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Grubb

@jeffgrubb
19 posts
2024-01-23
Both things can be true: Palworld is aping Pokemon, and also caring that a game copied Pokemon is cop shit.
2024-01-23 View on X
The Verge

A look at Palworld, a Pokémon-like game launched on January 19, which has sold 5M+ copies and is now the most played game on Steam, amid IP infringement claims

The Pokémon-like has sold over 5 million copies in the three days since its early access launch.

2023-03-09
Why does Sony think that is something that happens? Unless .... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-09 View on X
The Verge

UK CMA filings: Microsoft details how Call of Duty could run on the Nintendo Switch, citing an “optimized” game engine and outlining the success of past ports

In a filing (pdf) submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft shared some details …

2023-01-13
Ubisoft definitely already did the rounds proposing acquisitions and mergers with other similar companies, and it mostly got laughed at. It's just too unwieldy. Its strength was its distributed development structure, and now that is an albatross.
2023-01-13 View on X
Financial Times

Paris-based Ubisoft's stock drops ~14% after the company slashes its forecasts, reports “markedly and surprisingly slower” holiday sales, and delays a game

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :

2022-11-17
Blizzard breaking up with Netease. https://investor.activision.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
Bloomberg

NetEase and Blizzard plan to end their 14-year partnership after January 2023, leaving Chinese players' access to games like Warcraft and Overwatch in question

NetEase Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment Inc. plan to end their 14-year partnership after January, depriving the Chinese firm …

2022-05-21
“I will now be voting Republican” is one hell of a euphemism for showing someone your genitals. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-21 View on X
Insider

Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's allegation that Elon Musk exposed himself and offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016

Complications for the Twitter deal? Bill Chappell / NPR : Elon Musk denies a report accusing him of sexual misconduct on a SpaceX jet Abram Brown / Forbes : How The Sexual Miscondu...

2022-01-13
First digital video game was Spacewar! Second and third games were Galaxy Game and Computer Space, both were clones of Spacewar. When it went from video game to video game(s), it was with clones. That's how much it is in gaming's DNA. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

2022-01-12
First digital video game was Spacewar! Second and third games were Galaxy Game and Computer Space, both were clones of Spacewar. When it went from video game to video game(s), it was with clones. That's how much it is in gaming's DNA. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-12 View on X
The Verge

Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity

It seems Apple has taken action  —  Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?

2021-10-17
You literally can use Steam's features to do everything NFT and Blockchain promise. But you can do it without extreme, unnecessary energy consumption, and you can do it with customer service support, which is actually something you want. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-17 View on X
The Verge

Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs”

Your move, Epic Games Store  —  Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam … Source: Steamworks Documentation .

2021-10-16
You literally can use Steam's features to do everything NFT and Blockchain promise. But you can do it without extreme, unnecessary energy consumption, and you can do it with customer service support, which is actually something you want. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-16 View on X
The Verge

Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs”

Your move, Epic Games Store  —  Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam … Source: Steamworks Documentation .

2021-03-23
Discord has a huge audience, but it's also an engaged audience of people who tend to spend a lot of money. That's worth a lot to a lot of different companies. Microsoft seems obvious fit except for maybe the memories of how it squandered Skype. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B; one source says Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself

Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire Discord Inc., a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

Discord has a huge audience, but it's also an engaged audience of people who tend to spend a lot of money. That's worth a lot to a lot of different companies. Microsoft seems obvious fit except for maybe the memories of how it squandered Skype. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-23 View on X
VentureBeat

Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations

2020-11-06
Not even a little surprised by this. Little point because so few SSDs will probably work at this point. Just wait a few months, do some thorough testing, and then do the update when it's really ready to go. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-06 View on X
The Verge

Sony confirms PS5 won't support SSD storage expansion at launch, despite the presence of a dedicated internal slot, says it “is reserved for a future update”

Sean Hollister / The Verge :

2020-10-16
It runs significantly cooler than current gen in the same game. In a Series X optimized game, the Xbox still doesn't get as hot as those consoles. It draws between 10 fewer watts from the wall in the same game as One X while running at higher framerate. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-16 View on X
The Verge

Xbox Series X preview: focus on basics that matter like being quiet and cool, high frame rates, faster load times, accessory support, and backward compatibility

Tom Warren / The Verge :

2020-06-13
This image says a lot about PS5. You do a discless PS5 because digital customers are worth more, but also because if you sell PS5DE for $50 less, people begin to think of spending just $50 more on the *real* PS5 as a deal ... even if it's $600. https://venturebeat.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-13 View on X
The Verge

Sony reveals new hardware design for its upcoming PlayStation 5, which ships in two versions, one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a Digital Edition without

Sony's next-gen console is here  —  Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like.  After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements …

I don't think the PS5DE exists for budget-conscious people. I'm sure a few families will get it without fully understanding, but any person who cares about saving money is someone who buys used games. This is about price positioning. https://venturebeat.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-13 View on X
The Verge

Sony reveals new hardware design for its upcoming PlayStation 5, which ships in two versions, one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a Digital Edition without

Sony's next-gen console is here  —  Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like.  After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements …

2020-06-12
This image says a lot about PS5. You do a discless PS5 because digital customers are worth more, but also because if you sell PS5DE for $50 less, people begin to think of spending just $50 more on the *real* PS5 as a deal ... even if it's $600. https://venturebeat.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Sony reveals new hardware design for its upcoming PlayStation 5, which ships in two versions, one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a Digital Edition without

Sony's next-gen console is here  —  Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like.  After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements …

I don't think the PS5DE exists for budget-conscious people. I'm sure a few families will get it without fully understanding, but any person who cares about saving money is someone who buys used games. This is about price positioning. https://venturebeat.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Sony reveals new hardware design for its upcoming PlayStation 5, which ships in two versions, one with a 4K Blu-ray drive and a Digital Edition without

Sony's next-gen console is here  —  Sony is finally revealing what the PlayStation 5 looks like.  After nearly an hour of PS5 game announcements …

2020-03-19
People keep assuming the 825GB SSD is usable space on a 1TB drive. That's not the case. It's actually a 825GB drive. Sony built it that way for cost and performance. https://www.eurogamer.net/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-03-19 View on X
Eurogamer.net

Sony details full PlayStation 5 specs: a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU, custom GPU based on AMD's RDNA 2 with 10.28 teraflops, 16GB RAM, and custom 825GB SSD

Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net :

2018-02-01
Xbox division's hardware revenues up 14 percent. Software and software services up 4 percent. You can feel Xbox wanting to grow, and Microsoft just needs the content to enable that to happen. https://twitter.com/...
2018-02-01 View on X
Microsoft Investor Relations

Microsoft reports $28.92B in Q2 2018 revenue, up 12% YoY, net loss of $6.3B due to $13.8B charge related to tax overhaul

REDMOND, Wash. — January 31, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2017:  · Revenue was $28.9 billion and increased 12%