Breaking Down The Biggest Sale In The History Of Video Games

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

After a short hiatus the gang is back and ready to dive deep into Microsoft's plan to buy Activision Blizzard. This week we're going through the Game Awards nominations....and more or less tearing them apart. We discuss how the deal came together, the future of Call of Duty exclusivity, and what it means for consolidation and unionization in the games industry.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Kotaku split screen, the show where we talk about video games one very
0:06.6	specific topic at a time, and then don't go for months without an episode. I'm one of your hosts,
0:14.7	Ethan Gatch, and joining me today are... Hi, I'm Lisa Marie. Hello, I am Michael Fahey. See, it's been so long.
0:21.7	I forgot whether or not I introduced the names and then you say hello or we just did our names.
0:25.5	I thought you'd just forgotten our names at this point.
0:29.8	It's an easy cover for both.
0:32.1	Slow newsweek, so I don't know what you guys want to talk about.
0:36.0	Oh, yeah, there was that whole thing with a, with a, nope, nope, that wasn't a thing.
0:41.6	Never mind.
0:42.2	I got nothing.
0:43.7	A lot of people died recently, like not in games, just like.
0:48.1	In general.
0:49.8	No, seriously.
0:50.7	Is that a hard topic for this week?
0:52.6	Moon night actor died, like someone else died.
0:55.3	Oh, that is so sad.
0:56.6	That is, don't let's not even get it.
0:57.8	I'm a big Moon Knight fan.
0:59.0	Yeah.
0:59.7	And he was a huge part of, he would have been a huge part of that show.
1:03.6	I don't know what they're going to do.
1:04.8	Yeah.
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