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#93: Capital idea
Why Microsoft's acquisition fever seems unlikely to spread to Japan.
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Why Microsoft's acquisition fever seems unlikely to spread to Japan.
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Sony buys Bungie; the NYT buys Wordle; no one buys Worms NFTs.
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A cautionary tale on throwing ourselves too eagerly into subscriptions (please keep your Substack jokes to yourself).
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Ubisoft's push into NFTs isn't working, and it's all your fault, dummy.
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Microsoft's latest results provide some welcome context on that eye-watering Activision deal.
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As the nausea passes — sort of, anyway — let's focus on the positive side of Acquisition Blizzard.
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As the dust settles, some further thoughts on what we shall henceforth call Acquisition Blizzard.
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Snap thoughts on Microsoft's $68.7bn (!!) acquisition of Activision Blizzard (!!!).
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We're back! Let's get caught up on a surprisingly busy start to 2022.
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[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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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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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