1y ago

The New York Times Is More Gaming Company Than Newspaper – Data shows most NYT subscribers are playing games, not reading the news

kotaku.com

Thanks To Hits Like Wordle, The New York Times Is Now A Gaming Company

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1y ago

Thanks To Hits Like Wordle, The New York Times Is Now A Gaming Company

kotaku.com /new-york-times-nyt-games-wordle-connections-app-1851379895

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🤷‍♂️ if gaming helps to subsidize news coverage, that’s a good thing.
- The news coverage it’s subsidizing is… not always good. Article is a year old, but little has improved.
- Also as someone subscribed to both, the games are way cheaper. So it makes sense that more people can afford a continuous gaming subscription through them.
- ? could you elaborate?
anyone writing a story set in the distant future please make NYT the dominant video game company lol
i mean nintendo did start out as a playing card manufacturer, nokia was originally a paper pulp mill, etc.
- "Playing card" company is a bit of an understatement. Nintendo was a grey market entertainment company - playing cards were banned in Japan, and a workaround was designing the cards with those beautiful drawings instead of suits. This is also why card companies were deeply associated with the Yakuza.
  Nintendo also operated casinos and love hotels, with prostitutes. In fact, they did a lot of weird maneuvering during the launch of the Famicom to tip off the Yakuza, who wanted to keep their strong ties and get early access to the hardware.
  There's a whole book about how Nintendo and Sega had some crazy connections with the Yakuza and those shaped several projects in these companies.
  
  so, Team Rocket is the Yakuza, and Silph Co. is Nintendo? that plot in the original games was a cry for help?
  
  Interested by that book. Heard about those individual facts but want to learn more about it !
- Yeah the Nokia thing really blew my mind!!
The New York Times is fighting off Wordle look-alikes with copyright takedown notices
I cancelled my NY Times puzzle subscription as soon as that happened.
- They copyrighted an idea? The hell? Is that even possible? I thought that's a patent. Is Wordle patented?
  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Oh come on, I read the news every day! How else am I gonna win the Friday News Quiz game?
That's the power of Wordle.
- But connections is so much more fun. Wordle is a solved game unfortunately.
I really feel this lately. The news is shit. My anxiety has been high so I go straight to the NYT games app instead of scrolling through the front page.
Their next big revenue stream will be Brawndo.

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