Forgive me, I seem to have unearthed an atrophied rind of hope. Game Informer bought Game Informer. Giant Bomb bought Giant Bomb. They seem to be…happy? Tim “Ben” Onion bought his namesake. Jeremy Parish mentioned wanting to buy 1UP and got inundated. I mean…kinda feels like something’s happening? - ThreadSky

joerybicki.com • 17 days ago

Forgive me, I seem to have unearthed an atrophied rind of hope.

Game Informer bought Game Informer. Giant Bomb bought Giant Bomb. They seem to be…happy?

Tim “Ben” Onion bought his namesake. Jeremy Parish mentioned wanting to buy 1UP and got inundated. I mean…kinda feels like something’s happening?

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brendansinclair.bsky.social•16 days ago

GamesBeat, too.

ditman.bsky.social•17 days ago

Shout out to https://defector.com

tacitvrn.bsky.social•17 days ago

1UP had the best gaming podcasts.

donnyg.bsky.social•16 days ago

Did they put out Broken Pixels?

tacitvrn.bsky.social•16 days ago

Yes! I had forgotten about Broken Pixels. Shane Bettenhausen and Seanbaby roasting bad video games. Good times.

donnyg.bsky.social•15 days ago

I remember downloading them to iTunes and watching them incessantly.

oldbo.bsky.social•17 days ago

Game Informer is not employee owned.

jaspers47.bsky.social•17 days ago

Finally, ethics in game journalism.

lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social•17 days ago

game informer did not buy game informer! they were bought by an indie studio named gunzilla games (though they seem to have vowed to be pretty hands-off)

forrestwithtwors.bsky.social•17 days ago

Game Informer has editorial independence but they aren’t employee owned. They are owned by a Web3 parent company partially funded by NFTs.

octoberbird.bsky.social•16 days ago

They’ll last a year

nadiaoxford.bsky.social•17 days ago

And Blood God being independent for 5+ years!

agape.bsky.social•17 days ago

Is seizing the means of production actually happening?

messyepicure.bsky.social•17 days ago

Does it count as seizing them if you buy them?

daoist.bsky.social•17 days ago

since money is made up nonsense, 🤷🏾‍♀️

agape.bsky.social•17 days ago

If the means of production end up in the workers' hands, i'm not fussy about how they got there. That said, this approach is potentially far less bloody than the alternative, so I'll chalk it up as a W.

lordtired.bsky.social•17 days ago

It doesn't mean it ends up in workers' hands. It means the means of production ends up in the hands of the company leadership; as opposed to the hands of sleazy "investors" who are only interested in stealing the money.

And that is good.

ashleylatke.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yeah sure. It’s the least violent way to do it and perhaps more sustainable if you work to unionize and profit share asap

hoogathy.bsky.social•16 days ago

joerybicki.com•16 days ago

That’s right, I forgot the GI staff didn’t actually buy the brand. But they made that resurrection happen and that’s still pretty frickin awesome.

knightattack.bsky.social•16 days ago

So....

When's OPM coming back Joe?

octoberbird.bsky.social•16 days ago

That Game Informer news should have a biiiiig asterisk on it

djparticle.com•16 days ago

More accurate to say these entities are their own things again, like they originally were. Same is true of EB Games in Canada, which is breaking off from GameStop after 20 years.

bluetotheback.bsky.social•16 days ago

wait... is the Game Informer Show coming back to a podcast feed near me? 🥹

eternalcatwar.bsky.social•17 days ago

it’s great how various employees are massively better at running companies than PE hyper-shitheads

warlight.bsky.social•17 days ago

The power of passion, baby. It’s easy to forget that good things start with people who are hyped up about it, and not by the rich fat fuck that paid for the rights to said passion.

derpyforcongress.bsky.social•17 days ago

That's because the extract maximum short term profit type of PE companies are designed to, well, extract meximum short term profit. Employee-owners and investors who have a long term interest are going to take steps to try to ensure that their companies are set for the long run instead.

shaderaygun.bsky.social•17 days ago

Don’t forget Second Wind coming out of The Escapist’s collapse.

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