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Format versus context: Can a YouTuber make it on TV?

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Hanna Kahlert
YouTube star MrBeast is making recent headlines for his video upload experiment with X , and now a potential partnership with Amazon Prime Video for a new reality series. The competition to turn the popular YouTuber into an audience draw for other platforms is on –but can a star in one place, still be a star anywhere else? This would not be the first time an entertainment company has tried to convert a popular social media figure.
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Are the short-term benefits of rereleases luring big games companies into a long-term trap?

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Perry Gresham
Ever since the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One almost a decade ago, the games industry has found itself in an era of remasters. The shift towards re-releases is clear, with cross-gen ports of Diablo III and Grand Theft Auto V, remastered collections like Halo MCC and Mass Effect, and ground-up remakes of classic titles such as Resident Evil 1-3 and the GTA Trilogy.
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