{"id":634,"date":"2026-05-09T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/gamestop-wants-ebay-nintendo-confirms-switch-2-price-hike-and-union-boss-says-ea-buyout-is-a-national-security-risk-patch-notes-51\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:44:17","slug":"gamestop-wants-ebay-nintendo-confirms-switch-2-price-hike-and-union-boss-says-ea-buyout-is-a-national-security-risk-patch-notes-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/gamestop-wants-ebay-nintendo-confirms-switch-2-price-hike-and-union-boss-says-ea-buyout-is-a-national-security-risk-patch-notes-51\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop wants eBay, Nintendo confirms Switch 2 price hike, and union boss says EA buyout is a national security risk &#8211; Patch Notes #51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ask La Gaffe source note:<\/strong> Official signal from Game Developer. Filed under <em>14 Game Design \u2014 Play Lab<\/em> for the 1337 \/ Ask La Gaffe Creative Media Academy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plus: Xbox ditches Copilot AI and layoffs at 2K studio 31st Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Original source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/gamesstop-wants-ebay-nintendo-confirms-switch-2-price-hike-and-union-boss-says-ea-buyout-is-a-national-security-risk-patch-notes-51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Game Developer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"alg-source-disclaimer\"><em>This post is an attributed source pointer and short excerpt, not a full republication of the original article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Xbox ditches Copilot AI and layoffs at 2K studio 31st Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[44,215,139,216,213,214,43,141],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14-game-design-play-lab","tag-44","tag-14-game-design-play-lab","tag-ask-la-gaffe","tag-game-design","tag-game-design-industry-publication","tag-game-developer","tag-official-source","tag-purple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asklagaffe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}