Well, there’s yet another headline I can’t believe I’m writing, but continuing the administration’s fascination with social media meme-ing, we have a new development that dips into video game territory. The series of events:

That’s the situation as it stands, I will update with any breaking developments.

This chain of events has nearly 20 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes. No, I do not think Trump is literally claiming credit for ending the console war during his administration. Well, I’m 80% sure.

The game development space is mostly liberal, so it has produced a lot of eye-rolling. Players, on the other hand, are more split politically, so there is some amount of guffawing about this. GameStop is capitalizing on the attention. Microsoft and Xbox have said nothing, but Microsoft President Satya Nadella has been close to the administration, like all tech giants have.

I doubt Trump himself actually knows what Halo is, but he apparently has an army of Zoomers trolling the internet for trending topics and memes (I have no doubt many are gamers). We see this a lot, especially with AI photos and videos, though dipping into pop culture occasionally results in things like copyright takedown notices. That won’t happen here.

The actual gaming news is a pretty big deal, as 5-10 years ago, much less 20, it would have seemed insane for Halo to be coming to PlayStation, but Microsoft has fully moved into a “we’re releasing all our big games and IPs everywhere” phase with its console business slowing and its desire to expand its reach to more devices, even PlayStation.

So this is…something. Worth an article? I mean, the most powerful in the government in the world is tweeting about Halo, I would argue yes, and here we are.

Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.