Nintendo Exploitation? Sony’s In-Game Adverts?? A Streets Of Rage Movie???
2The skeletons of the past continue to haunt the present-day video games industry, and old habits tend to die hard ….
00:00 - Hello again!
00:48 - Nintendo accused of breaking the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
04:25 - National Labor Relations Board vote AGAINST Activision Blizzard
07:46 - Netflix loses share value, but doubles down on video game investment
09:33 - Buyout rumours cause a rise in share prices for Ubisoft
10:49 - Sony copy Microsoft and want to add in-game adverts to free to play games
13:19 - EVE Online increases the cost of subscription for the first time in 20 years
14:48 - A Street of Rage film may be in the works
16:05 - It Takes Two’s movie and TV adaptations will involve Dwayne Johnson’s production company
Axios’s original report into Nintendo’s breaches of the NLRA - https://www.axios.com/nintendo-nlrb-complaint-3bb227c7-40c3-40c5-9578-5190e595a00e.html
Kotaku’s follow-up article about the labour problems at Nintend0 of America - https://kotaku.com/nintendo-america-switch-employee-treatment-unionize-nlr-1848828975
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