and virtual reality dominates the discussion at GDC 2014
March 28, 2024
Brendan Sinclair
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EA and 3DO founder Trip Hawkins posed a provocative question, then offered an unimpressive answer
Feb. 28, 2024
Brendan Sinclair
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With the Wii U struggling and the company signaling changes, January of 2014 saw lots of people take (mostly wrong) guesses at what Nintendo would do next
Jan. 30, 2024
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League of Legends maker overplays its hand by trying to ban pro players from streaming other companies' games
Dec. 20, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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People were so eager for new consoles they didn't mind waiting a bit longer for games that would justify the purchase
Nov. 28, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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The power of the cloud, second-screen gaming, and more promised futures that never came to pass
Oct. 18, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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It's time to reflect on the most recent GTA game, and (unrelatedly) whether we should be ashamed of our words and deeds
Sept. 21, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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People trying to do something different have always struggled with the question of whether the customer is always right
Aug. 23, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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Future Unity CEO John Riccitiello decries money-focused game makers, we agree with an NRA lobbyist, and other unexpected occurrences
July 6, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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Xbox's strong lineup of next-gen games at E3 2013 was no match for Sony promising the same old, same old
June 14, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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A decade after publishers bet on fewer, bigger, bloodier titles, does the industry depend on violent games like it used to?
May 25, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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Microsoft's big unveiling took an audience hungry for the future of games and force-fed them entertainment of the past
May 24, 2023
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Reports of Microsoft's next system requiring a constant internet connection got the industry talking, fretting, screaming, and harassing
April 26, 2023
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Everything goes wrong for EA's reboot, EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down, and the industry sends mixed messages on whether it wants women around
March 9, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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Sony's big hardware unveiling gets positive reviews, live-service games hit a wall, and it's a good month for Bad Calls
Feb. 22, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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EA's chief talent officer saw a tidal wave of horrifying stories from women in games and decided the problem was women didn't want to sign up for that
Jan. 31, 2023
Brendan Sinclair
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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, games and mental health proved handy distractions from gun control
Dec. 22, 2022
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Five years of futility caught up to the publisher as yet another bad quarter and a cash crunch paved a short path to bankruptcy
Nov. 17, 2022
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Let's revisit the headlines of October 2012, sorted by which subgenre of horror movies they most closely resemble
Oct. 25, 2022
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Even with a year-long head start on the next-gen competition, Nintendo's Wii successor never really looked like a contender
Sept. 13, 2022
Brendan Sinclair
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The social gaming giant hits rock bottom, decides to set up camp and stay there for a while
Aug. 25, 2022
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"A freight train plowed into the console games business on July 11th, forever changing the console games landscape..."
July 28, 2022
Brendan Sinclair
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We poke fun at the people who proclaimed consoles dead a decade ago, but can we argue they were actually right?
June 15, 2022
Brendan Sinclair
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38 Studios is a cautionary tale about the dangers of leadership with unshakable confidence
May 26, 2022
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