TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. Though that’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then

No, not at all, generally not a good sign whatsoever (unless you’re wall st apparently). I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.

The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?

Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, just trying to rationalise

Hmm, had to look up who these guys were

Apparently they own XDA and Android Police too, which haven’t gone entirely to shit

I’ll tentatively put the pitchfork away

Oh that’s actually pretty sad to hear—I did not realise they had new owners

I cannot wrap my head around why the game industry hasn’t already unionised massively—I hear horror story after horror story and everyone working in the industry seems to have convinced themselves they’re special and it won’t happen to them

It’s EA, this is what they do

I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse

Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more

If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition

I don’t get why these articles never seem to address that the main thing about the steam deck is the price (and obviously performance and quality at that price)—nothing will rival it unless it hits the same price point.

This new handheld looks interesting for sure, but if it’s priced like all the other steam deck alternatives, it’ll be as successful as the rest of them