From Epic Games's stance on Indies, to Spiderman leaving the MCU, Everything is here in this week's Power Up Podcast.
IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation.
Well this can only mean one thing... more job layoffs even in the publication industry.
Probably Microsoft's fault!
They surely gave IGN the idea.
What's next IGN Pass?
But joke aside let's hope that this makes the news better compared to some of IGN branches
Oh boy! If we've learned one thing about recent news, corporate shrinkage of an industry via buyouts from those at top only leads to good things for employees and consumers!
Ummmm not sure that’s a good thing that all these review sites are under the same umbrella. There’s no guarantee that they will maintain a non-bias opinion not paid for by the highest bidder.
Ouch, that does not sounds good for Eurogamer.
With so much of the industry media that will more or less follow the same editorial line, it will be harder and harder to distinguish PR from actual journalism in a couple of years.
Thinking about it, may it explain their review score for Hellblade 2?
"To celebrate its 20th anniversary, QubicGames is bringing a curated collection of its top titles on Steam. As a launch gift to players, there is even a "20 for 20 - Anniversary Bundle" that will be heavily discounted to allow gamers to purchase their favorite titles at irresistible prices. Players who purchase the entire bundle at once will pay less than $20!" - QubicGames.
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the company's quarterly earnings results, how confident Zelnick is in the guidance for fall 2025, and much more.
The Insomniac deal was not an attack on Marvel/Disney. It wasn't to prevent Disney from getting them. Sony used the Insomniac purchase to counter Microsoft and sure up their first party.
It would be an interesting thing for Disney to buy Insomniac to grow their game division. But Disney would need successful consoles like PlayStation to sell the games. Sony showed one console's game sales can outsell multiplatform sales of the franchise.
And, excluding Sony's console with Marvel games as a way to strong arm Sony to give up the movie license would have been a bad move too.
Disney wanted a 50/50 stake to get more controlling interest into Spider-Man than they already got. While making all the money on merchandise. Spider-Man should be in the MCU, but it was Disney's greed that lead Sony to say no. Because Disney was offering nothing in return for more control.
As Puerto Rock 77 said on YouTube as a great idea. Sony should have come back at Disney and said, give us 2-3 future Marvel game exclusive licenses In addition to Spider-Man for PS5 like X-Men, Fantastic Four and some other property like Black Panther or Dr Strange in exchange for half or all of Spider-Man movie franchise. It's a win win.
Disney's bread and butter is movies. PlayStation is Sony's bread and butter. It's a win win.
Even though different parts of Sony negotiated these deals, it only makes sense for both parties. Give up something for something where each company benefits.