Microsoft Is Gutting the Video Game Industry
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Nathan Grayson on the tech giant’s destructive impact on the gaming world.
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Microsoft Is Gutting the Video Game Industry | Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss the latest round of Microsoft layoffs and how the company’s ambition to remake the video game industry around its streaming service has had significant consequences.
Nathan Grayson is a co-founder of Aftermath and author of Stream Big: The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Screen.
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People walk past the front entrance to a Microsoft office building on 8th Avenue in New York City on June 24, 2025.
(Gary Hershorn / Getty Images)Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss the latest round of Microsoft layoffs and how the company’s ambition to remake the video game industry around its streaming service has had significant consequences.
Nathan Grayson is a co-founder of Aftermath and author of Stream Big: The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Screen.
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The SpaceX IPO Gives Elon Musk Even More Power w/ Sean O’Kane / Tech Won’t Save Us
SpaceX is finally going public, and it’s bad news for anyone who wants to rein in Elon Musk. Sean O’Kane joins Paris Marx to discuss the flimsy sci-fi ideas Elon Musk is using to justify the company’s massive valuation and the way corporate governance rules are shifting to give him even more power.
Sean O’Kane is a senior reporter at TechCrunch.
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