The Great Gaming Ownership Reset
How the industry is replacing ownership with permission and teaching players to call it progress.
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How to Sell a Different Game to an Existing Audience.
Sony had a State of Play yesterday.
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Take-Two removed every instance of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” from their 2025 annual report.
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What looked like harmless hype was actually a masterclass in attention extraction.
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Yesterday a man walked into the European Parliament and named the mechanism clearly enough that the industry can’t hide behind complexity anymore.
The Safety Virus: How Bureaucracy Killed Artistic Risk
You finish the game.
They Burned the House Down. Now They're Selling You Photographs of It.
The extraction model didn’t just change how games are made. It changed what you're allowed to feel when you play them.
The Controlled Demolition of AAA Gaming
You aren't fighting a culture war. You are fighting an institutional network.
They're Coming For the Emulators. They Already Came For Everything Else.
Your Phone. Their Permission.