A is X: A Nintendo Podcast - You report to me now Mr. Kotick

You report to me now Mr. Kotick

01/24/22 • 48 min

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Activision Blizzard now belongs to Microsoft. It's a big deal. While every other podcast will pontificate over the details of which games go where, and whether this is a move that will even be allowed by the government, this Pinecone broadcast aims to hit a different topic of conversation. People. Will the work culture be changed just because based Uncle Phil is now in charge? Is it naive to think that one large corpo eating another is somehow something that should be cheered on? What about the creative aspect of all this, will the art suffer? The Captain weighs in.

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