Gaming Briefs Wearing Boxers: December 18th, 2025

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 Another week, another attempt to keep up with all of it. 

Steam Sale


                It’s that time again, the time of year where your wallet gets destroyed by the controlling force of the season: The Winter Steam Sale.
                Let us say the Steam Sale Prayer to get us through this tough time:

"I do not need to buy anything, My Backlog is pretty full, Dude that price is perfect though... Shit, alright just this one. ... and that one. Amen."

               Abandon All Hope Those Who Purchase Here

Arcade 1Up shuts down.



                Novelty home arcade company Arcade1Up announced they were ceasing operation, with “select assets,” being purchased by toy company Basic Fun!

                I have a couple of these, ( The Simpsons Deluxe, Mortal Kombat II, and TMNT Barcade) and they’re alright, but after monitoring how they handled things the last few years, I can’t say this development is all that surprising. Between 30-40% price hikes in the same couple of cabinets they just kept re-releasing,extending into more Bar centric cabs (Big Buck Hunter, Wheel of Fortune, Slot machines, Photo Booths, Claw Machines), and their Infinity Game Board the company, in my opinion, lost it’s initial audience and didn’t really pick up another. This was enough that even keeping up with news, I didn’t know they had a Time Crisis cabinet because nobody I followed who would normally talk about these things didn’t either.

                From my end, while I’m glad I got to live the childhood dream of having an arcade in my home, I think I’ll stick to playing them on MAME or modding one of the cabinets I have going forward.

 

Warner Bros. Rejects Paramount’s hostile takeover bid.

                In this ongoing story of Warner Discovery’s sale, they’ve rejected Paramounts’s 118bn (BILLION) bid to purchase, offering $30 per share directly to shareholders instead in a hostile bid to get Netflix’s.

                This story will continue to be something we have to hear about ad nauseum.

Story from the Hollywood Reporter

The AUDACITY Of Bungie

                Bungie, famed makers of Halo and Destiny, announced the release date for their upcoming PVPVE extraction shooter Marathon after a previously derided beta and lawsuit involving art assets.

                In the press release they state the upcoming game will be released for a price of $39.99US. Make of that what you will but considering they want this to be a live service from out the gate, seems like a bitter ask, after the games already had couple of previously mentioned PR problems, and a lot of goodwill seems to have been lost from the last decade. It’s already got an uphill struggle for a game that, from seeing opinions all around, very few people seem to want.

               Bungie ViDoc to go over more of their questionable decisions.

                That’s all I got today, now excuse me while I buy some regrets on Steam. - Mega

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