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Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo) When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.” 1 Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for — Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to understand, and it’s easy to fit on shelves. Retailers like it. The platform owners like it. This...
Interestingly, the trading buzz first sparked on Reddit on a forum called r/WallStreetBets. On Tuesday, January 26 the shares were boosted by Tesla CEO Musk, who tweeted âGamestonk!!â along with a link to Reddit's WallStreetBets stock trading discussion group, where he is popular as âPapa Muskâ. For the unversed, âstonksâ is a tongue-in-cheek term for stocks widely used on social media. Now, Discord has banned the Reddit forum over âhate speechâ and it has led to quite an uproar. So how did the controversy begin and who owns GameStop? Let's find out. ...