1/31/22: Winner - Bungie Getting the Bag / Loser - EA Probably Overextending Again

Modern Console Warfare

On This Week's Episode the eternal consolidation of the video game industry continues, as Sony buys Bungie to stick it to Microsoft, and the New York Times purchases current flash-in-the-pan Wordle. The latest NFT bungle comes from an unlikely studio. EA decides to give it another shot at overextending a beloved studio with too many projects. And we discuss what the hell a Call of Duty movie with Dwayne the Rock Johnson even looks like. Plus, a eulogy for Hyper Scape, gone too soon.

This Week's News Stories:

Sony buys Bungie, tries to feel relevant: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion

NYT Buys Wordle for some millions of bucks: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-times-free-word-game-acquisition

Respawn is going all in on Star Wars: https://kotaku.com/star-wars-announcement-2022-jedi-fallen-order-apex-lege-1848416767

Halo TV Series: https://www.cnet.com/news/halo-tv-series-gets-explosive-first-trailer/

Rock the Dwayne Johnson is in “a video game movie,” allegedly COD: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/01/the-rocks-mysterious-video-game-movie-is-reportedly-call-of-duty

It Takes Two getting movie adaptation: https://www.destructoid.com/it-takes-two-next-in-long-line-video-game-adaptations-film-tv/

RIP Hyperscape: https://www.onmsft.com/news/hyper-scape-video-game-to-completely-shut-down-soon

NFT BS of the Week: Worms this Time: https://kotaku.com/worms-team17-nfts-metaworms-scam-blockchain-1848452059

This Week's Scores:

Sony 12

Bungie 20

Hyperscape: -7

Ubisoft --2

Aggro Crab 20

Team 17 --19

Mr. Wardle: 18

New York Times 11

Resapwn 6

EA: - Better Hope you get purchased by sony and -23

Halo TV Series -4

Paramount Plus -1

The rock 6

COD 1

Hazelight 8

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