Posts tagged with Games
Cloud Gaming as a Feature
So last week, pretty much to no one's surprise, Google announced that they'll be shutting down their gaming streaming service Stadia by January next year. Even at launch, aside from the rocky launch of the service…
Myth-making in Video Games
I've been putting in a good chunk of hours into my PS5 recently making my way through one of the best games of the year, Horizon: Forbidden West. It's a worthy successor to 2017's…
Where the Numbers Keep Getting Bigger
I’ve been messing around with the recently released Diablo Immortal. It’s the latest game in the Diablo series, which popularized this Action RPG + loot genre of games that has largely displaced MMORPGs, by replacing monthly subscription fees with…
Do Subscriptions Work for Video Games?
Video games are a hit-driven business. While there are certainly a class of games— Fortnite , Counter-strike , League of Legends —that persist for years and even decades, the vast majority of video games go through a development → launch → content/…
Gaming's Next Frontier
Last month, a series of corporate maneuvers shook up the world of gaming. First, the mobile gaming pioneer Zynga announced that they were getting acquired by Take-Two Interactive, a major gaming publisher, for $17 billion. Then Microsoft dropped their…
New Gaming Consoles, Like the Old Gaming Consoles
Against all odds, I grabbed a new PlayStation 5 during one of those "in-stock for 30 seconds before we sell out" online mad rushes. It's pretty surreal that, after 6 months of a new console…
