Video Game Logic Podcast Episode 301: VGL Game Club: Coffee Talk

This week Shrink & Rage return with a quicker game club and then catch up on a backlog of news

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Show Highlights & Timestamps

• April Gameclub: Coffee Talk 7:20

• Next Gameclub: Persona 5 38:05

• Cloud Gaming Blocks Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Merger? 40:15

• Live service keeps killing modestly successful multiplayer games, and it doesn't have to be this way 53:57

• Atari Announces Acquisition of More than 100 PC and Console Titles from the 80s and 90s 1:03:20

• 80% of game workers interested in four-day week, Skillsearch survey finds 1:15:49

• Community Corner 1:21:06

  • Apple’s iOS “walled garden” doesn’t break antitrust laws, appeals court affirms

  • Fan unwittingly scores new Magic: The Gathering cards early before Wizards of the Coast gets 19th century on his ass: 'The Pinkertons took everything

News

• Microsoft/Activision Blizzard Merger Blocked?

The Gamer: Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger Could Get Blocked For Ten Years

The Gamer: Why Did The CMA Block The Microsoft Activision Blizzard Merger FAQ

Games Industry Biz: Microsoft and Activision Blizzard won't take no for an answer | This Week in Business

 

• Live Service Keeps Killing Games

PC Gamer: Live service keeps killing modestly successful multiplayer games, and it doesn't have to be this way

 

• Atari Game Acquisition

Globe Newswire: Atari Announces Acquisition of More than 100 PC and Console Titles from the 80s and 90s

 

• Game Workers Want a Shorter Workweek?

Games Industry Biz: 80% of game workers interested in four-day week, Skillsearch survey finds

 

Community Corner

• Apple Walled Garden Upheld

Ars Technica: Apple’s iOS “walled garden” doesn’t break antitrust laws, appeals court affirms

 

• Pinkertons Take Magic the Gathering Cards

PC Gamer: Fan unwittingly scores new Magic: The Gathering cards early before Wizards of the Coast gets 19th century on his ass: 'The Pinkertons took everything.'