{"id":11240,"date":"2021-03-18T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2021-03-21T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:33:17","slug":"the-old-game-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/18\/the-old-game-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Game Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/facing-post-trump-slowdown-new-york-times-eyes-24100-billion-games-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Bloomberg via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facing Post-Trump Slowdown, New York Times Eyes $100 Billion Games Market<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Gerry Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/04\/20\/pageoneplus\/20ITT_crossword_palmer\/20ITT_crossword_palmer-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Four new games, appearing on selected days, will accompany the crossword and KenKen in our print edition.\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; The most searched-for terms on the New York Times website last year weren\u2019t \u201cTrump\u201d or \u201cBiden\u201d or even \u201ccoronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were \u201ccrosswords\u201d and \u201cSpelling Bee,\u201d the name of the Times\u2019s online word game \u2014 part of the newspaper\u2019s attempt to grab a bigger piece of the $100 billion market for mobile games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Times is under pressure lately to diversify away from news. With Donald Trump\u2019s chaotic presidency over \u2014\u00a0and the riveting events of 2020 in the rearview mirror \u2014\u00a0the newspaper\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-11-05\/new-york-times-profit-beats-estimates-with-subscription-gains\" target=\"_blank\">has warned<\/a>\u00a0that subscriber\u00a0gains won\u2019t continue at the rate they did last year. So the company is looking to games to help maintain its momentum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/facing-post-trump-slowdown-new-york-times-eyes-24100-billion-games-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bloomberg via MSN Facing Post-Trump Slowdown, New York Times Eyes $100 Billion Games Market by Gerry Smith (Bloomberg) &#8212; The most searched-for terms on the New York Times website last year weren\u2019t \u201cTrump\u201d or \u201cBiden\u201d or even \u201ccoronavirus.\u201d They were \u201ccrosswords\u201d and \u201cSpelling Bee,\u201d the name of the Times\u2019s online word game \u2014 part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}