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#89: A little perspective
Microsoft's latest results provide some welcome context on that eye-watering Activision deal.
Nathan Brown
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#88: Reasons to be cheerful
As the nausea passes — sort of, anyway — let's focus on the positive side of Acquisition Blizzard.
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#87: The morning after
As the dust settles, some further thoughts on what we shall henceforth call Acquisition Blizzard.
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#86: Gigaton
Snap thoughts on Microsoft's $68.7bn (!!) acquisition of Activision Blizzard (!!!).
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#85: Return of the thing
We're back! Let's get caught up on a surprisingly busy start to 2022.
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#84: Everything but the game
[Hello and welcome to the final Hit Points of 2021. There’s something I’d like your help with today, so please do stick around to the end for details. Thank you!] First up, apologies for the lack of an update on Friday. While I had minimal side effects from
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#83: Ring out
Did you get the Red Ring Of Death? I think we all did, didn’t we. It was sort of a rite of passage in the Xbox 360 era, and I remember all too painfully the day my launch-wave console finally bit the dust. To be fair to Microsoft, the
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#82: End times
It is often said that all games are miracles. How else to describe this magical collision of art and science? Phenomenally talented artists, doing things in days or weeks I could never do in a thousand lifetimes. Brilliantly creative designers and genius animators. Writers weaving a story throughout millions of
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#81: And the winner is...
Premiere /ˈprɛmɪɛː/ noun the first performance of a musical or theatrical work or the first showing of a film. Sorry, just thought that might be helpful to some of you today. I do not want to spend today shitting on The Game Awards. I really don’t! For one thing,
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#80: Nothing for money
Happy Halo Infinite day! Sort of! What a distinctly weird release for one of the biggest games of 2021. Delayed by a year, then arriving in tranches — its brilliant multiplayer beta, with its absent modes and miserable Battle Pass, landing weeks ahead of the singleplayer campaign, itself shorn of expected
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#79: Plus, ca change
Think Sony's going to 'take on' Game Pass? Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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#78: Battle cry
It's the most wonderful time — and possibly the very worst idea — of the year.