To put into context; Microsoft bought Activision/Blizzard for 69 Billion dollars. A huge portion of that was actually King.

Around 2014, over 93 million people were playing Candy Crush Saga, while revenue over a three-month period as reported by King was over $493 million. Five years after its release on mobile, the Candy Crush Saga series has received over 2.7 billion downloads, and the game has been one of the highest-grossing and most-played mobile apps in that time frame. As of September 2023, it had reached over $20 billion in revenue.

Safe to say mobile market makes a lot more money we’d be comfortable with.

I shared my arcade membership with my mom a while ago (I had gotten it included) and it put her purchases on my card. This bio-chemist (very smart lady in some specific subjects) spent over $25 on ‘micro’ transactions in a week or so. They prey on the group that just want to get things done.

Hasn’t been for a while. He was in NZ when the pandemic hit and has since made it his primary residence.

In the middle of my backswing‽

For free? Absolutely me, I knew well enough not to purchase the game, but I am curious just how bad it is.

Yeah, some youtube videos that cover basics and hiring a firm after a breech is pretty standard it feels.

Yeah, there’s this weird agism I’ve seen. Maybe they think the ‘young people’ (30 years in this case) are bragging? I just view it as someone adding their context, nothing abhorrent ¯\(ツ)/¯

Only as strong as your least paid worker.

Please give me the number of who views a 4.5h info dump a positive. I just annoy my current partner 🙃

Honestly disappointed with the combination of batch awards and probably the shortest acceptance speech timer I’ve seen. This game awards felt solely for producers and publishers, not for the people who actually made these games. I get not wanting another 8 min speech, but it left a bad taste in my mouth

Oh cool, rampancy is contagious

I desperately want a steam deck for comfy jrpg gaming. I prefer my action/adventure/FPS to be on desktop, yet also find turn based a bit slow while at my desk. Don’t have the funds, so I just hacked my vita instead haha

I work at a gaming themed brewery and I now desperately wish I had @gameale(.)com as my domain

I’m unsure if I’d say ‘focus on’, but I feel The Good Place is a good fit. Honestly funny scenes, but still hits on some heavier points. The cast is lovable, often relatable, and who can say no to Dancin’ Ted Danson‽

Just a click to initiate, no need to have an account or anything. I’d suggest grabbing the url of any recent article and give it a spin.

To add; if it hasn’t been saved yet you’ll be given an option to archive the entry itself. It takes a bit of time, but well worth it!

Regarding should have and should ‘of’; I’ve always understood it to be should’ve, which when spoken tends to keep a short vowel sound in the middle of the contraction that makes it phonetically sound like ‘of’. Bit of a bone-apple-tea.

For strategic sheep purposes

I think the downvotes (-10) at counting are assuming you mean vote Democrat. I’m guessing you meant more along the ‘blue line’?

That and I don’t watch soap operas other than S.O.A.P. It’s a very different genre, but it has been called an opera in space before, so you’ve got that haha

Edit; I also has said ‘one of the first’ so non definitive. I just meant in terms of ‘prime-time television’. It seems like people didn’t like that.

I am curious where the down votes came from. I hope no one thought I was disparaging Star Trek. I love em both, they’re just different.