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Research Links
World Economic Forum: By 2030, "You will own nothing. And you'll be happy!"
• World Economic Forum: By 2030, "You w...
https://web.archive.org/web/201611251...
Gamefly commercial
• Funny Gamefly Commercial
Unity changes UpperEchelon
• The Unity Disaster Gets WORSE IronS...
Ubisoft Respond To Backlash, Insist They Don't Delete Players' Games On Inactive Accounts
• Ubisoft Respond To Backlash, Insist T...
Game Pass review from @MajorBen
• What is Game Pass? Is it Worth Buying...
Games as a Service: What does it mean for indies?
https://mcvuk.com/developmentnews/ga...
MercedesBenz earned $US1 billion from incar subscription services last year
https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercede...
Automakers Turn to Subscription Plans
https://www.capitalone.com/cars/learn...
Sega channel
https://segaretro.org/Sega_Channel
Satellaview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satella...
Gameline for Atari
https://www.ataricompendium.com/archi...
History of cable TV
https://seatup.com/blog/historyofca...
Steam Subscriber Agreement
https://store.steampowered.com/subscr...
Unity promised no royalties
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/theres...
Leaked Xbox hardware
https://www.wired.com/story/ftcmicro...
Amazon adding ads to Prime Video in 2024 unless you pay $2.99 extra
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/...
Cult of the Lamb devs threaten to delete their game
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