3,200 jobs. Five studios out the door. And a CEO who opened her memo by admitting the business is, in her own words, "not healthy." That's not spin from a leaked internal doc some outlet had to fight for — Sharma posted the whole thing publicly, on Xbox's own newsroom and on X, on a Monday morning, to a team that was...

We are gathered here today — no, wait, that's too morbid. Let me try again. Sony just scheduled a eulogy eighteen months out, filed it as a corporate blog post, and had a Senior Director sign it. January 2028: that's the date physical disc production ends for new PlayStation games. Most deaths don't come with a press...

Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series and the Insert Coin gaming arc. Tim Sweeney gave an interview to PC Gamer last week pitching a grand unified theory of gaming he's calling "Team Open." Sounds great. Also sounds familiar. The pitch is that platforms should connect their social graphs, economies should...

Let me explain — and to start with, no, I'm not thrilled it's starting at $1,049. But I'm also not surprised, and the discourse around it is missing the actual story so badly it's almost impressive. When Valve announced the Steam Machine back in November 2025, the internal target was reportedly around $749. That was the...

Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series and the Insert Coin gaming arc — because this one started as a game and ended as a surveillance pipeline, so it earned both. Remember Pokémon GO? Summer of 2016. People were walking into traffic, trespassing in cemeteries, and wandering into strangers' backyards — all to catch...

Fair warning: this one runs long. But this isn't a story of a few years of spectacular fraud and bad decisions — this is decades of slow, deliberate erosion. Each age built on the last. The length is earned. If you're just here for the Valve loot box situation, scroll to The Reckoning. If you want to understand why it...