Facebook Buys The Escapist for $90 Million - Update

[Snotnarok]

In other news SEGA is making Dreamcast 2, Nintendo are dropping WiiU support and going multiplatform following this they canceled Smash Brothers for all platforms except for Xbox One, Half Life 3 has been confirmed for Dreamcast 2 and EA is bringing back the 3DO with HD-DVD formatted games, ATI begins making more frequent and better drivers for their cards, Blizzard finally buffs Terran and nerfs Protoss.

 

[tippy2k2]

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR GRACIOUS NEW OVER...

"No Grandpa, I don't want to play Crazy Casino Frenzy"

Where was I? Oh yeah...I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR N

"No Mom, I don't want to play Candy Crush"

Damn it, I lost my train of thought...oh yeah, I FOR O

"I'm not going to like your fucking baby pic!! Your baby is ugly! There, we all wanted to say it!!!"

I FO

"For crying out loud the next person I see who says 'What a terrible day, nobody better talk to me!!!' on a website designed to allow people to easily talk to you is getting a punch to the God damn throat!"

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DAMN IT! NO! I Don't want to play Mafia Wars!!!

 

[Fiairflair]

I'll be honest, you got me at first. But the bit about cash bonuses gave it away. I just can't see facebook doing that. Then I noticed the Rolling Stone bit and the $90 million sale price.

 

[WashAran]

Wow, that was lazy!

 

[Falsename]

Ah.... Aha.... AHAHA..... AAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

 

[Soulrender95]

Eh kinda dull if your going to be this lazy why bother...I mean seriously you could have gone with
Darren Aronofsky to direct new episodes of jimquisition in preparation for the epic biopic "Thank god for me"

DA: I believe in the work Jim does, he's a talented guy and I really wanted to capture the moment where Jim waggles his dragon tongue dildo on camera for everyone in the world to see.

...

also this needs to happen. for real.

 

[the darknees abyss]

lol love you guys happy April fools

 

[Thaluikhain]

Oh man, think of all the horrible changes that will happen now that Facebook is in charge. Ads plastered all over the place with auto-playing videos. Click-bait articles and I bet they'll even put a few sponsored stories in the news column.

Facebook buying the Escapist is truly an atrocity.

I know, right? They'll probably have lots of articles about Candy Crush, and be very dubious in what content they moderate.

 

[Nowhere Man]

You lost me at the "Rolling Stone" of game journalism. :/

 

[IceForce]

Oh man, think of all the horrible changes that will happen now that Facebook is in charge. Ads plastered all over the place with auto-playing videos. Click-bait articles and I bet they'll even put a few sponsored stories in the news column.

Facebook buying the Escapist is truly an atrocity.

Well, when you put it like that...

 

[Karadalis]

BTW guys.. whom should i send my deathtreats to? Do you have a certain person whos job it is to read through them?

 

[james.sponge]

wow, that was bad. It it was true though we would experience advertisement armageddon

 

[IceForce]

It it was true though we would experience advertisement armageddon

Worse than it already is? Such a thing is not possible, surely.

 

[Elijin]

Facebook Buys The Escapist for $90 Million




but it's clear now that Facebook is set on path to expand its portfolio beyond pictures, videos and VR to actual game journalism.

The real giveaway that it was a hoax

 

[The Great JT]

What, $2 billion for Oculus Rift, only $90 million for The Escapist? What's the matter, ARE WE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, FACEBOOK?!

 

[Subbies]

Obvious joke is obvious, but I actually thought that the fake layout was kind of neat. Would be nice if we could have the option of enabling something like it.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Thanks for making me burst out laughing in the middle of my office and getting a bunch of weird looks.

 

[tacotrainwreck]

Ha! I like it! I can't wait until next week where the Jimquisition will be interrupted midway through by auto-playing videos of my friends' children eating bugs off the sidewalk. Brilliant!

 

[FinalDream]

April Fools day, the one day the internet thinks it's funny, oh wait that's every day...