Last-minute shoppers can give more fun for less during GameStop's GAME DAYS sale from Dec.12-25.
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?
2K Games will take the stage at Summer Game Fest, and it is about time we got some good news about the state of Mafia 4's development.
I hope it's Mafia 4. And I really hope it's set during the 70s or 80s, and not a prequel of the first game as was rumoured.
Discover the impact of Microsoft's decision to include Call Of Duty in Game Pass. Explore the pros and cons and speculate about future changes.
Most folks that have a Gamepass subscription will not spend the $70, they will use Gamepass instead to play COD. MS will most likely make their money from some solely PC players & some solely PS5 owners. Even some PC players may opt to use Gamepass instead of spending $70. I would think MS would want to make every dime they could from retail sales. As long as they put new releases of COD day one on Gamepass, MS will lose out on some sales of COD.
Most that don't have Gamepass will just buy the game and he done with it. People that do will just result in a retail sale being lost. Some will buy the subscription for the month then be done. This is lose lose. Casuals aren't going to pay almost 300 dollars a year for COD.
The reality is that Microsoft already knows the answer as stated by them in their documents. PlayStation gamers have built up an ecosystem of games and they aren't migrating over and dropping what they have to buy an Xbox to play one game in a service you have to pay monthly for. Cheaper to just buy the game. And, I'd bet many casual COD players don't know or care about the acquisition.
Which is why Jim Ryan pushed to make sure that that one game continues to be sold as usual on Sony's platform to keep the status quo. Every other IP owned by Activision are worthless. And Activision has shown they don't care about other IP like Tony Hawk by cancelling them.
Sales WILL be lost on Xbox. That's for certain. Microsoft can only hope that Xbox gamers continue to buy up those micro transactions to make up for those lost sales. Only positive for Microsoft is that they get to dip into PlayStation game sales that we all know from history and NPD, that Sony's console sells more games. But increase subs from Sony fans for game pass? Not happening in any way that matters.
Sony, on the other hand, can have their cake and eat it too. They get COD and they can continue dropping more content for their fastest selling GaaS game which is Hell Divers 2. As the game passes 12 million sales and doesn't beat you over the head with micro transactions, Sony has a win win situation and can support the game getting more content to keep players engaged.
As a side note, COD is probably going to turn into some version of Sea of Fortnite Duty. Games as a service sitting in game pass being milked dry with micro transactions and constant updates making you feel you're playing an unfinished game that keeps going and going with no soul.
I'm not sure why everyone is acting like COD is a surprise. That was always the plan. They said in court during the FTC case they were doing this. They have said repeatedly and recently all first party games are going to Gamepass.
gamepass like PS Plus are rental services. Games like COD you buy not rent. So in my case unless I plan on keeping gamepass for 2yrs minimum than the benefit of adding cod is pointless.
I now officially hate Gamestop. Waited in line for 45 minutes on black friday to get the PS4 Pro RDR2 bundle with $50 gift card, only for them to tell me they don't have any. I go home, order it from their website. 5 days pass and I don't even receive an order confirmation email (to this day, I have not received a single email from them regarding that order, despite emailing them numerous times). The Pro finally gets here two days later, but no mention of a gift card. I decided to call customer service, but they said the average wait time was an hour, and I didn't have the time. So, next day I tried again at a different time, thinking it was just busy, but no, still an hour wait. I had no choice, so I waited for an hour. When I got someone, they told me (in very poor english) my gift card number over the phone rather than emailing it to me. They also said I could "get the pin at a local gamestop". Recently, I decided to use the card, and went to my local gamestop. I explained to the salesperson what had happened, and he asked me for my pin. I explained what I was told from support. He looked puzzled, but then proceeded to call support as well, the same number I called apparently, because I waited in the store for nearly another hour while he was on hold. Finally they gave him my pin number and I was able to make my purchase. The whole experience was exhausting, and if I could go back in time, I'd just buy the Pro at full price without the gift card or game from somewhere else. No wonder this company is struggling, they're just awful.
I only go to Gamestop when I pick up used games for my daughter or something. Other than that I don't bother with them.
HA! 40 usd for 76!? Got to be joking.
$30 for bfV isn’t bad might pick it up tomorrow
Idk been going to gamestop since it opened I've never had a problem, I buy my games and go, hell sometimes I go in there and chat games with the employees, i keep hearing these horror stories but i never seen or experienced them.