The Big 3 Have Fallen! – EA to Sell-Out to Private Equity and Saudi Prince
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/28/25 at 03:06 PM CT
Industrial Gaming has been in the hands of three major players in the Triumvirate of Evil for longer than most young-adult Gamers have even been alive. Yet, starting with the Microsoft buyout of Activision to feed the floundering Xbox Division, these big players have fallen by the wayside, one-by-one.
Not long ago, Ubisoft was the next to fall, after finding itself in such a dismal state that no legitimate *scoff* players in Big Gaming even wanted to buy them, and ended up splitting the company in half, while giving custody of their most lucrative IPs to Chinese Communist Party apparatus, Tencent.
Now Electronic Arts is circling the drain as well, with the announcement last Friday that they were in talks to be bought-out by two private equity firms and Saudi Prince, Mohammed bin Salman to the tune of $50 billion.
Activision becoming part of Xbox, Ubisoft feeding itself to the Communists, and EA going private: It feels like the end of an era. Of course, with the dismal state …
Nintendo Courts Diversity Hires: It’s Not What You Think
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/21/25 at 01:11 PM CT
It seems like Nintendo is the only Big Gaming company making headlines this year, what with both Microsoft and Sony appearing to lie down and die while the gaming landscape changes around them. Earlier on this past Summer, Shigeru Miyamoto – the father of Mario, Link, and basically every Nintendo IP that actually matters – mentioned in an interview that he was urging Nintendo to bring more diversity to its board of directors.
Naturally, whenever a Gamer sees that hateful word, “diversity,” he will immediately assume that it means the same thing it has come to mean in the West over the course of the last 8 years of insane political activism. However, in Japan, and at Nintendo, at least, it seems that “diversity” actually falls more in-line with what most sane people would consider to be “good” diversity, and not the tainted spawn of Identity Politics.
Rather than encouraging Nintendo to create mandatory quotas for hiring Blacks, women, and Lesbians, Miyamoto has …
Nintendo Completes Transformation into Evil Corporation with Bullsh!t Patent
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/14/25 at 03:38 PM CT
Oh dear, it seems that the little toy company that saved gaming from itself after the Crash of 1983 has finally come full-circle and completed its transformation into just another Evil Corporate Person out to take advantage of every situation and exploit every legal loophole in order to entrench and enrich itself.
We’ve grown used to the constant noise from Nintendo’s legal team attempting to squash legal emulation and issuing Cease and Desist letters to long-time fans who just want to create Indie homages to the Nintendo games that proved to be such big influences on them, and on gaming as a whole. Nintendo’s transformation into a draconian, totalitarian control freak has been on full display in other ways, as well, with them putting the kibosh on allowing Nintendo console owners to backup their own save and game data locally after modders exploited that capability to run homebrew code on the Wii almost 20 years ago.
Sadly, Nintendo’s efforts to exert control over …
Sony to Bow-Out of Hardware in Favor of Community
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/06/25 at 11:48 PM CT
During its Summer financial briefing, Sony’s Senior Vice President announced that the company will be gradually changing the PlayStation division’s entire business model. “We are moving away from a hardware-centric business model more to a platform business that expands the community and increases engagement,” he said.
Based on this statement from one of the top men at Sony Corporate, it seems like PlayStation’s days may be numbered, at least when it comes to being a physical box connected to a TV. Following in Microsoft’s footsteps with the Xbox Division, Sony began to dabble in releasing its (very expensive to make) first-party titles on platforms besides PlayStation consoles in 2021, when it began publishing games on Steam. Now, the one-time Console Warrior even seems interested in pushing its software onto competing consoles, as this Summer it also posted a job listing for a “Multiplatform and Account Management Senior Director,” who would be responsible for …
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