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#94: Sale of the century
If NFTs really are the future of games, you'd think their proponents would be a little better at explaining why. In the meantime, here's another disaster.
Nathan Brown
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#93: Capital idea
Why Microsoft's acquisition fever seems unlikely to spread to Japan.
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#92: Tell me more
Sony buys Bungie; the NYT buys Wordle; no one buys Worms NFTs.
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#91: After the gold rush
A cautionary tale on throwing ourselves too eagerly into subscriptions (please keep your Substack jokes to yourself).
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#90: Line goes down
Ubisoft's push into NFTs isn't working, and it's all your fault, dummy.
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#89: A little perspective
Microsoft's latest results provide some welcome context on that eye-watering Activision deal.
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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