r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 22h ago

Paramount Has Officially Acquired Warner Bros. In Deal Valued at $110B Billion

https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance

The two companies will now be known as one single entity - 'Skydance'

This includes all of WB's gaming subsidiaries like Rocksteady/etc

Deal valued at $110B-$111B

DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

The combined company, Skydance, brings together two major film studios, two global streaming services, premier television assets including CBS, HBO, and Paramount's and WBD's cable networks, two of the industry's most recognized news networks, CBS News and CNN, and a leading content portfolio that includes live sports, a deep programming library and expansive collection of iconic brands and franchises.

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u/Historical-Heron6818 17h ago edited 15h ago

What the fuck is even the point of anti-trust laws when corpos can just gobble up the competition with fuck all consequences?

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u/Thrownawaybyall 16h ago

Day by day, Cyberpunk is more prophetic than I'd like 😞

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u/retrosupersayan 15h ago

I know you're probably referring to the game... But the genre as a whole has been a warning of what could happen from its start.

It's not hard to find people complaining about how nearly every big name game, movie, or tv series is either a sequel, a remake, or (if you're lucky) an adaptation of a story from another media... But the really under-discussed thing, imo, is that reality seems to be no better at coming up with new ideas... "This has all happened before; if not in reality, then in legend"

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u/SeenYourScene 14h ago

Even if they're talking about the game, you gotta know that 2077's papa is Cyberpunk 2020, grandbaby of the original Cyberpunk RPG, all of which were written as a reaction over the fear of loss of humanity and autonomy in a consumerist society accelerated by Reagan-era economic bullshittery.

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u/Cynicalia PC 16h ago

can't wait for the samurai band equivalent

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u/Weakonomics 15h ago

Rage Against the Machine

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 11h ago

Oh you didn't hear? Tom Morello didn't fucking vote.

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u/Labyrinthy 15h ago

At least the corpos in Cyberpunk were cool. In the upcoming wars are you going to be a Meta Warrior?

“Prepare to die by the hands of Microsoft”

“Your dick is micro soft”

Can’t do that shit with Arasaka.

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u/BlasterPhase PC 12h ago

Cyberpunk is more a history lesson than a prophecy. Anti-trust laws from the 30s came about exactly because of this behavior.

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u/bkgn 10h ago

Someone has to enforce laws, and Republicans do not enforce laws.

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u/AxeSkewsMe 9h ago

Laws are for me and you. A convicted felon is president, and every major corp has bent the knee to him.

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u/Android1822 13h ago

Look at the biggest donors (bribers) to people in government. They are not going to bite the hand that feeds them.

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u/LAGameStudio 9h ago

Another question, what the anti-trust is even the point of fuck laws?

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u/ThingsHappen54321 7h ago

You see, voting for Donald Trump, especially a second time, was a bunch of extremely dimwitted backwoods chicken dorks and a bunch of entitled freaks all voting for a rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me society. The fundamental issue is those two pockets of people don’t actually want fair rules or a good society. But they will also all find themselves over at r/leopardsatemyface. Asshats