At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.
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The key thing to understand about this is that it is completely unnecessary. This is a corporation with basically infinite money. They don't have to destroy 30+ year studios to save their bottom line. They're doing this because they are evil.
Sony, Microsoft, and Embracer have collectively destroyed the AAA games industry through sheer incompetence. It's wild that the people responsible for these decisions will likely be rewarded for "cost cutting" or some equivalent bullshit.
There's a common mythology that those with wealth and power must have "deserved" that wealth or power: they must have been smart, or good, or kind. But it's just that. A myth. They'll keep making bad decisions that make money hurting the lives of their own workers until we wrestle that axe BACK.
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off.
Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening.
Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
United Videogame Workers-CWA
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
Seems to me that @outsidexbox.bsky.social is going to outlast the Xbox brand itself at this point.
Fascinating to me that so many people at Xbox/Microsoft are paid and have spent so much money to take a POWERHOUSE from the Xbox 360 era to...whatever the hell it is now.
